Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of 1925 NSDAP-Danzig boasted 130 members . |
| 2 | From the mid-1470s Brampton maintained extensive business interests . |
| 3 | — 36–51 Small Brush single truck cars . |
| 4 | On Dec. 30 Botha announced that agreement had been reached with Botswana to establish reciprocal missions . |
| 5 | In 1802 Wordsworth produced eight stanzas in the manner of Thomson 's Castle of Indolence , which give first a self-portrait and then a description of Coleridge : |
| 6 | He did , however , ask to see and approve the proposed wording , and on 30 December sent some comments on the proofs accompanied by a brisk command to ‘ get this sorted out and cleared as soon as possible ’ . |
| 7 | By 1972 Walton had 64 stores , with sales of $125 million per annum , and thereafter growth was exponential : by 1991 there were more than 1,700 , with annual sales approaching $44 billion . |
| 8 | In 1821 Marshall began lengthy visits to London , where he met the leading Utilitarians , supported their causes , and became a member of the council of the new university there . |
| 9 | On July 22 Khalifah told foreign journalists in Khartoum that over 800 members of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) had recently surrendered , and that negotiations with the SPLA were imminent . |
| 10 | In a meeting with German businessmen on Nov. 22 Yeltsin described future measures , such as low tax regimes for foreign investors , as an incentive to start up joint ventures . |
| 11 | In 1885 Brunner became Liberal MP for Northwich and held the seat , with one short break , until he resigned in 1909 . |
| 12 | Schools and colleges were closed on April 7 in response to the unrest , but on April 12 Mobutu announced large increases in student grants and civil service wages . |
| 13 | Before the end of 1985 Iraq launched another attack on the Nowruz offshore field near Kharg , first hit in 1983 . |
| 14 | In 1985 Intasun acquired Global Tours from Great Universal Stores in a further step in its diversification and concentration moves . |
| 15 | In 1879 Lewis spent several months visiting European laboratories . |
| 16 | From 1867 Stuart organized private courses while he arranged for the university to be presented by provincial towns with reasoned requests for the provision of university lectures . |
| 17 | In 805 Charles chose one chieftain to reign as his vassal king , and bestowed upon him the ancient title of Chagan , which had originally been that of the independent High King of the Avars . |
| 18 | ACROSS 1 Give bad reviews to dumb show — he might be in this ( 9 ) 6 Old-time US lawyer and rocker ( 5 ) 9 Reversing of French vehicle went quickly ( 5 ) 10 Dynamic object contains fungus ( 9 ) 11 Main entrance where he went Up the third time ? ( 3,5 ) 12 Baldwin shortly takes on church position ( 6 ) 14 The man himself ( 7,6 ) 16 New sandpit from E. Europe used to treat shoes ( 4,3,6 ) 21 Gauges placing a thousand rows ( 6 ) 22 Seller hears another way to say in other words ( 8 ) 25 Phone round Esquire readers with article on things observed ( 9 ) 26 One lady posed as the one with tattoos ( 5 ) 27 Equipment in ship for sketches he 's appeared in ( 5 ) 28 One put her away immediately ( 9 ) |
| 19 | 2 Sadie had 137 shells in her collection . |
| 20 | A bomb which exploded in the evening of 12 June caused structural damage to West Green House in Hampshire . |
| 21 | appointed him to undertake a complete revision of the geology of the south Wales coalfield and by 1893 Strahan had five geologists working under him . |
| 22 | It supports 16 encoded MPEG video and 32 MPEG encoded audio streams and handles decoded data rates of 1.2Mbps to 5.6Mbps and NTSC and PAL frame rates of 24 , 25 and 30 frames per second . |
| 23 | Actually , it was an inspired gamble — in his first , albeit injury-hit , season in 1991 Taylor took 54 wickets and last year he grabbed 67 in Northants ' championship chase and suddenly Ted Dexter and the England selectors were knocking on the door . |
| 24 | On March 26 Germany halted military aid and arms supplies to its NATO ally Turkey in protest at the latter 's repression of its Kurdish minority [ see p. 38822 ] . |
| 25 | 0600 spotted Cat 's Ear opens 0700 African Marigold opens 0800 Mouse Ear Hawkweed opens 0900 Prickly Sowthistle closes 1000 Common Nipple Wort closes 1100 Star of Bethlehem opens 1200 Passion Flower opens 1300 Childing Pink closes 1400 Scarlet Pimpernel closes 1500 Hawkbit closes 1600 Small Bindweed closes 1700 White Water Lily closes 1800 Evening Primrose opens |
| 26 | In 1892 Suttons listed 169 different asters , they now list just 14 ; in 1894 Webbs listed 15 nasturtiums , Unwins now list five . |
| 27 | On Aug. 26 Spain deported 195 North Africans , nearly all of them Moroccans , who had attempted the crossing from the Spanish enclave of Melilla , bordering Morocco , to Almeria in mainland Spain , in a 15-metre motor boat . |
| 28 | The Duke of Edinburgh will review 40 warships from 16 nations and ships from the Merchant Navy off Anglesey on 26 May to mark 50 years since the end of the 4-year battle . |
| 29 | In the early 1900s Wilson made sporadic efforts to recruit and raise the level of seamen 's wages , port by port . |
| 30 | 34 Longer Boards 18 prima 16 Tiga Funcup 14 Intermediate Boards 14 Tiga Swift 10 Short Boards 8 Tiga Power Gybe 2 Custom 70 Sails from 4.2 to 6.1 sq m 20 Power head ( 4.2 ) 24 Dual Batten System ( 5.0 ) 26 Full Batten & RAF 5.2–6.1 Makes : Neil Pryde , Gaastra , Hyline , Topsail |