Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [indef pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now make another table of what you expect from your house , and award points from one to ten in the same way : |
| 2 | ‘ Do my wishes count for nothing in this house ? ’ |
| 3 | It is a privilege enjoyed by everyone in this country but because the library profession has a responsibility for some considerable part of the provision of and access to literature and information , there is a heightened obligation for the library profession in the UK to resist censorship with a much greater collective and individual will than it has tended to show in the past . |
| 4 | Designs ranged from one to six . |
| 5 | Did n't your detective johnnie come across something like that in one of your books ? ’ |
| 6 | In rural areas , the figure drops to one in three . |
| 7 | Hence photographs of herself taken by a lover look like lots of different women . |
| 8 | The pigeon lay soft and warm on my belly , and I stood listening while my metabolism returned to something like normal . |
| 9 | Mobility increased too , as ownership of cars increased from one per ten people in 1960 to one per 3.2 at the end of 1987 , or 0.85 per household . |
| 10 | Scales are not usually given except as scale bars with units varying from one to another but the main chart is approximately 1:239,300 and the Caledonian Canal is in the order of 1:80,000 . |
| 11 | A more healthy statistic is that British companies account for one in three of the firms selling programs for microcomputers in this country . |
| 12 | Only one in seven men did not help their wives at all in the professional/managerial , clerical and skilled classes , although , for the semi-skilled and unskilled , the proportion rose to one in four . |
| 13 | I left Poppy at the home surrounded by lots of new toys . |
| 14 | But Franca believed in none of these things . |
| 15 | If you live a high-risk area , the likelihood increases to one in 13 . |
| 16 | Table 6.4 shows the expected percentage of overflow records when records are randomized to buckets containing from one to 600 records . |
| 17 | The past year has been a rollercoaster one for the royals with a few highs followed by lots of depressing lows . |
| 18 | But to fail at O level might mean that a child ended with nothing at all to show for his time at school . |
| 19 | Did Karen say to somebody on that thing did I hear her say , What are you on ? |
| 20 | Their flock responded with anything from horrified disillusion to vociferous outrage . |
| 21 | The number of vehicles recorded at a junction ranged from none to 105 , mean 10.4 . |
| 22 | The risk of death in a bungee jump in Nigel 's opinion lies between one in one million and one in ten million . |
| 23 | So , for example , in the national survey of retirement conducted in 1977 , between the age groups of 50–9 and 60–73 , the proportion of women in junior and intermediate non-manual socio-economic groups fell from nearly half to nearly one-third , while the proportion in the unskilled group rose from one in ten to nearly one in four ( S. Parker , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ It was always my intention to spend a couple of years looking at everyone with international potential , qualify for Sweden and then settle the squad down for the World Cup . |
| 25 | Throughout the 1960s , politicians kept up a rather futile polemic as to whether the General cared about anything except foreign affairs . |
| 26 | ‘ She is not the sort to lie about something like this and I ca n't think of a reason why she would , ’ said Christopher Grenside , 85 . |
| 27 | In the mainly rural Wessex region , prosecutions increased from one to 28 . |
| 28 | Isobel ran from one to another , touching the gleaming coachwork , the glittering chrome . |
| 29 | What products pass from one to another and why ? |
| 30 | The nature of those sources is part of the explanation : no comic play survives in anything like complete form earlier than the beginning of the Peloponnesian War , and Thucydides for artistic reasons ( like Tacitus delaying the introduction of Sejanus until the opening of the second half of his six ‘ Tiberian ’ books ) , delays the introduction of the arch-demagogue Kleon until Pericles is off the stage for good . |