Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 2 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 3 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 4 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 5 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 6 | ‘ To sustain healthy profit margins , multinational tobacco companies have turned to the Third World for new customers . |
| 7 | In the Czechoslovakian town of Bratislava , cancers have risen by a third , heart complaints by 40 per cent , infant mortality by two-thirds and miscarriages by half since 1970 , thanks to deadly air pollutants from nearby industries . |
| 8 | SCOTLAND — SCOTLAND have qualified for the last five World Cup finals , but with only one point from two games they already face an uphill struggle to qualify for a sixth time . |
| 9 | Hareven 's view is that economic circumstances have eased in the twentieth century , for most people , so that the alignment of individual time and family time has increasingly become a voluntary matter , whereas the stark economic conditions of the nineteenth century made this an absolute necessity ( Hareven , 1978 ) . |
| 10 | The assisted area map will change not because the Government will change but because circumstances have changed since the last review . |
| 11 | The aggressive patrols directed at the German lines have increased since the 12th June , no doubt to keep them on their toes . |
| 12 | This is not a book about graduate employment , on which a number of important analyses have appeared in the last decade ( Lindley 1981 ; Roizen and Jepson 1985 ; Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ; Brennan and McGeevor 1988 ; Boys and Kirkland 1988 ; Boys et al . |
| 13 | On time deliveries have improved over the last 19 months from 40% to 98% . |
| 14 | The bishops ' pre-occupation , too , was with structured administration , which the registers of their activities begin to record from the thirteenth century . |
| 15 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 16 | The offer of longer-term rewards for continuous employment in Japanese firms is common to large and small firms but as Figure 3.4 indicates the profiles begin to diverge after the fifteenth year . |
| 17 | Several RAF stations have closed in the last couple of weeks including Kemble , Abingdon , and Greenham Common In Berkshire . |
| 18 | Immediately before school entry ( provided at least three years have elapsed from the third and last dose of the primary course ) and between 15–19 years or before leaving school are the times for boosters . |
| 19 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 20 | Given that this competition — which Forest have monopolised in the last four years after playing in three of the last four finals , winning two of them — offered Brian Clough 's only route to Europe next year they appeared unusually indifferent . |
| 21 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 22 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 23 | In replying to the accusations , Mr Toshack pointed out that Bilbao 's attempts to culture a romantic image as the sole defenders of Basque traditions were at odds with £3.75 million invested in signings and more managers in 12 months than Real Sociedad have had in the last eight years . |
| 24 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 25 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Fujitsu Ltd have now completed preparations for their Fujitsu-AMD Semiconductor Ltd joint venture on Flash memories , and groundbreaking for a $700m wafer fabrication facility in Aizu-Wakamatsu , Japan , is set for June with operations set to begin in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 26 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 27 | LIZ McCOLGAN has agreed a £500,000 deal to run in the next three NutraSweet London marathons . |
| 28 | While ‘ The Month of August ’ and a number of other poems which pursue sexual and economic questions do appear in the first volume , Leapor 's most angry works were left out . |
| 29 | My earlier assertion that Hunslet would be leaving at the end of the season , now appears to have been a figment of my imagination , and from what i 've read over the last couple of days Leeds appear to be up ‘ shit creek ’ . |
| 30 | Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension . |