Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 6.2 summarizes major evaluation projects over the five years from 1982–87 . |
| 2 | Table 10.1 summarizes some of the changes in women 's work , or at least its statistical visibility , over the twentieth century . |
| 3 | In the control group there were 14 people still at home at one year , but only eight lived alone and only four did so without closely involved relatives . |
| 4 | On the eighth end Ipswich , trailing 13–4 , dropped a maximum eight to fall 21–4 behind and could never catch up . |
| 5 | The privilege from self-incrimination is abrogated in bankruptcy proceedings not by the opening words of section 31 of the Theft Act 1968 , but by rule 6.175 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 made pursuant to section 412 of the Act of 1986 : |
| 6 | We have to go back to the first quarter of 1986 to see such a low figure for construction output per person in the past decade . |
| 7 | The untitled New Zealander , rated 2320 ( 345 points lower than top seed Tony Miles of England ) has seven points from eight games and shares the lead with Miles and the other grandmaster in the tournament , Ian Rogers of Australia . |
| 8 | Cinema-going was also increasing , with 101 million tickets the highest figure since 1980 sold last year . |
| 9 | As you can see from the drawing , this and the ‘ square ’ eight make simple yet testing manoeuvres . |
| 10 | But an increase in claims , especially against fire and damage to council owned property has forced MMI to suspend all payments of claims . |
| 11 | Currently , DVI operates at compression ratios of around 160:1 allowing 72 minutes of full motion , full screen video to be stored on a CD-ROM . |
| 12 | Bills completed by 1980 laid special emphasis on recycling and energy conversion . |
| 13 | US aid commitments to Zimbabwe began at $24m at Independence in 1980 , rose to $84m in 1982 , fell to $59m in 1984 and were set to fall well below $20m in early 1986 prior to a decision in September 1986 to cancel all future aid programmes … |
| 14 | It was sold by Violet 's trustees to Marcus Wickham Boynton who in 1948 sold 154 acres to the Air Ministry for Carnaby airfield . |
| 15 | As we can now see , the displacing of the ‘ linear ’ and quasi-geometrical as the dominant mode in New York ( and Parisian ) abstract art after 1943 offers another instance of that cyclical alternation of non-painterly , or linear , and painterly which has marked the evolution of Western art since the sixteenth century . |
| 16 | The Merchant Shipping ( Oil Pollution ) Act 1971 imposes civil liability upon the owner of a ship carrying a cargo of persistent oil in bulk for escape or discharge of persistent oil from the ship . |
| 17 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 18 | The course of agricultural and industrial development between 1919 and 1935 produced abundant evidence that Japan was closely tied to the fluctuations of the world economy and highly constrained in the resources at her disposal during a period of growing protectionism . |
| 19 | Like the ME-6 , the top of the ME-10 offers all the programming information at a glance ; plus , all the effects and their relevant parameters can be switched in and out just by pressing the corresponding label printed onto the membrane which covers the surface of the top . |
| 20 | The Footsie closed just 2.3 points higher at 2,840.0 . |
| 21 | Of the fourteen female characters in the book , eight remain nameless ; of the twenty-three male characters , only three fail to gain an identify in this way and are given no name . |
| 22 | Over 100 people were estimated to have been killed , and about 7,000 made homeless , by a series of explosions at an ammunition dump in the southern Addis Ababa suburb of Bekulo Bet on June 4 . |
| 23 | Of 32 planned gas-fired power stations , three-quarters are badly designed and likely to waste more than half the gas they use . |
| 24 | To this end it is creating a universal type for Cobol ‘ 97 to enable any message to be sent or any method to be invoked . |
| 25 | Hence , 75 , 74 , 73 , 72 and 71 became 1–5 , 70 became 6 , 68 became 7 , 65 became 8 , 60 , 59 , 58 and 56 became 9–13 . |
| 26 | Staining with ECCD-2 revealed several subpopulations of KC ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 27 | Section 6.1 encourages pro-active handling of home claims in particular to direct a policyholder to tradesman or suppliers with whom we have local or national arrangements . |
| 28 | It claims that the decision of the US National Academy of Sciences in the spring of 1980 to suspend all bilateral symposia , seminars and workshops involving the Soviet Academy , shows how actions often speak louder than words with the mammoth Soviet bureaucracy . |
| 29 | Twelve threes make thirty six . |
| 30 | Set them out like this okay so that 's three fours or four threes make twelve okay . |