Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , I. B. Cowan could publish a book in 1971 justifiably entitled The Enigma of Mary Stuart .
2 The Constitution adopted in 1972 effectively turned the country into a one-party state under the Cameroon People 's Democratic Movement ( RDPC ) .
3 The seizure of the strategic eastern town of Abéché on Nov. 30 effectively broke the resistance of Habré 's forces , who were reported to have fled in large numbers or defected to the MPS .
4 In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) .
5 The report concluded that the Fayed brothers , Mohamed and Ali , had ( i ) dishonestly misrepresented their background and wealth to the DTI for the purpose of persuading the Department in 1985 not to refer the acquisition to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) ; ( ii ) used their connection with the Sultan of Brunei to enable them to acquire the funds used in the acquisition ; ( iii ) repeated their lies to their advisers , who had accepted at face value what they were told and failed to check its accuracy ; and ( iv ) misrepresented the extent of their business assets to both the DTI and to the Office of Fair Trading .
6 The army with which Cnut eventually conquered England in 1016 also included a number of these largely independent warlords .
7 Figure 2 clearly shows the geometry involved .
8 The mandate for prayers of thanks for the capture of Caen in 1346 also ordered the publication of the king 's itinerary ‘ for the comfort and consolation … of the entire English people ’ .
9 Furthermore , the wire-line log response in the inter-reef areas , as exemplified by Hønning-1 clearly indicates the absence of the vuggy packstone unit and only carbonate muds with intercrystalline porosity are developed ( Fig. 12 ) .
10 The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month .
11 1801 also saw the publication of his classic book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae .
12 Set up in 1985 mainly to service the supermarket sector , Elm 's emphasis on technical innovation , product quality and customer service helped it build a strong customer base and penetrate international markets .
13 The abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747 substantially increased the influence of the Government over the Scottish voters by effectively restricting judicial patronage to the Crown .
14 Customer number 027 originally ordered a tape for UNIX on VAX at 6250 bpi .
15 New rules in s88 and Sch 8 Finance Act 1993 now restrict the usefulness of capital losses carried forward in a target company which is acquired by a capital gains tax group .
16 Some 19 people objected to the Independent Television Commission and a further 30 misguidedly rang the Advertising Standards Authority , which covers only ads in print .
17 Resentment and resistance followed , notably in the Pilgrimage of Grace ; and although the Crown was able to ride that storm , it agreed in 1540 partially to replace the Statute of Uses with a milder act , the Statute of Wills , which in effect allowed landowners to avoid feudal incidents on two-thirds of their lands .
18 The postponement to 1993 simply to await the Government 's belated funding of community care will overcome none of the difficulties .
19 Test Pack 2 simply provides an alternative to Test Pack 1 — especially useful if you need to test the same student again , at a later date .
20 The Bar Association at its annual conference on June 30 strongly urged the adoption of a multiparty system , declaring that the APC had " failed to achieve any of the goals set for itself " .
21 1 What impression did you get of the place where the story is set ? 2 How did the life of the children at that time compare with your life ? 3 Do you believe in ghosts ?
22 In 1767 there followed a verse translation of Horace in four volumes .
23 Sun Aug 22 at 2 pm Conserving The Countryside meet Hermitage House
24 It introduced an attempt to assess the truth of the often reiterated statement that the Great Barbarian Conspiracy of 367 virtually destroyed the villa system in Britain .
25 22 How to choose a lender AND a discount
26 Expression of Bcl-2 completely inhibits the onset of apoptosis in serum-deprived Rat-1 cells after c-Myc activation , as shown in Fig. 2 .
27 His first full address to the Central Committee in April 1985 again emphasised the importance of the 26th Congress and called for a ‘ steady advance ’ rather than a clear break with earlier policies ; the party 's general line , as he explained it , involved the ‘ perfection of developed socialist society ’ , a characterisation that was thoroughly Brezhnevian in tone .
28 VidiPC 12 sequentially samples the red , green and blue components of the video signal .
29 Chapter 2 therefore explores the nature of the capitalist state , examining its ‘ relative autonomy ’ from the so-called needs of the economic system , and its complex internal organization .
30 In 1945 , the Miles Aircraft Company was developing a supersonic experimental aircraft , the M 52 , but lack of basic data on supersonic conditions led to the decision in 1948 not to risk a pilot 's life flying it until more was known about the compressibility of air , or the sound barrier .
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