Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was described as being about 30 and wearing a diamond patterned jumper . |
| 2 | This artist 's impression is said to be a good likeness of the attacker who 's thought to be in his late 30s and has a pot belly . |
| 3 | He was knighted in 1885 and created a baronet later the same year . |
| 4 | In Goa the new Chief Minister , Ravi S. Naik [ see p. 37964 ] , expanded his ministry on Feb. 12 and won a vote of confidence in the state legislative assembly on Feb. 18 . |
| 5 | The reshuffle was effective from Oct. 2 and involved a total of 642 officers . |
| 6 | Rabuka , who in May 1987 had ousted the civilian government elected one month earlier , was appointed Prime Minister on June 2 and named a coalition government on the following day . |
| 7 | His brother William , who had started a ‘ cabinet of curiosities ’ in Birmingham in 1800 , moved to Liverpool in 1801 and opened a museum . |
| 8 | He joined Comprehensive Financial Services , which later became Rathbone Brothers , in 1985 and became a director in 1990 . |
| 9 | A person " connected " with a director is defined in s346 Companies Act 1985 and includes a body corporate in which the director and other persons connected with him are interested in at least one-fifth of the nominal value of the equity share capital or control more than one-fifth of the voting power of the company at any general meeting . |
| 10 | He left Aberystwyth in 1879 and spent a year in Oxford on a non-collegiate basis . |
| 11 | A letter to Peter Davall Esqr. in the Temple , London , written 1753 and read a year later , points out that seeds exhibited at the Society did not fit the description of a particular species of Bauhinia . |
| 12 | These watches are from a range of six that includes a replica of the timeplace Dick uses to communicate with base , complete with speaking microchip . |
| 13 | There he opened a day-school in 1849 and built a parsonage in 1854 . |
| 14 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 15 | Together they number some 500 , though the social club has had to call a halt on membership at 2,000 and has a turnover of £2 ½ million . |
| 16 | Already preparing himself for the first of his political glittering prizes , the viceroyalty of India , he visited the Trans-Caspian in 1888 and published a book on it in 1889 . |
| 17 | Shaw was knighted in 1660 and created a baronet , with three of his partners , in 1665 . |
| 18 | Li Peng paid a visit to North Korea in May 1991 and made a tour of South-East Asia in August 1990 and of the Middle East in July 1991 . |
| 19 | Having received no response they served a statutory demand on the debtor on 21 August 1991 and issued a bankruptcy petition based on the demand on 20 September . |
| 20 | When faced with complaints about hospitals , and especially about unacceptable waiting lists , the government made an emergency payment of £100 million for 1987/88 and commissioned a review of the NHS . |
| 21 | These complications are illustrated in Figure 5.1 and an example of variance spectra also conjectured by Church ( 1980 ) is also illustrated in Figure 5.1 and introduces a theme which will be resumed in chapter 8 ( p.161 ) . |
| 22 | He took silk on 26 November 1784 and became a bencher on 25 January 1785 , reader in 1790 , and treasurer in 1791 . |
| 23 | Can I say , I 'm thirty six and had a hysterectomy a year ago . |
| 24 | Klingenzell priory , between the castles Liebenfels and Freudenfels , was founded in 1333 and became a place of pilgrimage . |
| 25 | Mikel Marku , a 62-year-old lawyer from Péc , was stopped by police on the evening of 31 October 1991 while driving a friend 's car . |
| 26 | He was called to the bar in 1948 and became a QC in 1967 . |
| 27 | Of those who started on P. P. E. only two sat finals : Elizabeth Adams ( Lady Kennet ) married in 1948 and had a family of six , but combined their upbringing with a considerable amount of research in international affairs , particularly arms control and maritime affairs . |
| 28 | The book , which was published in 1986 and became a best-seller , was written with Americans Ken Smith , Michael Wilkes and Doug Kirby after several years of research . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ He came to live near us in Darlington in 1986 and became a regular at the church lunch club . |
| 30 | Accusations that one group had stolen ideas from the other were soon flying ; Jones showed notebooks of his investigations going back to 1986 and cited a paper written in 1985 ; for their part Fleischmann and Pons insisted that their effort had begun in 1985 , all of which added to the perception that the fusion claims were important and the patents worth fighting for . |