Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 restated the criminal offence of ‘ watching or besetting ’ but excluded from that activity ‘ attending at or near the house or place where a person resides , or works , or carries on business , or happens to be … in order merely to obtain or communicate information ’ . |
| 2 | Lady Arran , who in 1980 became the first person to top 100 mph in an offshore power boat , set the world speed record for an electric boat at just over 50 mph . |
| 3 | He was educated at private schools in Kew and Maida Vale , and in 1866 entered the Royal College of Chemistry , presided over by Dr Edward Frankland . |
| 4 | A change of government in 1948 found the new administration equally committed to health reform . |
| 5 | The UWP , in power since 1982 , won nine of the 17 parliamentary seats in the general election of April 6 , 1987 ; fresh elections on April 30 produced the same result , and the subsequent defection of an SLP member increased the UWP 's majority to three seats [ see pp. 35187-8 ] . |
| 6 | It was Matilda , the only offspring of this marriage , who in 1181–2 became the unwitting cause of what the chronicler of the Limousin , Geoffrey de Vigeois , called " a great calamity for our country " . |
| 7 | Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov on Feb. 12 made the astonishing announcement that January 's sudden withdrawal of Rbs50 and Rbs100 banknotes had been prompted by the discovery of a Western plot to flood the Soviet economy with billions of roubles to create artificial hyper-inflation . |
| 8 | The government condemned the attacks as the work of the enemies of democracy and on Dec. 12 announced the indefinite postponement of legislative elections , due on Jan. 9 , 1992 , " as a gesture of goodwill " . |
| 9 | Prime Minister Constantine Mitsotakis , who faced dissent over his austerity policies and his moderate stance on the Macedonia issue , on Dec. 2 dismissed the entire Cabinet . |
| 10 | Paragraph 12 pronounced the key requirement : the Government 's duty was , it said , to advocate a policy which would provide the best possible foundation for a further reduction in inflation , already reduced in the previous year from 17 per cent to around 8 per cent ; an increase in jobs and output ; and an improved standard of living . |
| 11 | The Middle East International of Feb. 22 described the anti-war movement as " relatively inactive " , although Marseille dockers from the communist CGT trade union refused on Feb. 13 to load arms , ammunition and equipment for the Gulf . |
| 12 | We were living in a spectacular era : Mussolini made war on hapless Ethiopia ; after the death of King George V came the brief reign of Edward VIII , his abdication and marriage to Mrs Wallis Simpson ; then the happier reign of King George VI . |
| 13 | The proven complicity of Miura , the Japanese envoy , in the brutal murder of the Korean queen in October 1895 drove the Korean king , fearful for his safety , to seek asylum in the Russian legation . |
| 14 | The dominant force in British 750 bike racing in 1993 added the Super Cup series to his British Superbike Championship with two runaway wins on the 2.6 mile Grand Prix track . |
| 15 | Opposed by the United States and Israel , Resolution 44/217 of Dec. 22 deplored the continued US trade embargo against Nicaragua . |
| 16 | Screening of the EMBL3 gene bank with terminal Eco RI fragments from LPw2-13 identified the overlapping clone LPw3-1.1 . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1780 came the long-awaited summons . |
| 18 | As Section 2 showed the European community has demonstrated an increasing enthusiasm 1979 for the use of major investment in infrastructure as a means of promoting European integration . |
| 19 | A presidential decree of Nov. 2 ordered the compulsory sale by enterprises in 1991 of 40 per cent of their hard-currency earnings to the Bank for Foreign Economic Relations , to help repay the Soviet Union 's foreign debt . |
| 20 | 154 followed the same routing as the trolleybuses , but 157 covered different roads between Wallington and Morden . |
| 21 | In the continuing controversy over election results in a small number of parliamentary seats [ see pp. 36983-84 for October 1989 general election ] , the regional High Court in Murcia on March 2 awarded the one seat still at issue there back to the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) . |
| 22 | Human rights activists on April 12 challenged the official assertion that the victims had been killed by " criminals " . |
| 23 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on June 30 released the first tranche worth US$647,000,000 of a US$2,200 million standby credit approved in September 1991 [ see p. 38439 ] . |
| 24 | Following his return to Japan , Kaifu on Oct. 12 addressed the Japanese parliament at the beginning of a special 30-day session , called to discuss the issue of whether Japanese Self-Defence Force personnel could be sent as a " peace corps " of civilians and soldiers to participate in UN peacekeeping missions to the Gulf . |
| 25 | At its end , the first census of 1801 recorded the unprecedented population of 9.2 million ; a decisive break with the past . |
| 26 | The big scroll in the frieze between Pope Calixtus II and the Emperor Henry V contained the first words of the text of the Concordat of Worms of 1122 , with the rest of the text to be found elsewhere in the hall . |
| 27 | The capture of Côte 304 represented the first breach in the ‘ Line of Resistance ’ that Pétain had prescribed on taking up his command , and with it the stage was set for the final German attack on the Mort Homme , with the elder Falkenhayn once again in command . |
| 28 | There was also a chance that plants might be stolen and Collinson reported in January 1751 , ‘ … to my great loss , some prying , knowing people looked into the cases and out of that numbered 2 took the three roots of Chamaerhododendron , honey laurel , root of silver-leaved arum and the Spirea alnifolio … |
| 29 | 1834 saw the legal end to this practice ( at least in theory ) when Edwin Chadwick drafted , and Parliament passed , the Poor Law Amendment Act . |
| 30 | ( c ) A description of the mechanics of ‘ netback ’ pricing ( the device to conceal discounts which became widespread during the mid-1980s ) in November 1985 gave the actual spot freight incurred on 1 tonne of Iranian Light crude travelling from Sirri to Rotterdam as $6.70 . |