Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How interesting it was , thought Dyson , how extraordinarily intriguing , to find that out of the whole team the only one who was actually turning up trumps was himself . |
| 2 | Both are members of the Penygroes RFC and I 'm pleased to report that out of the two games played , Penygroes won both , with scoring 6 tries , making the results 28–17 and 26–15 . |
| 3 | At the beginning of October 1983 I announced that out of a total staff of 817,633 we would ask for a reduction of 4,837 , which would save about £40 million . |
| 4 | He added that out of the 26 councils in Northumbria Water 's area only five no longer wished to collect payments for water . |
| 5 | whatever you , whatever your grant is whether it 's eight hundred pounds , parents subsidize that up to the two thousand whatever |
| 6 | Farms are a soft target for arsonists , according to a report which says that up to a third of farm fires are caused deliberately . |
| 7 | Figures show that out of every 1,000 skiers , 35 are involved in an accident — yet one in ten of us do n't bother to take out insurance . |
| 8 | Ellstrand estimated that up to a third of all crop varieties are pollinated by insects . |
| 9 | Characteristic of Lanzarote are the numerous cones of extinct volcanoes , their surfaces smoothed and round by the dry , fierce winds heading out across the Atlantic from the Moroccan Sahara . |
| 10 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 11 | When the suit is wet , it traps a thin layer of water between the body and the suit and your body quickly warms that up to a comfortable working temperature but if you fall in when the suit is dry , the cold water can be quite a shock and so a good trick in cold weather is to put the wet suit on in a hot shower and then over the top you wear a spray suit again to keep off the wind and to protect the wetsuit . |
| 12 | It was not , as has been suggested , the popularity of the style among competitors which forced the judges to award a preponderance of prizes to designs in this style , as an examination of Clarke 's catalogue and the lists in various journals shows that out of the wide variety of stylistic appellations , it was largely those described as French Renaissance which were awarded prizes . |
| 13 | The document published yesterday shows that out of the 5.46 million offences reported in the 12 months until June 1992 , 1.29 million were burglaries , 931,000 thefts from vehicles and 572,000 thefts of vehicles . |
| 14 | Yet it was able to produce a score sheet which showed that out of a possible score of 100 , the Peoples Solidarity Party came first with 43.90 , followed by the Nigerian National Congress ( 42.62 ) , the Peoples Front of Nigeria ( 41.20 ) and the Liberal Convention ( 34.08 ) . |
| 15 | Despite the ill-judged backing of Parliament in the civil war , the family flourished and up to the present century remained prominent in Cornish — and national — affairs . |
| 16 | It was surely going to be a doddle , taking up the slabs , using part of the profile of the old pond to define the layout of the new , then some easy digging , smoothing , measuring and down to the aquatic shop for a liner . |
| 17 | Not even defeat by an American team whose followers barely understand the rules will persuade him that he has nowhere left to go but out of the national manager 's chair . |
| 18 | Time to first print is roughly 45 seconds and multi-copy printing pulls that up to the rated 6 pages per minute claimed for the unit . |
| 19 | And you ask us to believe that out of a dozen car-parks and hundreds of side streets you could have chosen you picked this place by chance ? |
| 20 | There are those who believe that out of a divided society you can create a unitary section . |
| 21 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 22 | Cranston made the man repeat the message as he reluctantly took than out of the main hall and up the wide , spacious stairs to one of the duke 's private chambers . |
| 23 | By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts . |
| 24 | An attendance rate of 90% for a week means that out of the 1000 possible attendances over the week , 900 were recorded . |
| 25 | Speaking at an Amnesty International meeting in Blackpool , Mr Waldegrave said that up to a few years ago the Soviet Union 's record was appalling and its policy unyielding . |
| 26 | The National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) which advises the government on radiation hazards , now estimates that up to a hundred people will have died from the fallout . |
| 27 | In batch mode the user can request that up to the total number of charge codes established in the system are included in the Listing . |
| 28 | You could say that out of the simple song there came the poem capable of expressing in a short length deep thoughts . |
| 29 | The overwhelming evidence from research studies into NHS decision-making , summarised by Harrison , demonstrates that up to the early 1980s the culture of NHS management was shaped by their relatively weak position vis-à-vis doctors ( Harrison 1988 ) . |
| 30 | The incidence of high rates of non-returners is borne out in a Far Eastern Economic Review report which suggested that out of the 50,000 scholars sent abroad since 1978 , at the start of the reform decade , only 20,000 have returned . |