Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An exploration and appraisal programme prepared for 1993/94 involves spudding a well in the JX satellite in November — the first exploration well in the area for some 20 years — and drilling two appraisal wells in the FS and WX satellites early next year . |
| 2 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 3 | Under this third prohibition , therefore , a marriage between a stepson and his stepmother was void , but the Marriage ( prohibited Degrees of Relationship ) Act 1986 has provided an exception . |
| 4 | The Chamber of the People of the Federal Assembly had on May 30 failed to endorse a resolution ( which had already been passed by the Chamber of Nations ) requesting that the names of all former StB agents be published . |
| 5 | I mean you do get more than forty pee to do a parcel . |
| 6 | Compared to previous years 1993 has seen a flurry of activity , with a medley of reports and debates on issues such as the economic impacts of hosting international facilities , returns on research and development spending , and various reviews of government expenditure , including the funding of the Government 's own research facilities ( see related item on Warren Spring , p4 ) . |
| 7 | The New Delhi High Court on Sept. 2 intervened to quash an application by the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) , which was seeking powers to pursue information on alleged pay-offs related to the 1986 Bofors armaments deal [ see pp. 35336 ; 35382 ] . |
| 8 | And as Gail Sheehy , author of Passages ( available in libraries ) , points out , the run up to 30 seems to inspire a yearning for more , no matter what you already have . |
| 9 | Brinson , before taking over the Gulbenkian Foundation in London in 1972 had chaired an arts committee of the Foundation , set up to discuss and provide financial help to the performing arts , and particularly to dance , which had had , in his words ‘ a raw deal ’ . |
| 10 | After being educated in private schools he was apprenticed to a mechanical engineer , and before the age of twenty-one had attained a position of responsibility in the works . |
| 11 | The account he had written of his experiences at Waimea on 18 January 1985 had won a prize . |
| 12 | Twenty-two patients complained of angina ( 16 with Grade 1/2 using the New York Heart Association classification ) , 5 had cardiac dyspnoea ( all Grade 2 ) , and 2 had suffered a reinfarction within the first year period . |
| 13 | , Paul ( 1770–1844 ) , manufacturing silversmith , was baptized in St Marylebone , London , 28 October 1770 , one of several children of Thomas Storr ( died 1803 ) , a silver-chaser who by 1788 had become a victualler , and his wife Sarah . |
| 14 | The Junior Club is thriving with up to 35 members while the senior section is smaller with 10 to 15 members but 2 have completed a leadership course . |
| 15 | The Junior Club is thriving with up to 35 members while the senior section is smaller with 10 to 15 members but 2 have completed a leadership course . |
| 16 | In early 1964 , however , relations worsened again when the Six failed to adopt a scheme , known as the ‘ Mansholt Plan ’ to advance more rapidly on the CAP . |
| 17 | The Six agreed to draft a treaty on these lines , but as a compromise de Gaulle was asked to accept that the Atlantic alliance with America should be safeguarded and that ‘ Community co-operation ’ on economic issues in the EEC should continue to be developed . |
| 18 | Macedonia , which had declared a state of emergency on Aug. 4 , on Aug. 7 decided to hold a referendum on independence on Sept. 8 . |
| 19 | ( Meanwhile , Mitsotakis was reported on June 26 to have rejected a proposal from Milosevic for a " Yugoslav-Greek confederation " . ) |
| 20 | Guardian angels had survived the Reformation , though they led a less secure existence than in the Catholic Church , which in 1621 had decreed a festival of guardian angels , to be celebrated annually on 2nd October . |
| 21 | BY HIS DECISION TO SEPARATE THE COURT from the machinery of government , Napoleon III had erected a barrier against all court influence on the making of policy . |
| 22 | At his election Celestine III had inherited a college with only twelve masters out of a college of thirty-five . |
| 23 | III does produce a material product and the workers in that department do provide surplus labour and thus surplus-value . |
| 24 | By the end of the century , however , trade unionism had been virtually eliminated from agriculture , following the determined resistance of farmers , who in 1874 had instituted a lock-out in East Anglia which effectively broke Arch 's union . |
| 25 | Two years later Harris and his wife Mary became residents of the Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution for Aged Freemasons in Croydon ; he had been an active Freemason since 1818 , and in 1849 had published a set of designs for lodge tracing boards , which became standard for many years . |
| 26 | The changes in the Soviet Union since the arrival in power of Gorbachev in 1984 and its abolition at the end of 1991 have left a number of subjects for scrutiny in the economic field . |
| 27 | Valerie conducted a survey of parents in the village and has found that 30 children would definitely want to attend the school , and another 26 have expressed an interest . |
| 28 | There are also diamonds strewn around the landscape : collecting 100 earns Turry a continue-play . |
| 29 | Simms maintained his silence on the reason for his withdrawal , and in 1842 refused to give an interview to R. R. Madden [ q.v. ] , then writing his history of the United Irishmen . |
| 30 | The English poll tax returns of 1377 , 1379 and 1381 have left a wealth of documentation , mainly in the form of indentures recording the number of 1377 tax-payers by vill and detailed rolls for 1379 and 1381 listing the names , assessments and often the occupational details and relationships of the tax-payers . |