Example sentences of "[Wh det] four [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This onslaught was driven back by a police baton charge in the course of which four youths were slightly hurt . |
| 2 | He made no comment on the ‘ workstart pilots ’ scheme under which four schemes in different parts of the country will test how effective it is to encourage the recruitment of long-term unemployed people by paying a temporary subsidy to employees . |
| 3 | Who can remember what four things which four things go into a blast furnace ? |
| 4 | Skipper Townsend 's 19th-minute strike proved decisive in an acrimonious cup-tie in which four players were booked and Chelsea 's Gareth Hall was sent off . |
| 5 | Other attacks included : ( i ) an explosion at the offices of the French Banque Nationale de Paris in Athens on March 10 , 1989 , which a group calling itself Revolutionary Solidarity claimed was in support of the French urban guerrilla organization Action Directe ; ( ii ) a bomb attack on April 10 on a judge 's apartment in Athens for which the May 1 Revolutionary Organization claimed responsibility and threatened to attack any judge supporting the extradition to the USA of Muhammad Rashid [ see p. 36667 ] ; ( iii ) a bomb attack on the Justice Ministry on June 1 and on three government offices in Athens and Piraeus on June 13 for which the Revolutionary Popular Struggle ( ELA ) claimed responsibility ; ( iv ) car-bomb attacks on three US vehicles near Athens on Oct. 22 in which four Greeks were slightly injured and for which ELA claimed responsibility ; ( v ) a car-bomb attack on March 19 , 1990 , which injured a former senior British Petroleum executive ; and ( vi ) attacks on 12 cars belonging to East European and Arab diplomats on March 27 , for which an organization called Social Resistance claimed responsibility on behalf of the " vested rights of Third-World countries " . |
| 6 | Here , for the first time , Mozart demonstrated to the full his superlative skill in making music a medium for the expression of human emotions — in such highlights as Ilia 's aria ‘ Padre , germani , addio ’ , which expresses her conflict between love for her enemy and duty to her native country ; Idomeneus ' aria ‘ Fuor del mar ’ , in which the king describes how , although he is physically safe , his mind is still storm-tossed by dark forebodings ; and the masterly quartet ‘ Andrò rammingo e solo ’ — one of the great operatic ensembles of all time — in which four characters all express different emotions . |
| 7 | They broke off some pieces of dead cow parsley stalk to make a rough sort of chair for Dorcas , which four nomes could carry . |
| 8 | The trial follows the Antares tragedy in which four fishermen drowned after a submarine snagged its nets in the Firth of Clyde . |
| 9 | THE adventure centre at the heart of the canoeing tragedy in which four teenagers died earlier this year has been sold and is to close with the loss of 20 jobs , it was announced yesterday . |
| 10 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 11 | The first will be designed to bring English and Welsh law into line with Scottish law , which four years ago , under the Debtors ( Scotland ) Act 1987 , abolished in Scotland the medieval barbarity of putting people in prison for civil debt . |
| 12 | In general terms , each faculty offers an Ordinary or General degree , for which three years of study are required , and a number of degrees with honours for which four years of study are required . |
| 13 | Efforts to identify the coeliac toxic amino acid sequence , which presumably acts as a T cell immunogen , have focussed on the wheat prolamin , gliadin , whose four subfractions α , Β , and γ , are thought to be toxic to patients with coeliac disease . |
| 14 | When Robson was appointed England manager in 1982 he was succeeded at Portman Road by Ferguson , whose four years in charge ended with the club 's relegation to the Second Division . |
| 15 | Here we 've only got er what four minutes less than that remaining Leicester leading |
| 16 | Who can remember what four things which four things go into a blast furnace ? |
| 17 | So what four things ? |
| 18 | Now assuming he knows what four times two is and assuming he knows what two plus one is and so on , he may come up with the answer ‘ Nine ’ , or he may come up with the answer ‘ Twelve ’ , and they 're both right . |
| 19 | What four tapes ? |
| 20 | What four tapes ? |