Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers still dilute a concentrated formulation to apply it in 200 litres or more of water per hectare . |
| 2 | Dehydration , er can produce death within a matter of fe , er a few hours and and an understanding of the mechanism by which this dehydration leads us into one of the most effective forms of heat treatment er , ever produced . |
| 3 | Some authorities subdivide them into three types — the down-awn hairs , the awn hairs and the guard-awn hairs — but these subtle distinctions are of little value . |
| 4 | As for the computer password , on the other hand , this reviewer guessed it in one and had to wait twenty-odd pages for Casaubon to catch up . |
| 5 | Frankly , this proposal reminded me of one of the quotations with which Taylor prefaces his chapter on ‘ Value-added Processes in Information Analysis ’ : |
| 6 | Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty . |
| 7 | Some stories give you in one or two pages exactly enough information about why two people wo n't ever get on , the divisions between them and so on . |
| 8 | A theatrical gentleman approached me after one of the performances , said he was impressed by my singing , and that he could obtain a part for me with the Schikenader Company in Vienna . |
| 9 | Inspired by some of life 's strange and wonderful things , this collection takes us into 1991 with a message ; Be Bold , Be Colourful , but Be Yourself . |
| 10 | So although we know this today , very few people knew it in nineteen thirteen , and er , nobody knew it before the turn of the century . |
| 11 | On his return from Scotland he had asked the French government to provide him with 18,000 men for a fresh attempt and had then visited Spain to seek help from Ferdinand VI , but , like Louis XV , the Spanish king was non-committal . |
| 12 | Acting on a French tip-off , the British police arrested him on 6 June 1931 , along with a young woman , Li Sam , described as his niece but more probably his mistress . |
| 13 | For this ailment call him on 0891 400 650 . |
| 14 | For this ailment call him on 0891 400 650 |
| 15 | Another couple tried it on one of my trains a month or so ago . |
| 16 | How ironic , Antonietta 's mother remarked , that it took a young lady from a foreign country to educate them about one of their own artists ! |
| 17 | He held the office until Safar 924/February 1518 when he was succeeded by two Damascene scholars in turn , who between them held the post until 927/1521 ; then by two Ottomans , in turn , until 930/1524 ; and then again by one of the Damascenes who had earlier held the post , this time holding it from 930/1524 to 936/1530 when he was removed , apparently for misconduct . |
| 18 | The Cup and League Double had eluded the most ambitious clubs ever since Aston Villa became the second club to achieve it in 1897 , in a less competitive era . |
| 19 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 20 | Great Britain , for their part , will be looking to recapture the many admirable qualities which brought them that improbable victory after Steve Hampson 's early dismissal reduced them to 12 men . |
| 21 | Children play mournfully in heap of setter shit above which washing-line used to hang ( until sodden towel bust it at three a.m. , landing in setter ordure as mentioned ) . |
| 22 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 23 | His second success took him to 1,000 points as an All Black , his record including non-Test matches . |
| 24 | Pitt began by converting John Chapman 's reputed Manor House — which he bought when the Court of Chancery ordered the Dampier family to sell it in 1823 — into a hotel , clearing the ground in the direction of Peveril Point . |
| 25 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 26 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 27 | Instead , it put the spacecraft into an elongated orbit carrying it between 21 600 and 34 200 kilometres above the Earth . |
| 28 | It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact ! |
| 29 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 30 | The learning outcomes in these modules have so much in common that it seems inappropriate to have three teachers teaching them in three separate classrooms . |