Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 200 others were reported injured among the 327 passengers and 13 crew . |
| 2 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 3 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 4 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 5 | Simultaneously with the preparation of the new housing benefit scheme , the Government began operating a policy of significantly increasing the level of council house rents , and a threefold increase has occurred in the nine years since 1979 ( House of Commons Library Note , 19 July 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Despite all this , a pervasive lack of confidence has settled over the two institutions . |
| 7 | Feedback on how effective you are and how your effectiveness has increased over the two days . |
| 8 | The violence in Blackburn , in which riot police were attacked , has resulted in a million pounds worth of damage . |
| 9 | A lot has happened in the seven months since Ford unveiled its new Escort range — and not much of it in accordance with its £1 billion master plan . |
| 10 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 11 | So what has happened in the three decades that have passed ? |
| 12 | This debate has centred on the two views of bureaucracy found in the writings of Marx himself , one presenting it as an instrument by which the dominant class protects its interests , the other as an instrument of power through which the state is able to rise above and regulate class conflict with a measure of autonomy from the dominant class . |
| 13 | Although the ten per cent holding is less than the original JCI stake , it is a reflection of the close relationship that has continued between the two companies in the intervening years . |
| 14 | My wife has left with the two girls saying ‘ I canny take any more ’ . |
| 15 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 16 | This year Mansell has finally claimed the championship he has chased for a dozen years . |
| 17 | The new exhibition comprises thirty-eight paintings with particular emphasis being placed upon those works which Caulfield has created in the eleven years since his retrospective held at the Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool , and the Tate Gallery , in 1981–82 . |
| 18 | However , the UCTA is so intimately connected with the process of negotiation and drafting in the areas covered by the next four chapters that , as a preliminary to detailed analysis of the precedents , it was felt essential to lay out the principles contained in the UCTA and discuss their application in the light of the case law that has evolved in the 15 years or so since the UCTA came into effect . |
| 19 | That is hardly surprising , as the crime rate has doubled in the 12 years since the Conservative party was elected on a promise of law and order . |
| 20 | of anything he 'd met on the seven seas . |
| 21 | Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her . |
| 22 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 23 | Below them , Dr Ali 's boys were getting started on the ten times table . |
| 24 | Building upon the work of Storey and others , the data set obtained from the two surveys will allow the identification of the contribution made by the financial assistance of each authority to the success and development of the local companies . |
| 25 | The band became known as the Thirty Comrades , their heroic status reflecting the company gathered round the great king Alaungpaya , although they were 68 in number . |
| 26 | Leslie had stated that he actually saw a telegram saying that ‘ all had been caught ’ , but this may have referred to the four spies which had been picked up near Rye in Kent . |
| 27 | The presence of muscle type nAChR or nAChR-like protein in the thymus has been reported previously ( 25–27 ) , however antibodies and probes used in these studies would not have differentiated between the two variants of α . |
| 28 | ‘ If the turf had been hard , ’ he said , ‘ we 'd have won by a hundred yards , ’ and then elaborated about Sir Ivor : |
| 29 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 30 | This looks almost inescapably like a type of variation according to the referential category represented by the noun — i.e. not really a matter of syntactic relation at all — and this impression is strengthened by his further remark , " Having provided for the two extremes of referent-modification and reference-modification , we can now assess the blending that frequently — perhaps more often than not — takes place between the two . " |