Example sentences of "[num] and [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below the Foundation Stone a later tablet was unveiled on 3 April 1960 to commemorate T W T Jackson who was born in 1895 and died in 1956 . |
| 2 | TPM is implemented in prolog-2 and runs on SUN-3 and SUN-4 machines . |
| 3 | My own autograph hunting was conducted with boyish enthusiasm at Trent Bridge in the late 19920s and early 30s and began in inauspicious circumstances . |
| 4 | A Port of Grimsby Stokers ' and Sailors ' Amalgamated Society registered as a trade union in 1872 and lasted until 1895 , though nothing more is known about it . |
| 5 | He sold the chemist 's business in 1872 and moved to new premises at Plymouth Hoe . |
| 6 | Newspaper attacks brought down two French prime ministers , Ferry in 1885 and Caillaux in 1911 , in both cases with considerable international repercussions . |
| 7 | Among the highlights of the two sales , and selling well above its £10,000–15,000 estimate at Christie 's was a Sevres soup plate from the Catherine II service , ordered in 1776 and consisting of 797 pieces of which seventy-two were soup-plates . |
| 8 | Under the agreement EC airlines would be free to set their own tariffs from January 1993 and to fly between any EC country . |
| 9 | Notice of Election is due to be published on 12 August 1993 with the nomination period commencing on Wednesday , 13 August 1993 and closing at 4.00 pm on Tuesday , 24 August 1993 . |
| 10 | The double tracked and 9½ mile line was started in 1808 and completed in 1811 . |
| 11 | The relevant German national legislation was Article 613 of the introduced in 1972 and amended in 1980 to take account of the Directive . |
| 12 | At the University of Denver Computer-Assisted Library instruction was developed in 1972 and used until 1977 . |
| 13 | But Comdisco made a bundle leasing 3090-Es , upgrading its base of original 3090s and navigating past most of the rocks and shoals of the mainframe disk business , which was adjusting to IBM 's impressive 3380-K drives . |
| 14 | So , all possible peptides with proline at 2 and tyrosine at 8 or 10 , as well as their allelic variants , were also tested . |
| 15 | Yemen abstained on 5 votes and Cuba opposed 2 and abstained on 3 . |
| 16 | Contracts for the sale of Vertigo were exchanged on 14 May 1985 and completed on 16 August . |
| 17 | The Vienna Convention on its protection was negotiated in 1985 and followed in 1987 by the Montreal Protocol , which provides for the control of CFCs and halons . |
| 18 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |
| 19 | ( The Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act , passed in 1985 and amended in 1987 [ see pp. 34094-95 ; 35895-96 ] , was designed to eliminate the deficit by 1993 . ) |
| 20 | Under the terms of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings deficit reduction legislation ( the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act , passed in 1985 and amended in 1987 — see pp. 34094-95 ; 35895-96 ) there was a statutory requirement to reduce the deficit to $64,000 million by 1991 and to achieve its complete elimination by 1993 . |
| 21 | Goodwill arising on consolidation before 1st April 1985 and arising after 1st April 1990 is amortised through the profit and loss account over the directors ' estimate of its useful economic life . |
| 22 | Professor Walters left in 1985 and returned in 1989 . |
| 23 | Lawrie had 74 and McAllister a 75 in which he went out in 43 and returned in 32 . |
| 24 | Farther round the arc was the Soviet incursion into Afghanistan , which began in 1979 and lasted for most of 10 years , despite resistance by the Mujahedin . |
| 25 | Since 1945 the government has in effect alternated between the Labour and Conservative parties , the present Conservative administration headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher having been formed in 1979 and re-elected in 1983 and 1987 [ see pp. 29645 ; 32262 ; 35269 ] . |
| 26 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 27 | Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops . |
| 28 | The Directive is not significant in terms of inward investment into the UK ( exchange control was suspended in 1979 and abolished in 1987 , although the Directive will prevent its reintroduction in relation to other member states ) . |
| 29 | Benjamin Disraeli became Prime Minister of the British Parliament in 1874 and remained in that office until 1880 It was during his administration that Britain purchased a major holding of the shares of the Suez Canal Company |
| 30 | After considerable labour pressure the qualification was reduced to £5 in 1892 and abolished in 1894 . |