Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in his 30s and was a member of the Royal Irish Regiment . |
| 2 | In public life , Holford served as Conservative MP for East Gloucestershire from 1854 to 1872 and was a JP , but he took little interest in politics . |
| 3 | He has been chairman of the cereals committee since 1985 and is a member of the Yorkshire ( East Riding ) branch . |
| 4 | Manoon had organized the abortive " Young Turk " coups of 1981 and 1985 and was the leader of the Class 7 graduates of Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy . |
| 5 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
| 6 | The gallery above the ramp is divided into five distinct spaces for the Impressionist paintings inspired by Renoir and dating from after 1940 , the ‘ vache ’ paintings which occupied the artist briefly in 1948 and were the subject of a recent reassessment by Bernard Blistene , Director of the Musées de Marseilles , the rock or stone paintings , an important selection of gouaches and works on paper , and Magritte 's painted bottles and other objects . |
| 7 | Electrically activated signals worked by small switches and interlocked with the points they controlled were first introduced by Sykes at Penge in 1875 and were the forerunner of large electro-mechanical signalling systems in which electrically actuated signals controlled by small slides were introduced , with lever-controlled points actuated by rodding . |
| 8 | Thus , if the taxpayer created a discretionary trust before 18 March 1986 and is a beneficiary thereunder , the reservation of benefit provisions can not apply . |
| 9 | To claim that Britain has nurtured something in a matter ultimately pertaining to worship ( the choral singing of cathedral and chapel ) which is purified and controlled beyond anything possessed by Catholic Europe , which is purged of excessive artifice and rhetoric ( Continental reviewers consistently find English a cappella performances impassive ) and whose excellence gives Britain a mission these are among the ideas that have been the principal source of British national identity since the Act of Union in 1707 and were a foundation stone of English identity long before . |
| 10 | The MINIS system was introduced in 1980 and is a management information system designed to identify resources consumed on specified activities by organizational units . |
| 11 | Planning had been his cri de coeur as a Tory rebel in the thirties and was the cornerstone of his political testament , The Middle Way , first published in 1938 . |
| 12 | The taxpayer was incorporated in Hong Kong on 17 June 1975 and is a subsidiary of another Hong Kong company , HK-TVB Ltd . |
| 13 | Prof Montgomery graduated MD with honours in 1946 and was a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Glasgow , the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh , the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Pathologists . |
| 14 | Northampton 's historic market square dates back to 1235 and was the scene of many events and fairs . |
| 15 | He graduated from the University with an LLB in 1950 and is a partner in a solicitors ' practice in Nottingham . |
| 16 | Mr Inglis edited the Spectator from 1959 to 1962 and was the author of many books on parapsychology , the paranormal and alternative medicine . |
| 17 | In 1988 women 's average gross hourly earnings represented 74.9 per cent of men 's earnings , which is slightly down on the peak of 75.5 per cent in 1977 but is an improvement on the 1985 figure of 73.9 per cent . |
| 18 | Even by definition , Key Stage 4 is a sort of disaster area : the implicit message is that education comes to a full stop at 16 and is the antithesis of what we need . |
| 19 | He joined the Labour Party when he was 16 and was a councillor in Lambeth . |
| 20 | The lower house of the National Congress , the Chamber of Deputies , voted by 88 to 76 on Aug. 16 to withdraw the constitutional immunity from prosecution of former President Alan García Pérez , who held office in 1985-1990 and was a senator for life , so that he could face trial for the " alleged charges of embezzlement , extortion , fraud and the breach of public faith " . |
| 21 | The line ( 0 ) is the reaction function of manufacturer 1 whilst is the reaction function of the retailer of 2 's product when charged an input price ( costs are assumed here to equal zero ) . |
| 22 | Although crew cuts had been around forever , all-over short hair of ½″ or less started in about '64 & was a conservative-suit-mod staple until '68 when it went even shorter — ¼″ and less & in '69 near-shaven styles ( baldness never caught on ) ½″ or so of hair in the 60s was not as noteworthy as a backward glance might suggest — because long hair got all the publicity , you 'd think that everyone below 25 grew their hair long . |
| 23 | A well-known walking enthusiast , he started the Darlington and district youth hostel association in the 1930s and was a founder member of the rucksack club the town 's first rambling group . |
| 24 | 5.22 Defective premises To give notice to the Landlord of any defect in the Premises which might give rise to an obligation on the Landlord to do or refrain from doing any act or thing in order to comply with the provisions of this Lease or the duty of care imposed on the Landlord pursuant to the Defective Premises Act 1972 or otherwise and at all times to display and maintain all notices which the Landlord may from time to time [ reasonably ] require to be displayed at the Premises The difficulty here is that this covenant could impose an unfair obligation on the tenant and it should therefore be amended as follows : To give notice to the Landlord upon becoming aware of any defect … 5.23 New guarantor Within [ 14 ] days of the death during the Term of any Guarantor or of such person becoming bankrupt or having a receiving order made against him or having a receiver appointed under the Mental Health Act 1983 or being a company passing a resolution to wind up or entering into liquidation or having a receiver appointed to give notice of this to the Landlord and if so required by the Landlord at the expense of the Tenant within [ 28 ] days to procure some other person acceptable to the Landlord [ such acceptance not to be unreasonably withheld ] to execute a guarantee in respect of the Tenant 's obligations contained in this Lease in the form of the Guarantor 's covenants contained in this Lease Although this may be perfectly fair and reasonable in that a guarantor 's covenants are expected to last during the period for which they are given , many tenants try to resist this covenant on the basis that it may be extremely difficult for the tenant to produce an alternative guarantor . |
| 25 | The AIDS/Malaria Preventative Care Campaign will run from 1993 till the end of 1994 and is the theme of SIDT 's next LINK , a bi-monthly magazine which provides an alternative view on important development issues . |
| 26 | Mr Mike Widmer , managing director of Caldair which owns United , Teesside Motor Services and Tees and District Buses , claims the debts date back to 1989 and are a result of the concessionary fares scheme . |
| 27 | Prices in sterling ( in brackets ) are shown at exchange rates applicable on 25th July 1989 and are a guide only . |
| 28 | Does he accept that a fail-safe system — an automatic train protection system — would cost nearer £390 million and is a matter of urgency ? |
| 29 | Together with the Ukraine and the USSR itself , Belorussia became a founder member of the United Nations in 1945 and was a member of the International Labour Organisation and UNESCO . |
| 30 | This book is the substance of his Lyell Lectures in 1983 but is the synthesis of thirty years ' work . |