Example sentences of "[noun] [det] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Actually , I believe that the marriage rule applies only to women , which says something for what marriage is supposed to do for them , but on that sunny Tuesday afternoon neither of the disqualifying conditions applied to me .
2 Four patients had gastric cancer and there was one case each of a solitary liver metastasis from thyroid cancer and a simple liver cyst .
3 If after 10 games the score is 5–5 there will be two quick play games played at a rate of 60 moves in 45 minutes and then 15 minutes each in a sudden death ‘ blitz finish ’ .
4 You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures .
5 Such newspapers were to sell over 3 million copies each during the great press battles of the 1920s and 1930s : sales of such magnitude that they easily dwarfed the circulation of the dailies of the late 19th century .
6 The dispositive contents of the will include : ( i ) pecuniary legacies of £1,000 each to the two executors , and of £2,000 to a Mr. Clarke , the deceased 's stockbroker ; ( ii ) provision for 150B , High Street and its contents to be retained to provide a residence during their respective lifetimes of two ladies , Mrs. Donelly and Mrs. Willett ; ( iii ) a settled legacy of £10,000 to provide for the maintenance of 150B , High Street during the residence there of the two ladies ; ( iv ) a settled legacy of £2,000 for a specified animal charity ; and ( v ) a gift of residue in equal shares to two specified charities .
7 Regroup your substitution items into groups each with the same tone patters , and try each group again in the same frame to see if the items do in fact have the same tone pattern ( see right-hand column ) .
8 There can be no more thorough scrutiny than that of the National Audit Office , save of course that of the Public Accounts Committee , of which my hon. Friend is a distinguished member .
9 An indication of the enthusiasm ‘ WONDERS ’ generates is the fact that more than 1,700 volunteers devoted fifty hours each to the 1991 show .
10 The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate .
11 The filter further added to the exposure time which could be up to 80 times that of a normal plate .
12 It is convenient to think of a valuation ratio of poor to rich , , which reflects their relative marginal social utilities of income whose form comes from equation ( 9–3 ) so that Jenkins ( 1989 ) and the Overseas Development Administration ( 1988 ) provide some convenient calculations for a rich person whose income is four times that of a poor person .
13 The UltraNet RS/6000 Network Processor is claimed to deliver effective application performance in excess of four times that of a standard block multiplexer mainframe channel , and an order of magnitude faster than other RS/6000 network connections such as Ethernet , Token Ring and FDDI — in other words it runs at 1Gbps or over 100Mbytes per second , coming close to matching network bandwidth with computer bandwidth .
14 The tank produces 50 grams of steam per minute — about three times that of a conventional steam iron — and feeds it directly into the iron via a cord in its side .
15 The harbour porpoise , for instance , needs to maintain a rate three times that of an equivalent-sized land mammal to keep itself warm in cold waters .
16 All the new RS/6000s are available in March , along with a new X-terminal , the Xstation 150 — priced at $5,550 — with a claimed performance six times that of the existing model 130 , and the Legato Systems Inc-derived tape back system and software .
17 The risk of hepatitis B infection for healthcare workers is five to 10 times that of the general population .
18 The enormous cost of the war — 10 times that of the First World War — created a large Federal government deficit , but the new-found wealth of the country was sufficient to fund it .
19 In this case , were it visible from the Earth and if Jupiter were near opposition , the angular diameter of the magnetosphere would be nearly 3 times that of the full Moon .
20 We have , we started again , nineteen eighty nine , we decided taking on board some of the Japanese ideas which we felt we could use .
21 Building societies and banks all have their own forms of report , but in case you need to prepare your own form base this on the printed forms of such bodies .
22 The actual burden on most preparers will be rather less than may appear from the disclosure requirements of the FRED , given that it is unusual for a company to have many different kinds of capital instruments in issue and , therefore , in many cases few of the specific disclosures will apply .
23 Racism was not wiped out when Lyon was minister , on the contrary some of the worst cases of human suffering at the hands of Immigration Officers occurred in his regime , but he did occasionally act with some humanity .
24 I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel .
25 The method involved forms half of a genetic algorithm .
26 The Department of Health and Social Security are concerned that all elderly people who are in need should receive the appropriate help to which they are entitled , and the visiting officers are always pleased to explain what other benefits a successful claimant may have automatically , but even if a supplementary pension or allowance is not granted , if their income is below a certain level some of the extra benefits such as free dentures , spectacles , hospital fares , and rate rebates ( this last is not usually granted to those on supplementary pensions ) may be available to them .
27 The investor may purchase shares in his chosen company for 200p so that the two states are 400p and 100p each with an equal probability of occurring ( Fig. 7.16 ) .
28 Thus , the nineteenth century historian Bishop Stubbs said that Richard ‘ Was a bad king … his ambition that of a mere warrior .
29 Not in appearance which has changed little , nor in character which remains in essence that of a medieval settlement , but the former strongly individual atmosphere of the place , the aura of bygone days , has been destroyed by the coming of the motor car which increasingly has taken away the privacy of the little town .
30 And Lips that with no gay Vermilion glow ?
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