Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [num] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in 1981 a question was asked about usual residence , UK censuses are de facto , i.e. individuals are enumerated on the basis of where they are at the time of the census ( This avoids the need to define the distinction between temporary and permanent residence ) . |
| 2 | Although by 1939 a total of 104 new trams had been delivered since 1933 , there was still a requirement for some new cars to replace the old open-sided Fleetwood cars which had been retained for seasonal use . |
| 3 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |
| 4 | A total of 1,767 businesses went under in the first quarter of this year , as against 2,074 a year earlier . |
| 5 | Through SHACE , meetings of subject specialists , related to the Higher National Diploma , now take place and this organisation , under the chairmanship of a member of Sector O Board , was able to assist SCOTVEC when in 1986 a revision of the Higher National Diploma was required to retain exemption status from the Hotel , Catering and Institutional Management ( HCIMA ) Professional examination . |
| 6 | When in 1939 a repetition of the conditions encountered during the First World War once more led the government to intervene in agriculture then the conditions were also created for a renewed round of trade union growth . |
| 7 | And when in 1937 a questionnaire was distributed to authors about their attitude towards the Spanish Civil War , he sent the reply ( which he said that he never expected to be published ) that , " While I am naturally sympathetic I still feel convinced that it is best that at least a few men of letters remain silent " . |
| 8 | For although the Home Rule movement did for a time grow apace , with an ever increasing number of SNP candidates being elected to Parliament and , under the Callaghan administration , the old High School building on Calton Hill being refurbished to accommodate a Scottish debating-chamber ( the old one had become incorporated in the Law Courts ) , the idea of Home Rule made many of my countrymen uneasy ; less , I think , about financial disadvantages ( for oil revenue would have compensated for that ) than at the prospect of feuding between east and west , north and south , and , for some , the prospect of a semi-permanent Labour administration ; and when in 1979 a referendum of the whole Scottish nation was held , the votes in favour of Home Rule did not attain the clear 40 per cent majority on which the House of Commons had insisted . |
| 9 | How else to account for what at the time seemed wildly erratic behaviour , when in 1977 a group of distinguished architects and others , members of the newly formed Spitalfields Trust , squatted in two derelict early Georgian houses in Elder Street , thwarting the property developer 's bulldozers by sheer persistence . |
| 10 | The church of course continued its opposition to artificial restrictions of birth and this was reaffirmed in 1908 , though by 1914 a pamphlet circulated to clergy and churchworkers , The Misuse of Marriage , advocated the safe period in certain cases where the health of the wife was unequal to the burden , or the home conditions were bad . |