Example sentences of "[num] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 2 | The original purposes of the RSG system introduced in 1981 -82 were to provide a fairer and more objective method of grant distribution and to eliminate previous incentives to high spending . |
| 3 | The RSFSR , the Soviet Union 's largest and most powerful republic , on June 12 was declared a sovereign state by its Congress of People 's Deputies ( constituted in May — see pp. 37459-60 ) . |
| 4 | The Council of Legal Education Trinity Bar Examination 1989 Additional Pass List The following candidate has been awarded a III been awarded a III Class Pass in the Bar Examination 6017 Andrews , JR ( I ) The Council of Legal Education Michaelmas Bar Examination 1989 Overseas Pass List The following candidates have passed an Individual Section to complete the Bar Examination . |
| 5 | Seven of the 26 subjects known to have non-insulin dependent diabetes were receiving insulin , 13 were taking sulphonylureas , and six were taking a specific diet . |
| 6 | One resort seizing the bull by the horns is little old Adelboden , which for 1991 is building a big new gondola to link two of its smaller ski areas to its major one . |
| 7 | The 14-month old MP-1 is reduced a further 32% in price to $75,000 . |
| 8 | The Statute of Quia Emptores 1290 gave free power of alienation inter vivos to all tenants in fee simple ; and the effect of the Statute of Wills 1540 and the Statute of Tenures 1660 was to give a free power of testamentary disposition . |
| 9 | This story is continued in Chapter 13 , where 1991 was to see a close UN interest being taken in Iraq 's latter activities in this field . |
| 10 | The election of the Thatcher government in 1979 was to see a new approach to the management of the civil service . |
| 11 | Talking of scary moments , Manc popsters THE AWESOME THREE are encountering a few of those since releasing their ‘ Possessed ’ single . |
| 12 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 13 | The Three were negotiating a trilateral free-trade zone to be implemented over a 10-year period , which it was hoped could be signed on July 1 . |
| 14 | The policy behind Article 35 is to protect a third party from undesired obligations and to make that party 's consent the basis of any such obligations . |
| 15 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |
| 16 | One of the first decisions of the reformed Parliament elected in 1833 was to appoint a Royal Commission staffed ‘ by eager young intellectuals of Whig opinions ’ to inquire into the municipal corporations ( Webb and Webb 1963 : 141 ) . |
| 17 | BT , which has a 95% share of the British market , and MCI are investing a combined $1 billion to launch a new joint-venture company ; BT will hold a 75% stake in the new firm , MCI the remainder . |
| 18 | There 's no doubt that 1992 is proving a bumper year for lingerie fanciers . |
| 19 | Conceding that ‘ millions of people are linked by an enduring minority interest which has been largely neglected by television ’ , Channel 4 is to broadcast a ten-day ‘ steam season ’ in September under the title ‘ Going Loco ’ . |
| 20 | We have seen the former being raided by Eadric Streona in 1012 and fighting for Edmund Ironside in 1016 , while the latter are said to have attacked Durham in 1006 , and by Æthelred 's death King Malcolm II was planning a further incursion . |
| 21 | Hard to believe though it may now be , Britain in the 1970s was experiencing a profound crisis . |
| 22 | AFIVE-year-old father of 100,000 was spared a horrible fate . |
| 23 | 1064 was to investigate a violent death that was a matter of public concern and in circumstances where it was apparent from the beginning that an inquest would be held and a prosecution might follow . |
| 24 | Changing recruitment patterns in the 1990s are having a profound effect upon the market for the Banking Certificate , with numbers falling down from more than 10,000 candidates in 1989 to around 5,000 today . |
| 25 | It may be helpful to visualize the difference between the two approaches by envisaging two circles , the one is given a precise central dot which is clearly defined , the other does not express the centre but has a number of lines on the circumference of the circle which point towards the centre . |
| 26 | However , it soon became clear that , not only are Indian gaols so varied that to describe any one is to create a false picture , but a description of ‘ conditions ’ alone would give readers outside India little real insight into the country 's prison system or how it is experienced by inmates . |
| 27 | One is to acquire a human asset multiplier for each level of staff . |
| 28 | One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 . |
| 29 | Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) . |
| 30 | That report had two main objectives one was to establish a clear policy for G M B health and safety the second was to set out a training programme to establish the G M B's role in health and safety . |