Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1986 I cultivated new ambitions which took me out of the British orbit and on to a higher plane . |
| 2 | Up till about 1980 I had little experience of float fishing for big bream , and I do n't recall ever having read anything on the subject . |
| 3 | As a child of the Thirties I heard much talk of J.P.M. and Fred Shaw ( the NCLC Organiser ) , Plebs and the Railway Service Journal — and the Manchester Guardian — were as much a part of my youthful literary life as Mickey Mouse and Film Fun . |
| 4 | Third , there is a small but important category of provision deriving authority from Section 137 in the Local Government Act 1972 which allowed local authorities to spend the product of a rate of 2p in the pound on anything ‘ which in their opinion is in the interests of their area or any part of it or all or some of its inhabitants ’ . |
| 5 | The government of the Solomon Islands on Sept. 15 lodged a strong diplomatic protest with the government of Papua New Guinea in response to a seaborne raid by Papuan commandos on Sept. 12 which left two people dead . |
| 6 | The Director of Public Prosecutions will decide in the next few weeks if BR must face corporate manslaughter charges over the disaster on December 12 which claimed 35 lives . |
| 7 | Short was a child prodigy and the outstanding product of the English chess explosion of the 70s and early 80s which took English chess from the second division to second place only to the former Soviet Union . |
| 8 | And it was indeed hope , education and reformation that dominated the sphere of juvenile justice in these years , most solidly embodied in the Children and Young Persons Act of 1933 which consolidated these developments in the treatment of young offenders . |
| 9 | Chapters 3–4 Who said these words in the story ? |
| 10 | Between 1616 and 1629 she bore eight children , and with her husband was active in a Shrewsbury conventicle . |
| 11 | The fifth , René Lévesque , likewise recognized for his visionary leadership , was the premier of Quebec between 1976 and 1985 who brought that province to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada . |
| 12 | After Thebes swallowed up Plataia in 427 she controlled four Boiotarchs and 240 councillors . |
| 13 | All adult women won the vote in 1928 , after partially winning it for women over 30 who possessed some property in 1918 . |
| 14 | During 1876 he built new premises on the outskirts of Aberdeen , to cope with the increased demand . |
| 15 | During 1971 and 1972 he surveyed four oil refineries — two each in France and Britain — interviewing a total of over 800 workers . |
| 16 | In charge of works after the collapse of the central tower in 1237–9 he remained chief master at least until Christmas 1257 , described as ‘ cementarius magister operis ’ and ‘ magister fabrice ’ . |
| 17 | Between 1378 and 1407 he enjoyed thirty-five benefices ( although never more than twelve at once ) . |
| 18 | During 1939–44 he spent several years teaching in North America , at Hartford Seminary and at Fisk University , and he received an honorary DD from Wesley College , Winnipeg . |
| 19 | On his death in 1985 he left two gold watches to his sons . |
| 20 | According to a report on Radio Afghanistan on Dec. 30 he received 916 votes and there were 59 votes against . |
| 21 | Shevardnadze in a strong speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on Sept. 25 characterized Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait as " an act of terrorism against the nascent new world order " , and , apparently going further than Gorbachev had suggested at Helsinki [ see above ] , stated that the Soviet Union was prepared to support the use of force against Iraq , in a UN framework , if the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait continued ; on Sept. 30 he confirmed Soviet willingness to join a UN force if necessary . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom imposed visa restrictions from Nov. 8 on former Yugoslavs except holders of Croatian and Slovenian passports and agreed to take only 150 refugees plus their dependants ; on Nov. 30 it increased this number to 1,000 plus dependants for temporary asylum . |
| 23 | In 1903 he sold four sets of kites to the Admiralty ; in 1905 the army ordered kites , and engaged Cody to instruct the Royal Engineers in their operation . |
| 24 | Respectable workers were rewarded with the vote , and in 1868 the Royal Commission on Trade Unions recommended the extension of legal protection for trade unions , which was achieved in the Trade Union Act of 1871 which for the first time gave legal protection to Trade Union funds and the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1875 which legalized peaceful picketing . |
| 25 | The mass picket helped justify such subsequent developments as more mobile squads of police , greater mutual aid between forces and the introduction of the Employment Act 1980 which outlawed secondary picketing and allowed the police to determine the maximum size of the picket . |
| 26 | Central government intervention in local government tendering began with the Local Government , Planning and Land Act 1980 which applied competitive tendering to local authority direct labour organisations ( DLO ) . |
| 27 | The burning question for the poverty lobby is from where and how , particularly given the Fowler reviews in 1986 which made wide-ranging cuts and changes to the social security system . |
| 28 | In April–May 1991 I spent 5 weeks in Japan , part of the time as a visiting teacher at Kyoto University . |
| 29 | I had six I had five advertisers go in . |
| 30 | But before he cruised to his unbeaten 85 which sealed this victory with more than 11 overs to spare , he was put through quite an ordeal by the pumped-up Waqar . |