Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nutrition , based in the Netherlands , employs 2,300 and has a turnover of £190m . |
| 32 | Nevertheless , Terminal courses increased steadily throughout the following decade , doubling in total numbers between 1925 and 1935 and reaching a total of fifty in the latter year . |
| 33 | The controversy over the Tasaday , a group of 26 allegedly ‘ stone-age ’ cave-dwelling people ‘ discovered ’ in 1971 and pronounced a hoax in 1986 is based on the all-or-nothing ‘ cultural purity ’ argument of anthropologists . |
| 34 | ‘ I 'm five foot eight and take a size nine in shoes . |
| 35 | Tony Coia 's grandfather , Massimino , came to Britain from Cassino with his wife in 1886 and bought a barrel organ . |
| 36 | Touch and Go ( Published by the Author , 128pp , illus , sbk ) by R G Fletcher is the story of one particular Telegraphist/Air Gunner ( TAG ) course , No 35 , which began training in late 1941 and qualified a year later . |
| 37 | Jean Collona also slunk through the Seventies and underlined a look that will for at least a year separate the old from the young . |
| 38 | After a spell at Oriel College , Oxford , where he later claimed to have suffered a worthless and drunken tutor , he came to reside at Dumbleton on his grandmother 's death in 1690 and inaugurated a programme of rebuilding and improvement . |
| 39 | Consequently we 've been greatly concerned by the government 's delay in bringing forward this legislation which was adopted in draft on the twenty third of June nineteen ninety three and became a council directive on the sixth of December nineteen ninety three . |
| 40 | Yes my Lord er you can see that er on page one in paragraph one two , he is a partner in a firm of he qualified as a solicitor in nineteen seventy three and became a partner in nineteen seventy six and since qualifying , so that er some twenty five years ago , he has dealt primarily with commercial and residential conveyancing and his contained in paragraph one and three er he 's been asked to advise on the extent of the duty of professional care and skill in relation to Mr financing the transaction and the extent to which they were under an obligation to advise Mr of any opportunity to rescind . |
| 41 | They may have to , if the Middle East 's old enemies are ever to move on to phase three and cut a deal . |
| 42 | Accolade — which received a similar award in 1984 — now has a total of three disabled people on its 14-strong staff and makes a positive effort to recruit handicapped people , according to the marketing manager , Irene McAlaney , who is one of the three and has a walking difficulty as a result of childhood polio . |
| 43 | Hendry stepped in with 73 to win 5-4 and clinch a place in the semi-finals tomorrow against Englishman Mick Price . |
| 44 | Applicants , who must be at least 21 and have a minimum of four GCSEs , are put through two rigorous interviews . |
| 45 | He studied agriculture in England , but entered politics at the age of 21 and won a seat in the Sind provincial assembly . |
| 46 | He made his recordings in 1904 and died a year later ; by 1925 they had been moved to the ‘ Historic Catalogue ’ . |
| 47 | She was appointed DBE in 1960 and made a life peer as Baroness Brooke of Ystradfellte in 1964 . |
| 48 | For Cusick , who had joined the BBC as a Design Assistant in 1960 and become a Designer proper in 1962 , his move into Doctor Who was almost accidental . |
| 49 | He qualified as a doctor in 1946 and became a Master of Orthopaedic Surgery in Liverpool in 1953 . |
| 50 | But clearly Hateley , who made his England debut back in 1984 and earned a fortune playing abroad , does not feel he was properly treated by Taylor . |
| 51 | He also had repaired many of the roads and bridges that were damaged in the great flood of I 803 and built a bridge at Câmara de Lobos , improved the municipal theatre and presented six beds and a hundred blankets to the hospital . |
| 52 | The bulk of his writing appeared in the 1870s but enjoyed a revival in the 1890s , mainly because of its open display of virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Polish attitudes . |
| 53 | He did five himself in Long Kesh in the early seventies for planting a bomb . |
| 54 | As far as the oil itself was concerned , there was a whiff of competition in the air , with Iran reported early in 1984 as proposing a counter . |
| 55 | Two of these orders were made under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and had a power of arrest attached . |
| 56 | Clause 52 of the Bill as introduced eventually became section 61 of the Act of 1976 and imposed a charge to tax on benefits in kind for higher paid employees , i.e. , those paid more than £5,000 per annum . |
| 57 | The Tindemans Report appeared in January 1976 and recommended a widening of EC activity in economic , social and regional policies . |
| 58 | Suzanne wished to leave school at sixteen and become a hairdresser . |
| 59 | The Model Railways and Locomotives magazine was founded by him in 1908 and became a platform from which he could share his knowledge and expertise with others . |
| 60 | Officials admit that the replanting of the hillsides is crucial for the success of the programme and yet the replanting only started in 1981 and seems a case of too little and too late . |