Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an increase in claims , especially against fire and damage to council owned property has forced MMI to suspend all payments of claims . |
| 2 | Currently , DVI operates at compression ratios of around 160:1 allowing 72 minutes of full motion , full screen video to be stored on a CD-ROM . |
| 3 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 4 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 5 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | The Merchant Shipping ( Oil Pollution ) Act 1971 imposes civil liability upon the owner of a ship carrying a cargo of persistent oil in bulk for escape or discharge of persistent oil from the ship . |
| 7 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 8 | To this end it is creating a universal type for Cobol ‘ 97 to enable any message to be sent or any method to be invoked . |
| 9 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 10 | Section 6.1 encourages pro-active handling of home claims in particular to direct a policyholder to tradesman or suppliers with whom we have local or national arrangements . |
| 11 | A potential failure of contraception had been recognised by 171 patients : 93 reported a split or leaking condom ; 13 reported a condom coming off during intercourse ; 32 admitted inconsistent use of condoms ; 32 reported forgetting to take contraceptive pills or taking antibiotics concurrently with the pill ; and one reported a late injection of medroxyprogesterone acetate . |
| 12 | CorVision Version 5.0 produces commercial applications in ANSI C source code and is designed to enable users to build client-server applications using MS-DOS or Windows-based personal computers as clients with a variety of Unix servers . |
| 13 | To discourage and prevent unjust and criminal practices , and to make provision for the punishment of those who indulge in them , ss. 206–11 of the Insolvency Act 1986 make stringent provisions for company fraud and deception . |
| 14 | Although s.16 of the SEA 1934 covers certain forms of insider trading , the most important legislative provision is s.10 of the SEA 1934 from which Rule 10b-5 is derived . |
| 15 | Chapter Eight contains further mention of its application in dealing with high-status people and conflict . |
| 16 | The Town and Country Planning Acts 1947 and 1971 place official control over the use to which land and property are put . |
| 17 | The Series 3000 incorporates automatic calibration of wavelength , transmission and absorbance zeros together with automatic programmes for absorbance ratioing and peak seeking . |
| 18 | In the view of the C E C motion three one eight has wide implications for a transport industry as a whole and alternate safety measures need to be examined . |
| 19 | In part to complement the broad-based approach towards co-ordination developed within the CATS , the Inner City Initiative was launched in 1986 to increase Private-sector investment in small urban areas that were subject to high unemployment rates . |
| 20 | Example 75 illustrates various ways of exploiting this kind of harmonic versatility : In ( a ) the accompaniment is in archaic-sounding fourths and fifths , giving a slight feeling of organum . |
| 21 | Close inspection reveals that mean smoothing creates relatively large residuals in months adjacent to the strikingly atypical months , where perhaps common sense would suggest otherwise ; if the percentage in February 1985 represents some kind of error , for example , then the less resistant mean has spread this error over into the adjacent months . |
| 22 | Kurdish parties had agreed on Aug. 30 to suspend further talks with the Iraqi government pending " clarification " on parts of the autonomy agreement [ see also p. 38407 ] . |
| 23 | Precedent 2 tackles two aspects of this issue . |
| 24 | Senior officials of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) meeting in Finland on May 12 agreed that consent from the FRY was not needed to approve decisions on Yugoslavia and its former republics [ for April CSCE meeting on FRY see p. 38848 ] . |
| 25 | Section 310 Companies Act 1985 renders any modification of these rights void . |
| 26 | The Companies Acts of 1948 to 1985 make certain requirements regarding the content and presentation of company accounts . |
| 27 | American critics of the $25 billion buy-out of RJR Nabisco in 1988–89 lamented this treatment of a ‘ fine old American company ’ , yet conveniently forgot that it had only been formed in 1985 when R.J. Reynolds merged with Nabisco Brands , which in turn had only been formed in 1981 when Nabisco merged with Standard Brands . |
| 28 | Section 674 deems that income for tax purposes to be the income of Mr A. The income of £50,000 is amalgamated with the £100,000 and Mr A is assessed accordingly . |
| 29 | The Defective Premises Act 1972 contains two provisions in relation to the landlord 's position . |
| 30 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of April 2 reported serious unrest in the strategic northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif . |