Example sentences of "[num] a [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1885 a Scottish Secretary was appointed , and in the 1920s he was elevated to Secretary of State . |
| 2 | So in 1972 a new secretary was appointed for the task , Anthony Gray , who worked away for some years and helped set it on its feet again . |
| 3 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 4 | In 1439 a further attempt was made to secure a diplomatic settlement when the French , the English , and the Burgundians ( but not the representatives of the Church , excluded by the English for their alleged partiality at Arras ) met near Calais in the summer of that year . |
| 5 | In 1404 the city obtained the right to have a mayor , but this was followed by conflicts , and in 1417 a new charter was granted , which established a civic constitution . |
| 6 | In 1881 a socialist organization was formed with a mainly intellectual leadership , and it was obliged to confront the possibility of the recreation of Poland out of the territories held by the Tsar ( the part known as the Kingdom of Poland ) , the Habsburgs and the Hohenzollerns of Prussia . |
| 7 | On Feb. 2 a mass rally was held in Tallinn ( the Estonian capital ) to mark the 70th anniversary of the Tartu peace treaty , whereby Soviet Russia had recognized Estonia 's independence . |
| 8 | However , in January 1985 a new librarian was appointed and senior staff expressed hope that , industrial action permitting , the committee would be reconvened in due course . |
| 9 | In 1985 a working party was set up to formulate the CAB 's anti-racist policy , briefed by NACAB central office 's ethnic minorities specialist services officer and the growing Black Workers Group . |
| 10 | This culminated in a call for the CUC to become a high-profile campaigning body and in 1985 a working party was set up to consider the future role and shape of the CUC . |
| 11 | In 1985 a land-drainage scheme was carried out on the river Erewash near Eastwood in Nottinghamshire . |
| 12 | In 1985 a further Act was passed which went beyond controlling the operation of existing local governments , when the Greater London Council ( created in 1965 ) and metropolitan county councils ( created in 1974 ) were abolished and their responsibilities transferred either to borough/district councils or to joint authorities of various types . |
| 13 | In November , 1985 a further letter was sent to every institution that had not replied , requesting information about difficulties in responding . |
| 14 | In Spring 1985 a follow-up survey is planned to examine the employment and other destinations of students some six months after the end of the IT Advanced Course . |
| 15 | At the 13th congress of the Spanish Communist Party ( PCE ) in Madrid on Dec. 19-22 a key issue was the PCE 's future as an independent party within the United Left ( IU ) alliance . |
| 16 | In 1894 a second Congress was held in Leeds and delegates began constructing a national organization composed of county federations and councils in towns with a population over 50,000 . |
| 17 | In 1828 a Wesleyan chapel was built , followed in the early 1840s by a chapel of ease to Beverley Minster known as the church of St Paul . |
| 18 | On Oct. 26 a further search was made and Wolfgang Pöhl , the party treasurer , and another party official were arrested the same day under suspicion of embezzling party funds . |
| 19 | In 1877 a new strand was created in the bond between Nonconformist England and Protestant America . |
| 20 | In 1898 a second well was bored to a depth of 398 ft supplying a further 24,000 gallons per hour , and by 1907 these two wells operated by two steam driven pumps were supplying 250 million gallons yearly , and in July of that year a record was reached of 1 1/2 million gallons in one day . |
| 21 | In 1842 a new newspaper was launched in Turin . |
| 22 | 7 A second attack is then instituted , using the same technique . |
| 23 | In July 1932 a military force was dispatched under the Army Chief of Staff , Douglas MacArthur , accompanied by his aide , Major Dwight Eisenhower . |
| 24 | These gained so much in esteem that in 1932 a bold decision was taken to scrap existing plant and to concentrate on the production of chenille Axminster and spool Axminster carpets and rugs ’ . |
| 25 | In January 1975 a Steering Committee was set up to recommend how the coalition should develop its electoral tactics and strategy . |
| 26 | During the Seventies a hazy eroticism was on offer every week , courtesy of Pan 's People in their gold Lurex hot pants . |
| 27 | In 1969 a new unit was formally set up in Edinburgh to study the geology of the continental shelf around Scotland . |
| 28 | On Oct. 21 a five-year contract was signed by Iscor , the South African steel group , and six leading Japanese steel companies . |
| 29 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 30 | However , after 1984 a greater emphasis was placed on schemes designed to boost the physical regeneration of the inner cities . |