Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning from exile to head the newly formed Brazilian Communist Party ( PCB ) , Prestes was imprisoned for nine years in 1935 for leading an unsuccessful uprising against the dictator Getúlio Vargas ( 1930-45 ) and on his release was elected to the Senate with the highest personal vote of any candidate . |
| 2 | Mynott was jailed for life in 1980 for murdering a 54-year-old man near his home in Hemel Hempstead , Herts . |
| 3 | Only one prisoner is known to have escaped unaided in 1875 after scaling the 20 ft boundary wall . |
| 4 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 5 | Each time it looked as though he was going to make his breakthrough — in 1982 after his Commonwealth dead heat with Allan Wells , or in 1984 after making the Los Angeles Olympic final , or again in 1985 after winning the European Indoor — he just did n't get his act together . |
| 6 | President Yang Shangkun and an entourage which included Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , returned to Beijing on July 12 after completing a two-week state visit to Morocco , Tunisia , and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 7 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 8 | The statement followed calls from the leadership of Apap — which is not affiliated to the Trades Union Congress — for fresh negotiations , after members on Wednesday voted by two-to-one against accepting the 9 per cent proposal . |
| 9 | Duffy won a black ball fight in the opener and took the second frame 62–40 before winning the next two easily with breaks of 35 and 57 in the third and 92 in the fourth . |
| 10 | But Hall began to dominate , leading 6-0 and then 9-4 before taking the second game to level the match . |
| 11 | But Hall began to dominate , leading 6-0 and then 9-4 before taking the second game . |
| 12 | Ralph Stanley , a former head of the Urban Mass Transportation agency in Washington , DC , who now works for Bechtel , says that he approached 44 firms on Wall Street in 1989–90 before finding the right combination of people to put together a private toll-road project . |
| 13 | But most ballots endorsed proposals for industrial action and all of the union ballots held in 1985 on maintaining a political fund overwhelmingly endorsed the idea . |
| 14 | And the , as I say , it must have been difficult to go through a day , between nineteen thirty-nine , and nineteen forty-five without hearing the National Anthem somewhere , somehow . |
| 15 | Thus , Kurt got away with receiving stolen goods to the value of £3 10s by pleading an unselfish motivation to help his girlfriend and her three-month-old baby , while Nissi , whose bearing ‘ was very humble and apologetic ’ , was discharged after being caught red-handed taking cigarettes from a bombed-out tobacconist 's . |
| 16 | President Aptidon of Djibouti concluded a visit to Addis Ababa on Nov. 4-6 by issuing a joint communiqué together with President Meles Zenawi . |
| 17 | Regimental traditions have influenced the badge patterns of The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry , which was formed in 1881 by linking The 32nd Regiment of Foot ( Cornwall ) , raised in The 1st Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps 1702 , and The 46th Regiment of Foot ( South Devonshire ) , raised in 1741 . |
| 18 | Then the Einstein equation is The choice of the constant of proportionality will be justified in Section 7.4 by taking the classical limit and showing that Newton 's law of gravitation is then obtained . |
| 19 | The government responded in September 1903 by appointing an interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration . |
| 20 | Neville and his co-defendants James Anderson and Felix Dennis , were found guilty in 1971 of publishing an obscene article , namely OZ 28 , otherwise known as Schoolkids ' OZ , and were given prison sentences ranging from nine to fifteen months . |
| 21 | Three seamen were arrested in 1762 for leading a similar procession around Liverpool docks claiming a minimum wage of 40s. a month . |
| 22 | Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park . |
| 23 | We first prove 1.5.1 by employing the standard proof involving definite use of the concepts of irreducibility and primeness . |
| 24 | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed on July 2 , 1976 , after North Vietnam-backed communist insurgents had effectively reunified the country in April 1975 by overthrowing the United States-supported government of South Vietnam . |
| 25 | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed in 1976 after North Vietnam-backed communist insurgents had reunified the country in April 1975 by overthrowing the United States-supported government of South Vietnam after some 16 years of war . |
| 26 | It is , therefore , particularly gratifying to be able to report that , in response to the case for maintaining the level of purchases made by the Library with the support of other Scottish research libraries , and users , both local and remote , Government agreed in December 1989 to restore substantially the level of the Library 's Purchase Grant in 1990–91 by allocating an additional £200,000 for purchases for the Library 's collections . |
| 27 | It was left to Professor Dowd to come to their aid in 1870 by publishing a 107-page monograph entitled A System of National Time for Railroads . |
| 28 | A 21-year old university student , Lim Su Kyong , was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment on Feb. 5 for making an unauthorized trip to North Korea to promote Korean reunification by attending the 13th World Youth and Student Festival held in Pyongyang in July 1989 [ see p. 36816 ] . |
| 29 | Mouland was tipped as a rising star of European golf when he turned professional in 1981 after winning the British Boys Championship . |
| 30 | His Senior Assistant is 24-year old Max Taylor from Southport , who turned professional at 18 after winning the Junior Championship at Bootle Golf Club ( Liverpool ) . |