Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [num] [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In advance of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) , the Icelandic government has announced that it is leaving the organization , having given the requisite six months notice . |
| 2 | Rodber was taken off with spinal concussion midway through the second half , and within minutes Richards was shepherding a maul forty metres downfield . |
| 3 | The buying came prior to the group announcing a £347 million rights issue and took Asda ahead of BT which was last month 's favourite . |
| 4 | By section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986 , anyone organising a march must give the police six days notice otherwise he may commit an offence . |
| 5 | At that time there was speculation that the UK group might have to pay as much as £1.5 billion and launch a £900 million rights issue to pay for Darty . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of guys go thinking they 're going to buy sensitivity , ’ says Richard Bradley , who produced a BBC Forty Minutes documentary about a Wildman weekend shown earlier this year . |
| 7 | About ten minutes after take off Deacon had reached a position eight miles East of Filfla and a height of 10,000 feet . |
| 8 | You may have driven the ball 50 yards downfield , you may have won six rucks in succession , but , on the seventh attempt , if you could not get the ball away , you lose it . |
| 9 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has reached agreement to adopt the Maestro II applications development environment for use with systems running under its Sinix implementation of Unix , Reuter reports from Munich : it signed with the Softlab GmbH fur Systementwicklung und EDV-Anwendungen subsidiary of Bayerische Motoren Werke AG for a development and marketing agreement on its Maestro product , and also agreed the establishment of a joint centre for international marketing of Maestro II and of Siemens ' Grapes graphics technology . |
| 10 | He immediately booked a flight to Toulouse , saw a house 35 miles north-west of Toulouse in a small hamlet and realised it was ideal as a home as well as an auberge . |
| 11 | The extensively documented systems are updated by David Congleton , who recently attended a BS 5750 Auditors Course with Archie Hoey . |
| 12 | Coltart and Everett have been learning the hard way that it hardly matters if you can sometimes drive the ball 50 yards father than anyone else if the statistics show that some of your opponents single-putt an average of 24 greens per tournament . |
| 13 | I hope so — the thought of the scum winning the league two years running makes my blood curdle . |
| 14 | Edwards won the NorthEast 100 metres title in 1990 and is likely to start as favourite after spending two months training in Fountain Valley , California , with John Regis , Roger Black , Kriss Akabussi and Marcus Adam . |
| 15 | In under 2½ years , contractor Balfour Beatty Construction ( Scotland ) Limited who were awarded the £12.6 million roadworks contract have excavated approximately 40,000 cu m of rock and 500,000 cu m of coil , and have compacted 450,000 cu m of fill of which about 200,000 cu m was imported . |
| 16 | The main local interest looks like being New Marske-based Tom Farrell 's open racer In The Secret , which clocked a useful 36.98 secs winning a three-dog 580 metres trial by 6 7 lengths at Sunderland , finishing very strongly . |
| 17 | LAIRD Group , is making a £41.4m one-for-five rights issue at 220p to invest in acquisitions and the expansion of its motor components businesses . |