Example sentences of "[verb] [noun sg] [prep] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She taught English , mainly in teacher training colleges , becoming vice-principal of one and then Principal of Charlotte Mason College , Ambleside until 1970 . |
| 2 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 3 | One patient with Crohn 's colitis had CDAI of 376 ( main symptoms were diarrhoea and feeling unwell ) and scan score of 13.1 but only ‘ mild ’ inflammatory changes were demonstrated endoscopically and histologically . |
| 4 | Negotiating is an activity that seeks to reach agreement between two or more different starting positions . |
| 5 | In Ecgfrith 's case , by the same principle , if he was killed in the fifteenth year of his reign and had only been king fourteen years , he may have become king in 671 and certainly could not have done so before 21 May 670 . |
| 6 | Hirst ( 1969 , 1974 ) divides knowledge into seven or so distinct or irreducible forms : mathematics , the physical sciences , the human sciences and history , literature and the fine arts , morals , religion , and philosophy . |
| 7 | No we wo n't , because , essentially , if you give yourself one target like the exchange rate , then you lose control over one or possibly both of interest rates and money supply , both of which the government has always claimed , are absolutely fundamental to maintaining their control over the economy . |
| 8 | Bald started work in 1809 and soon secured other appointments in Mayo , first as one of the engineers employed by the government to survey the bogs of Ireland and later as a road engineer . |
| 9 | 5 ‘ Increasingly children are starting school at six or even five years of age , so that they finish primary school when they are too young to become responsible young workers and citizens . |
| 10 | Among injecting drug users , the peak in HIV incidence took place in 1985 and so the number of AIDS cases is still climbing . |
| 11 | Each eruption gives rise to one or sometimes more columns of hot fluid rising through the interior region . |
| 12 | These amendments postponed the original 1975–6 carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon vehicle emission standards until 1980–1 , and established a relaxed standard for oxides of nitrogen ( the revision readjusted the balance between air quality and fuel economy by raising the emission limit from 0.4 to 1.0 grams per mile ) to take effect in 1981 or even later ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 13 | Apart from the youngest , all my sisters left school at sixteen or so and got married shortly afterwards , whereas I went on to university . |
| 14 | The bivariate relationship between terminal education age and preparedness to break the law suggests a different conclusion about the relationship between education and respect for the law in Britain in 1984 : more of those who left school at 16 or above say they are prepared to break the law ( 0.364 ) than do those who left at 15 or younger ( 0.274 ) , a difference of +0.090 . |
| 15 | Rogers left school at ten or earlier and became an errand boy . |
| 16 | They also promise a ‘ return to learn ’ entitlement of up to a year 's full time education for people aged more than 50 and who left school at 15 or earlier . |
| 17 | The general procedure was for the editorial staff to work to a 1.30pm daily deadline , which could sometimes be stretched to 2pm so that the presses could roll anytime between 4 and 4.30pm . |