Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The troll was out to lunch , the sky did not fall in and the three pals arrived without mishap at the Gruff 's house . |
| 2 | Each of these ideas is considered separately although the two processes are inter-related . |
| 3 | The government 's gathered together knowledgable bodies like the trust into the Ruddy duck Working Group to find out if the two species can be kept apart . |
| 4 | We proposed previously that the three patterns of physical relation between H pylori and gastric epithelium could represent stages in evolution of bacterial infection . |
| 5 | Often the vendors and the purchasers each appoint a firm of chartered accountants to act for them in determining the relevant amount and reference to a third accountant occurs only if the two firms can not agree on that amount . |
| 6 | It had done better than the 5.30 Sunday Classic Serial and had proved an effective challenge to ITV 's Saturday afternoon serial , The Buccaneers . |
| 7 | Within half an hour the wings are fully distended so that the two sides of the bag meet flat against one another enclosing the veins between them . |
| 8 | All the occupants of Teignmouth had fled as the French came ashore and the 500 horse militia which assembled on Haldon [ or Halden ] Hill , some two miles [ 3.2 km ] behind Teignmouth , simply watched as the invaders tore down the thatch from the cottages before setting them on fire . |
| 9 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 10 | Shop prices in Russia and the Ukraine have risen sharply as the two countries take their first steps to a market economy by removing state controls . |
| 11 | Shaw says simply that the two sides have an ‘ excellent ’ deal . |
| 12 | It will be seen again that the four ogres — anxiety , fear , guilt and anger — all play their parts . |
| 13 | Expressing this concept quantitatively and analytically solving the differential equations for the heat budget of the two layers , we showed rigorously that the two regimes are separated by a critical concentration where is the density of the fluid at the constant temperature of the lower fluid layer , is the particle density , α is the coefficient of thermal expansion of the fluid and T u is the temperature of the upper fluid . |
| 14 | Ranulf and Maltote following suit just as the two crossbow quarrels came whirring out of the darkness , skimming the tops of their heads . |
| 15 | Thursday night in Galway is the night to be seen out in the town : - ) , but I 've still got more than the two brain cells needed to see through your ploy Tim . |
| 16 | She was cleaned up and the four adults sat round the table and played Scrabble . |
| 17 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 18 | The reign began badly when the IX Legion , commanded by an incompetent Legate , was lured by treacherous barbarian allies into the swamps of Dacia , and completely wiped out . |
| 19 | To do this , the cases are reordered so that the X values are in order , as shown in the first two columns of figure 10.6 . |
| 20 | The spectrum he detected signalled the presence of a new molecular species , tight had caused the parent molecule to lose its two hydrogen atoms and rearrange so that the two carbon rings sandwiched the tungsten atom . |
| 21 | The normally aspirated Ninety diesel should perform better than the 2.25 Series III vehicles you have run before . |
| 22 | More obscenities followed just as the two men were hurrying to catch up with Comfort , and then the woman stopped dead in front of Comfort and spat in her face . |
| 23 | Some never get further than the nine railway termini which connect the capital to every part of the former Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 25 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 26 | Similar words not derived in this way do not have the syllabic — it has been pointed out that the two words ‘ coddling ’ ( derived from the verb ‘ coddle ’ ) and ‘ codling ’ ( meaning ‘ small cod ’ , derived by adding the diminutive suffix ‘ -ling ’ to ‘ cod ’ ) show a contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic : ‘ coddling ’ and ‘ codling ’ . |
| 27 | It has already been pointed out that the 1975 glitch left a persistent increase of 0.05% in slowdown rate ; the available data between 1975 and 1989 show no indication of a decay in this increase . |
| 28 | Poland 's exports to the Soviet Union had fallen sharply since the two countries began trading in hard currency in January . |
| 29 | Whichever way they are danced they must be set so that the one step grows logically out of the other because the music and the dancer have become excited by their relationship as the dance unfolds . |
| 30 | In those early days Bain worked out that the 23 houses most under threat could have been rescued and restored for £240,000 . |