Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A ROW has broken out between two Darlington General Election candidates over the number of under-fives in nurseries .
2 Exploration in Middle Devonian volcanic and sedimentary rocks north of Wadebridge in north Cornwall has located up to 1 g/t Au associated with quartz-arsenopyrite veins ( MRP 103 ) .
3 Armagh Language Centre , based at the local College of Further Education , has come up with two courses in European Studies and English Language .
4 It has come up with five colour TXT systems each powered by a 40MHz Texas Instruments Inc TMS340 processor .
5 has come up with three sponsors to ‘ underwrite ’ half the costs of the show ( £200,000 ) Silhouette Eyewear , Vistech Redab property developers , and The Times and hope that a box office success will make up the balance .
6 News has come through about one Alan Parker who performs in York next week .
7 The optimum completion time has come down by one minute to 11 minutes and more time is being allowed on the roads and tracks section before the cross country .
8 Nigel , 27 , succeeds Colin Auton who has moved on after seven years at the hotel .
9 Over the years this has averaged out at two gundogs and two rabbiting dogs .
10 A swoop by customs officers has netted up to 15 people so far .
11 ‘ The whole business has dragged on for two weeks already and it looks like going on even longer .
12 On occasions he has walked up to 40 miles in a day .
13 The river has cut down through 6,000 feet of the Colorado Plateau , exposing a quarter of the earth 's geological history .
14 Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said .
15 Rice , a controversial omission from South Africa 's World Cup team , has stepped down after 10 years as Transvaal 's captain to take up a position as a TV commentator during the competition .
16 ‘ Now that has gone up to five hours on her own .
17 ‘ Now that has gone up to five hours on her own .
18 The Essex News to Mrs today if you want to order it , it 's ten copies for pound and Home and County , as you well know , has gone up to ten pounds twenty pence .
19 The Northern League of Signor Umberto Bossi , which wants a separate state for the rich north in a federal Italy , has gone up from two seats to 82 .
20 The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double .
21 Members heard how the number of offences has gone up by seventeen percent in the past year although the actual rate of increase does seem to be slowing up .
22 Figures for 1987 , compared with those for 1984 , show that the total annual output has increased by 18,000 tonnes , while manufacture within specification has gone up by 36,000 tonnes .
23 The paper circulated demonstrates that since eighty-eight nine through to ninety-three four , whereas county council spending as a whole has gone up by thirty-eight percent , spending on the police has gone up by eighty-eight percent , and that 's more than double .
24 The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years .
25 ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’
26 ‘ It has gone on for 15 months and so far most firms have managed to survive , but they ca n't go on like this for ever . ’
27 However , I believe — perhaps the Minister will confirm this — that , in the last year for which we have the figures , the import of such waste has gone down to 44,000 tonnes , although that is still 10 times higher than in 1981-82 .
28 I 'm extremely sad to see that the price for glass has gone down by five pounds a ton which results in the er the income from the recycling of glass being halved .
29 A fairly marked spring passage occurs between March and May , when sea-watching has recorded up to 200 birds in one spring .
30 However , such systems tend to settle down after a time ; as long as the feedback process is not in full swing , we can often assume that the net effect has balanced out in one direction or the other .
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