Example sentences of "[num] and a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was created baronet in 1895 and a privy councillor in 1906 . |
| 2 | Li Peng held " very fruitful " talks with President Hossain Mohammad Ershad during his visit to Bangladesh on Nov. 17-19 , signing four agreements and a note of exchange , including a long-term trade agreement for 1990-94 and a soft loan for Bangladesh worth about $40,000,000 . |
| 3 | Under the Metropolitan Poor Act of 1867 and a Poor Law Amendment Act of the following year , Poor Law Guardians were able to create separate infirmaries — pauper hospitals . |
| 4 | Calculate the net effect on national income of an increase in C of 12 and a simultaneous increase in T of 20 . |
| 5 | Inactivation of the octamer binding site results in a higher level of gene expression in cells which contain only Oct-1 and a lower level in cells containing the cervical octamer binding protein indicating that whilst Oct-1 binding reduces promoter activity , the cervical protein increases it . |
| 6 | Thus Mack and Laimins ( 25 ) have shown that another site distinct from the one characterized here and located at nucleotides 7641–7675 in the HPV 18 URR also binds both Oct-1 and a keratinocyte-specific protein although this site is not conserved in the HPV 16 URR . |
| 7 | In agreement with this idea several groups have recently shown that this site does indeed represent a functional binding site for octamer binding proteins ( 12–14 ) and we have demonstrated that it can bind both the constitutively expressed octamer binding protein Oct-1 and a novel octamer binding protein expressed in cervical cells ( 15 ) . |
| 8 | Tony Paignton , although only twenty-one and a merry-faced person bubbling over with fun , was an intensely serious young man . |
| 9 | ‘ Twenty-one and a good bit . ’ |
| 10 | In the New Zealand study , for example , out of the 79 defended cases looked at , consent was the principal defence in 49 and a subsidiary defence in a further nine . |
| 11 | An interim dividend of 2.9p per share was paid on 20th January 1993 and a final dividend of 6.1p per share is recommended to be paid on 27th August 1993 to those shareholders on the register at the close of business on 2nd July 1993 . |
| 12 | It forecast an increase in sales to 1.98 trillion yen ( dlrs 17.0 billion ) in 1993 and a net profit of 40 billion yen ( dlrs 345 million ) . |
| 13 | Instead we can clearly see a growth from 1989–94 , a slight fall from the peak in 1993 and a substantial fall in 1994 . |
| 14 | These included a reduction in value added tax from 18 to 17 per cent at the start of 1993 and a 4 percentage point cut in the corporate tax rate to 36 per cent spread over the 1993-97 period . |
| 15 | organisation of the first European Enterprise Lecture in September 1993 and a third Enterprise Lecture in Spring 1994 . |
| 16 | In a glacial cirque basin 48 m above sea level and 800 m from the shore , it has a surface area of 15 000 m 2 and a mean depth of 3.4 m . |
| 17 | It lies in two adjoining basins 4 m above sea level and 200 m from the shore , with a surface area of 45 000 m 2 and a mean depth of 2.0 m . |
| 18 | For nearly 3 years they 've made the 2 and a half mile trip from their temporary classrooms back to their homes . |
| 19 | The operation follows an armed robbery at a village post post office near Reading and a 2 and a half hour police chase during which an inspector was shot at . |
| 20 | A new Transit Shed measuring 4500m 2 and a covered storage area measuring 840m 2 has been provided while the surrounding areas have been concreted to allow easy movement of cargo handling machinery . |
| 21 | The symmetric T network of figure 8.2(d) comprising two equal resistances R 2 and a different resistance R 1 is therefore also suitable for the purpose . |
| 22 | The textbase STATLT holding the statutes for England has been developed and refined in a series of projects since 1980 and at the start of the project described here already provided a very detailed definition of the data structure [ 1 ] , full text-searching facilities , symbolic addressing in the manner of Figure 2 and a multi-valued attribute marg-note-xref in each text unit to record cross-references made to other parts of the text [ 23 ] . |
| 23 | Introducing the variable , it is seen that when this second contribution is but when it is To summarise , the foregoing analysis has established that the complete Fourier spectrum of a unit step function comprises a delta function centred on zero frequency that provides the mean direct level of one-half and a continuous spectrum of sinewaves with amplitude that provides the unit step about the mean . |
| 24 | On the import side , the dollar figures show a substantial fall from 1981 to 1983 , followed by a fairly stable level until 1985 and a substantial rise in 1986 ( the year of ‘ programmed inflation ’ and the Party Congress ) . |
| 25 | Future joint space observatories include the first large gamma ray observatory in 1985 and a cooled telescope for studying very short radio waves in 1987 . |
| 26 | All the published sermons preached at St Paul 's Cross in London from 1570 onwards took a firm Calvinist line on predestination , and the theology faculties at the universities dispensed doctrinal Calvinism to those training for the ministry ; meanwhile the laity were provided with the Genevan Bible in 1560 and a Calvinist catechism in 1563 . |
| 27 | As argued earlier , for prevalence to have risen to over 1,000 in 1984–5 from a very low baseline in 1979 and a major acceleration in the incidence rate around 1982–3 , annual incidence for the five agencies must have been over 400 during 1984–5 , compared with nearer 300 in 1985–6 . |
| 28 | Mandatory reselection was won in 1979 and a new method for electing the leader of the party was adopted in 1981 which gave trade unions and constituency parties a major say , but there has still to be a change in the way in which the party manifesto is drawn up . |
| 29 | Britannia Hotels made a gross profit of £11.9 million in 1991 and a net profit after tax of over £200,000 , taking into account the increased payments to the two directors . |
| 30 | The Fono was dissolved in February 1991 and a general election was held on April 5 , some weeks later than had originally been scheduled because of the difficulties involved in registering the 80,000 newly enfranchised electors . |