Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [verb] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AFTER tearing down one wall , the Germans are busy putting up thousands of others . |
| 2 | Both BNP and Liberal Democrat candidates are entitled to have almost 39,000 election leaflets delivered to homes in Darlington free of charge . |
| 3 | Currently such research is obliged to have only one aim — unhooking existing addicts . |
| 4 | Noakes was busy hosing down one of the dozen or so grey slate slabs ranged along each wall . |
| 5 | The President was able to attend only one of these , which was actually better than three other committee members who attended no meetings . |
| 6 | The VEC relented but , with such short notice , the DUC was able to obtain only one speaker , Dr Robert Blackith , a zoologist from Trinity College , Dublin who was at that stage a veteran anti-nuclear speaker and campaigner . |
| 7 | The yield of TIB 1 is three to four times greater than that of the local variety of sweet potato and Giwa is able to market about 60 tons of sweet potatoes per year . |
| 8 | Jane was able to sketch nearly one hundred ships , as well as paying off his mess bill by painting decorative panels in his host ship 's wardroom . |
| 9 | Each mill was likely to require around 4 million bricks , 2 acres of glass and 2,200 tons of iron and steel . |
| 10 | The first guests were due to arrive around eight , which actually meant that they would begin arriving anytime after nine . |
| 11 | As a result of Kaszubian naivety Polish land-dealers and banks were able to buy up 35,000 acres of Kaszubian-owned land in the years 1896–1905 . |
| 12 | You can say that optical fibre is able to carry only one TV channel whereas a coaxial cable can carry up to 30 . |
| 13 | The MGB was first launched exactly 30 years ago . |
| 14 | The so-called Hungry Thirties when social deprivation was rampant produced only three British world champions — exactly the same as the ‘ affluent society ’ decade of 1952-1962 . |
| 15 | The emergency bakeries are able to bake about 1,500 loaves an hour and are about the size of ten army trucks . |
| 16 | Today the share is likely to stand below 20 per cent . |
| 17 | The Cougar mould was last used about 8 years ago and is past its best ; he suggests the Mirage is similar to the Cougar . |
| 18 | The Brut blames the Despensers for this measure , but the king was able to raise almost 7,000 men who served for four weeks at their vills ' expense . |
| 19 | Small , informal groups of people are likely to chatter away nineteen-to-the-dozen . |
| 20 | Gabriel was urgent to know just one thing . |
| 21 | Together , nevertheless , these three men indicate that each district was apt to throw up one great entrepreneur at a time who stood head and shoulders above his contemporaries and competitors . |
| 22 | The problem is further compounded in St Lucia because the amount of land under cultivation is sufficient to support only 40 per cent of the rural population and , since there are few opportunities in urban centres to provide alternative livelihoods , pressures on land will continue to occur . |
| 23 | 1 kg of Gyproc cove adhesive is sufficient to fix about 5 m of 100 mm girth , or 3 m of 127 mm girth cove . |
| 24 | The CBI , whose recent reports on activity have added to the economic optimism , said the jobless total is unlikely to fall below 2.25 million even when the recovery becomes established . |
| 25 | The clean-up operation is likely to take around five weeks . |
| 26 | When planned , the total output of these reactors was supposed to reach nearly 5,000 megawatts ( million watts ) at full capacity , about a fifth of the then total for all UK power stations . |
| 27 | Previously the Government was prepared to pay only 50 per cent in Less Favoured Areas and 40 per cent outwith them . |
| 28 | Last year CAUSE were able to assist nearly 100 families thanks to your generosity . |
| 29 | Prior to Feakle , army battalions were able to spend only five months outside Northern Ireland between tours of duty . |
| 30 | First , the females are extremely fecund , one worm being able to contribute about 700 eggs to each gram of faeces per day , and egg counts of 15,000 epg are not uncommon in pups . |