Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was already twenty-one and their self-imposed tests of constraint were severely strained . |
| 2 | I refer to our meeting on Thursday 15 July 1993 and your subsequent letter dated 27 July 1993 and repeat that your reqest for back dating of your regrading will require to be discussed with the Department of Management and Information Services and , if agreed , must then be approved by the Personnel Committee . |
| 3 | Aeneas Coffey married Sussana Logie in 1808 and their four sons all entered the business , three of them after studying at Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 4 | Davis was a founder-member of the Society of Chemical Industry in 1881 and its first secretary . |
| 5 | They were married in 1985 and their first child , Katie , was born last year . |
| 6 | Four members of the Ulster Orchestra , Ottoline Maas ( violin ) , Jonathan Griffin ( violin ) , Philip Walton ( viola ) and Morag Stewart ( cello ) , formed the Adelphi Quartet in 1985 and their busy recital schedule throughout the Province has evoked increasing enthusiasm . |
| 7 | The Prince of Wales established an award for innovation in 1985 and his working group on innovation was set up after a conference at Highgrove last year . |
| 8 | AI believes that he is being made to answer for his active involvement in the Sudan Doctors ' Union and left-wing politics , his role in the non-violent protests which led to the overthrow of President Nimeiri in April 1985 and his outspoken criticism of the current government . |
| 9 | Because of his betrayal of the Decembrists in 1825 and his long identification with the regime of Nicholas I , he had few friends on the left of the political spectrum who could advise him on the way in which emancipation should proceed . |
| 10 | A full overview of the new rules is not included in Chapter 12 but their salient provisions are noted here . |
| 11 | Forecasting nil growth in the market this year , the company said it expected a slight upturn in the final quarter of 1993 but its total truck sales would not exceed last year 's 32,000 . |
| 12 | Curiously , the cover of ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ features Enya in which can only be described as an opera gown — she could be twenty or forty but her delicate beauty is intact . |
| 13 | In real terms , gross investment in manufacturing fell by more than a third between 1979 and its lowest point in 1983 . |
| 14 | The Consumer Guarantees Bill 1990 , would have included in the present s14(2) of SGA 1979 and its equivalent provisions under SOGIT 1973 ( as substituted by Sched 4 to CCA 1974 ) and the SGSA 1982 , the following provision which is worth setting out in full since it received Government approval and is likely to be re-introduced in the near future : ( 2A ) For the purposes of this Act , goods are of satisfactory quality if they meet the standard that a reasonable person would regard as satisfactory , taking account of any description of the goods , the price ( if relevant ) and all the other relevant circumstances . |
| 15 | The question of a regional convention in this whole field was put on the agenda of the Committee in 1975 and detailed reports were considered at its Twentieth Session in 1979 and its Twenty-Second Session in 1981 . |
| 16 | The Ayrshire Cattle Society was founded in 1877 and its first herdbook published the following year , but there continued to be conflict between those who bred for show and those who bred for commercial production . |
| 17 | Although RNA polymerase III and its assumed transcription factors could recently be purified ( 21 ) , total reconstitution from highly purified components was hitherto inefficient and we observed that additional components contained in crude hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC fractions were necessary for efficient in vitro transcription . |
| 18 | This custom continued under David Barclay , who entertained there George I in 1714 , George II in 1727 , and the young George III and his new bride in 1761 , the last occasion attracting widespread interest in the metropolitan press . |
| 19 | In the light of the changes effected by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 and its transitional provisions , the problem may never arise . |
| 20 | As the fortunes of the mine declined we discover him during 1877 paid as " John Latham and boys " with his account as low as £31 for a month ; a far cry from the 1840's-1860's when the dressing staff of old men , women , boys and girls averaged 100 and their total wages ranged from £142 to £241 . |
| 21 | The town of Prozor , 70 km west of Sarajevo , was destroyed by Croatian forces on Oct. 26 and its 3,000 inhabitants forced to leave . |
| 22 | One of a family of six and me elder brother was me bro me dad had a little business in the keys in and er they were hard times and me elder brother we used to go and work for him because me dad said he must and er from , after school I used to go and perhaps do the errands or a bit of filing , the odd jobs and all that sort of thing and I grew up with locks and keys and files from twelve , even before I left school . |
| 23 | Electrical engineer David Schoo , 45 and his 35-year-old wife Sharon were stunned as police put them in handcuffs when their plane landed at Chicago airport . |
| 24 | He died heavily indebted in 1751 and his two sons , Whistler and Godfrey , just managed to keep the estates solvent . |
| 25 | He became lord lieutenant of Hertfordshire in 1612 and his punctilious implementation of orders from the Privy Council impressed the king , who made him a knight of the Garter in 1624 . |
| 26 | The rebellion of 1381 and its subsequent repression did not affect the underlying problems of the economy , notably those posed by the decline in population . |
| 27 | You 'll find you 're never alone with WordStar 7 and its multifarious range of supported file formats . |
| 28 | As the presenter of Channel 4 's first youth programme Whatever You Want , the stocky Llanelli-born Allen had the ideal vehicle for his anarchic polemics , the best thing about a scrappy programme that featured The Undertones one moment and an abortion debate the next , planting the seeds for The Tube , Network 7 and their many-headed progeny . |
| 29 | ‘ Instead of resting on its laurels when most other makers are talking increasingly about safety , Volvo has used the impressive 850 and its evocative launch campaign to broaden its appeal significantly ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It is a drug used in medicine since 1935 and its serious side-effects are rare even when it is prescribed at high concentrations for long periods . |