Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adv] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piers asked when the two figures had melted away into the crowds . |
| 2 | When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was . |
| 3 | The means given beside each item are taken from Reason , Manstead , Stradling , Baxter & Campbell ( 1988 ) who had 520 drivers fill in the 50 item questionnaire . |
| 4 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 5 | Hill sums up the 1992 housing market in one word — ‘ weird ’ . |
| 6 | The Robinson twins of Coleraine battled out the 200 metre breast stroke for 14–15 years , and it was Louise who this time eclipsed Emma by five seconds . |
| 7 | He let his mind wander down the twenty yards of landing and the three stairs to the back bedroom where his sixteen-year-old daughter lay . |
| 8 | In the early part of September there were still hopes for a UN-sponsored peace conference as Oscar Camilion , UN special representative for Cyprus , visited Ankara , Athens and Nicosia in an attempt to bring together the four parties to the dispute : the Greek and Turkish governments and the Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot communities [ see also pp. 38402-03 ] . |
| 9 | Once again Skaller picked up the two pictures , but only the features of the other boy still held his glance . |
| 10 | The 1777 militia returns show how the two towns dominated the trade , for Northampton had 142 recorded shoemakers and Wellingborough 113 , but Irthlingborough had only 17 , Raunds 16 , Earls Barton 11 and Hardingstone 7 . |
| 11 | Again , there were no differences in trials using either the 21 item scale ( mean difference 0.147 ; -0.597 to 0.891 ) or the 17 item scale ( 0.727 , 0.083 to 1.370 ) . |
| 12 | Far more controversial is the CHA proposal to open up the 1984 Canada Health Act . |
| 13 | The elderly constable shooed away the two security guards , and locked the door . |
| 14 | God 's providential intentions were realized by Constantine : Augustus had united the world under Roman rule , Christ under God 's , and Constantine welded together the two unities in a Christian society which was , in principle , universal . |
| 15 | Intercommodity spreads can be subdivided into : intermarket spreads where the two futures in the spread are traded on different exchanges , for instance LIFFE and the CME ; and spreads consisting of different futures traded on the same exchange , such as the FT-SE 100 index future and the long gilt future , both traded on LIFFE . |
| 16 | Former county champion Lindsay Taylor is fifth while Steven Souter , Jevon Chan and Steven Cooper make up the eight seeds . |
| 17 | J Wood in the Custom House and Silvertown Ward expressed the need to administer effectively the 1918 Education Act , 1918 Maternity Act , and the 1919 Housing and Town Planning Act : ‘ In a period of reconstruction only a majority of conscious Socialist and labour men and women on the council will have the determination to make West Ham a healthier , cleaner , more sanitary town to live in ’ . |
| 18 | Setting up the tool requires only the two spanners provided as standard accessories . |
| 19 | Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms . |
| 20 | But Morocco 's opposition parties want King Hassan to bring home the 1,500 troops he sent to join the multinational force . |
| 21 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 22 | As he knows the talks process brings together the two governments and the main constitutional parties in working together to find an accommodation , and I think that is right . |
| 23 | The vicar takes out the four balls and the waxman , Mr Tommy Temple , who has had the job since 1940 , carefully cuts away the wax and the names are read out . |
| 24 | Richter asked when the two men reached the police car . |
| 25 | Most studies used either the 17 question or the 21 question instrument , although other versions were occasionally used . |
| 26 | You could go with the travel club , I suppose , but then you do n't get the chance to come down the Three Goats Heads pub in the city centre before and after the match and meet everyone else from the list — hopefully . |
| 27 | Martha took out the two tiles and laid them in front of him . |
| 28 | Following this brief , Whitaker had gone ahead commissioning a crop of four part stories to make up the twelve shows needed to keep Doctor Who on air for forty-eight weeks — one year in BBC terms , allowing for Christmas , sports events and other potential breaks . |
| 29 | The theoretical framework which underwrites the planning , attempts to keep together the four modes of language and their relation to learning and teaching in schools . |
| 30 | The diagrams show how the three filter systems function . |