Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King George V always had strong views as to who was suitable for which office , and did not hesitate to express them to his Prime Ministers . |
| 2 | The political turmoil in England following the deposition of Edward II was too good an opportunity for Bruce to miss , even though the truce of 1323 still had nine years to run . |
| 3 | This propaganda role of the church was no mere cynical response to royal commands and requests ; many of the clergy were quite as deeply imbued with a sense of national self-righteousness as were substantial elements of the laity : Edward III later recalled that Archbishop Stratford had persuaded him of the need for such a war , though the king also told a tale of Stratford 's reluctance for war . |
| 4 | The Conservative government elected in 1979 also took this view and promised to reduce the rate of inflation which was then running at about 12 per cent by reducing the rate of growth of M3 . |
| 5 | MIKEL MARKU and ALI HAXHIU : ethnic Albanians , they died in November 1991 following alleged ill treatment in custody in Kosovo-Methohija province in southern Serbia . |
| 6 | The revolution of February 1917 further aggravated this situation and brought about disruption of industry . |
| 7 | Political ties between England and Gascony in the years before 1453 also had economic implications , because although the two had originally been linked by dynastic chance , their economies could complement each other . |
| 8 | The year 1165 also saw growing unrest in Saxony , where Henry as leader of the Guelphs , had gradually increased his power and field of influence , originally with the encouragement of his imperial overlord Frederick . |
| 9 | Oxfordshire in 1962 still had ten years to wait before the reorganization of local government which followed the Royal Commission on that subject chaired by Lord Redcliffe-Maud ( John Maud ) . |
| 10 | But it seems unlikely that the county 's total wintering population often exceeds some 500 birds , and complete counts made each January from 1972 to 1976 usually recorded smaller numbers , with 165 in 1972 , 215 in 1973 , 285 in 1974 , 490 in 1975 ; but 761 in 1976 . |
| 11 | Orders received before 4 p.m. delivered next day . |
| 12 | Parliament , by the Act of 1976 deliberately left these cases , where the children were born before the enactment of the Act of 1976 , to be decided by the law in force before the passing of that Act , that is to say the common law . |
| 13 | But the 1970s also saw another issue begin to emerge on the agenda of the expanding British nuclear industry . |
| 14 | Paschal II now used similar terms about lay investiture , and the absence of any mention of homage in this letter is significant . |
| 15 | The coming of war in 1914 quickly gave new impetus to the hitherto rather limited and amateurish propaganda efforts of governments . |
| 16 | The data indicated that a third of those who used peptic ulcer drugs in 1977–81 also used these drugs in 1989–90 , conditional on surviving this period . |
| 17 | The formation of the EEC in 1958 also saw substantial tariff reductions by member countries which increased competitive pressure on their industries . |
| 18 | Among these 17 patients , five also had endoscopic biopsies ; two at first had false negative biopsy specimens with malignancy found only on subsequent biopsies one month and one year later . |
| 19 | ‘ The oil price crisis in 1973 frankly took most people , both oil analysts and foreign policy analysts , by surprise , ’ says Sir Patrick . |
| 20 | The Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Jan. 17 said that the war " imposed " on the " fraternal Iraqi people " had been " forcefully rejected " , and the largest of all the protest demonstrations took place in Algiers , where a march organized by the fundamentalist Front Islamique du Salut ( FIS ) on Feb. 1 reportedly involved 400,000 people . |
| 21 | Realizing that not only Mrs Whittaker , but twelve newly arrived first-year students , were waiting for her in expectant silence , she pulled herself together . |
| 22 | Victims of modern faxitis , drowning in paper and worrying that the writing will disappear by 2000 AD had one reassurance . |
| 23 | Pressure group Transport 2000 recently claimed 100 miles of NorthEast track is already at risk . |
| 24 | Of these 197 still had commercial paper outstanding in May 1991 with a total value of £6.25 billion ( see Table 6.9 ) . |
| 25 | The radical idea was proposed twice , independently in Britain and Germany by two highly esteemed professional scientists , Alister Hardy and Max Westenhöfer . |
| 26 | One eats meat once a week , and only two ever ate fresh fruit . |
| 27 | The two rapidly became deadly enemies . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | I do not know whether the other two also had prior knowledge , but no one gave any indication to this effect as we all filed silently to the Cabinet Room . |
| 30 | The higher number of births from the mid-1950s and through the 1960s inevitably meant more pensioners sixty years on . |