Example sentences of "[num] was [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most influential of the European ecological botanists was the Dane , Eugenius Warming ( 1841–1924 ) , whose Plantesamfund of 1895 was translated into German the following year and into English as Oecology of Plants in 1909 . |
| 2 | Draft clause 12 was enacted as section 15 ( which I have reproduced above ) and section 16 of the Act of 1968 and has got rid of some defects and difficulties which had arisen from section 32 of the Act of 1916 and from judicial interpretations of that section . |
| 3 | Bach 's Prelude in C Major was movingly played by his mother ; Beethoven 's String Quartet No 12 was performed by family friends , the Busch Quartet ; Mozart 's Jeunehomme Concerto with his pal of 70 years , Rudolf Serkin , at the piano … |
| 4 | The message of the way ahead in 1993 was communicated via Team Briefing and a special newsletter . |
| 5 | Leucine-CO 2 was liberated by reaction with ninhydrin at pH 2.2 , and its enrichment measured along the lines described by Halliday and Reid using a gas isotope ratio mass spectrometer , SIRA 12 ( VG Isogas , Middlewhich , Cheshire , UK ) . |
| 6 | She died before the case came to trial but a written statement signed by her on 16 December 1985 was received into evidence under the Civil Evidence Act 1968 . |
| 7 | On their return to the UK , Peter became branch manager Pest Control in central London and in 1985 was promoted to area manager London where he achieved considerable success in developing all aspects of the business . |
| 8 | What he most enjoyed were the historical investigations , the satisfaction of demonstrating , as he had only last month , that a document dated 1872 was printed on paper containing chemical wood-pulp which was first used in 1874 , a discovery which had initiated a fascinating unravelling of complicated documentary fraud . |
| 9 | Trials were initially only conducted upon people with advanced cancer ( ie , inoperable , widespread disease ) for whom conventional therapy had failed , but once the efficacy of interleukin-2 was established for melanoma , patients were treated without previous trials of other cytotoxic therapies . |
| 10 | Either way , it was a figure of about 1.25 million that was implied , for a further 214,000 was added in order to allow for a measure of free choice . |
| 11 | The resulting fraction DS 0.15 ( 0.5mg protein/ml ) containing IIIC , TBP and pol III was dialysed against buffer 2 . |
| 12 | Item — King Alexander III was murdered by Person or Persons unknown though for what reasons , and by what means , are still a mystery . |
| 13 | During the period of his personal government , however , Henry III was compelled by shortage of money to follow the practice of Richard I and John of selling charters of disafforestment . |
| 14 | This appears especially curious as the issue of providing powers was assuming considerable national importance for the WEA which in 1929 was pressing for retention of its Chapter III providing powers during the Board of Education 's review of the 1924 Regulations . |
| 15 | Later he became a commercial agent , and in 1804 was arrested for debt in Archangel . |
| 16 | The Bristow Helicopters S-61 was descending through cloud into Aberdeen when the pilot spotted the huge warplanes below him . |
| 17 | He was then expelled from the party on June 30 but readmitted on July 4 and at a party congress on July 7 was re-elected as party leader by 373 votes to 179 . |
| 18 | At the same time , the MDC was doubled in size by the addition of 800 acres on either side of the River Mersey in which about £90 million will be spent over eight years . |
| 19 | Twenty-five years ago , the line built by George Stephenson in 1836 was saved from closure and took on a new lease of life as the North Yorkshire Moors Railway . |
| 20 | Jöllenbeck 's programme in the Seventies was varied in nature and nationality , showing Armand , American Photo-realists , the English artist John Newling and the Dutch artist Paul Thek , among others . |
| 21 | Indeed , one old lady of 94 was interviewed on television and she proudly told the presenter ‘ I can now walk faster than my daughter — and she 's only 72 ! ’ |
| 22 | His succession to the English crown in 1154 at the age of 21 was hailed with relief by those worn down by insurrection and counter-bargaining . |
| 23 | As a result the aircraft proved a failure and following a spectacular crash at the Paris air show in 1964 was withdrawn from service altogether . |
| 24 | Like Mary Kingsley she was down-to-earth and when her expedition reached Abu Simbel she was horrified to see that the colossal figure of Rameses II was disfigured by plaster left on it fifty years before by an enthusiastic cast-maker . |
| 25 | Queen Elizabeth II was replaced as head of state by the former Governor General , Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau , who was sworn in as President on Dec. 5 . |
| 26 | James II was conveyed by stratagem in a chest to Leith from Edinburgh Castle and then on to Stirling by sea . |
| 27 | In one , experimental therapy with interleukin II was attempted without success . |
| 28 | Jarman has just been honoured by Bafta with the Michael Balcon Award for outstanding achievement and Edward II was released on video last month . |
| 29 | In the race , the 905 was delayed by tyre , ignition and handling problems but , after Rosberg had revelled in the rain , it was there at the finish , 13th . |
| 30 | Following the further arguments of which we have had the benefit , I should find it very difficult , in conscience , to reach a conclusion adverse to the appellants on the basis of a technical rule of construction requiring me to ignore the very material which in this case indicates unequivocally which of the two possible interpretations of section 63(2) of the Act of 1976 was intended by Parliament . |