Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Youngsters from 14–17 got an exclusive insight into the repertoire of a military band as players demonstrated everything from trumpet fanfares to dance music . |
| 2 | The approaches to investment appraisal discussed in chapters 1 and 2 took an individual-project perspective . |
| 3 | In March Gen Buniacenko 's 1st KONR Div. made an unsuccessful attack on a strong Soviet bridgehead on the Oder . |
| 4 | A new emergency tax plan announced in February 1991 provoked an angry response from public-sector workers in particular [ see p. 38003 ] . |
| 5 | In the control sample the picture was slightly different ; of the 13 who stated a preference at first interview for home care and whom we were able to interview again one year later , six stated an unequivocal preference for home care , five a preference for home care but a recognition of the necessity for , or a competing preference for , institutional care , and two a clear preference for institutional care . |
| 6 | Sergius III had an illegitimate son whom he arranged should succeed him as pope . |
| 7 | The budget report given by the Finance Minister , Wang Bingqian , on March 21 revealed an unprecedented deficit for 1991 of 21,100 million yuan , or 8,760 million yuan more than estimated in March 1991 . |
| 8 | It is said that James VI frequented the Sheep 's Head Inn and in 1580 presented an embellished ram 's head and horns for adorning the bar . |
| 9 | The government on Sept. 21 launched an economic recovery plan , anticipating a full-scale structural adjustment programme expected to be introduced in 1991 . |
| 10 | Category three had an interesting result , with John ‘ I 'm not short either ’ Godding outreaching the others with a score of 94 . |
| 11 | Further economic adjustments announced on Sept. 4 complemented an economic austerity package announced by Economy Minister Antonio Ermán González on Aug. 31 , the fifth under his administration [ for March 1990 measures see p. 37500 ] . |
| 12 | Both Pope Eugenius III and Pope Adrian IV pursued an active policy of acquiring castles , fortifying them and giving them special status . |
| 13 | In November 1259 the barons in Council raised the annual salary of the Justice of the Forests south of Trent from 100 to 200 marks a year , and his colleague for the northern forests was in August 1260 granted an annual salary of 60 marks , instead of having to pay an annual farm of the same sum as he had previously done . |
| 14 | The former Governor of Gibraltar , Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Terry , was seriously wounded and his wife , Lady Betty Terry , slightly injured when an Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) gunman on Sept. 18 fired an automatic rifle into their home in the village of Milford ( near Stafford ) . |
| 15 | The eight members of the Collective State Presidency and Croatian President Tudjman had on Oct. 18 ordered an unconditional ceasefire before the start of the talks . |
| 16 | The two leaders on June 17 signed an unprecedented arms reduction agreement which would eventually cut the two powers ' nuclear arsenals by two-thirds , going far beyond the START treaty signed by President Bush and President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union in July 1991 [ see p. 38320 ] . |
| 17 | Ovation 's founder and chief executive is cable pioneer Harold E. Morse , who in the 1970s established an educational network called The Learning Channel that he recently sold . |
| 18 | Regular readers will recall that the first half of the 1970s saw an unprecedented upsurge of feminist activism , the most vigorous since the struggle for the vote in the first two decades of the century . |
| 19 | Among 24 regional banks , 11 managed an acceptable return on assets of more than 1% in 1989 , and on equity of at least 15% . |
| 20 | Earlier , North Korea had on July 17 cancelled an 11th round of talks to arrange a joint meeting of legislators ( scheduled for July 19 ) , on the grounds that the violent clashes within the South Korean National Assembly [ see this page ] had made the meeting impossible . |
| 21 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on April 4 issued an urgent appeal to the parliaments of the republics to stop withholding contributions to the union budget . |
| 22 | In December 1785 Joseph 11 issued an imperial decree limiting the number of Viennese lodges to three . |
| 23 | Following over two months of torrential rain and the worst floods since 1954 , China on July 11 issued an urgent appeal for US$200 million in international aid , the first such appeal for outside assistance since the Communists took power in 1949 . |
| 24 | Chelsmford II had an easy win over Wanstead , Eddie Lawrence taking 5 for 38 and skipper , David Carr , scoring 54 not out . |
| 25 | London in the 1950s suffered horrendous ‘ smogs ’ ( smoky fogs ) largely through burning coal in domestic grates ; the one of 1952 had an estimated pH of 1.6 , which made it more acid than lemon juice . |
| 26 | Two factors at the start of 1922 had an inhibiting influence . |
| 27 | All were compound heterozygous : 5 had the W1282X , 5 the F508 , 1 the G85E mutation , and 4 had an unidentified mutation on the other chromosome . |
| 28 | The Land Registration Act 1925 exhibited an intelligible reluctance to hurry extension to other parts of the country until sufficient time had elapsed for testing the general effects of the property legislation of 1925 . |
| 29 | In 1905 he delivered the address in medicine at the BMA annual meeting , and in 1912 became an honorary fellow of the MPA ( from which he had resigned for reasons unknown in 1890 ) . |
| 30 | Hezbollah on Oct. 25 attacked an Israeli personnel carrier in Israel 's self-declared " security zone " , killing five Israeli soldiers and seriously wounding five others . |