Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [art] [num] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was more emphatic than the 5-1 win on Thursday because little more than two hours after the start England had already achieved a 4-0 winning lead . |
| 2 | In contrast , we would expect an example like ( 6 ) to produce a relatively high rate of plural continuations , since it is likely that the two meet in order to carry out joint activities . |
| 3 | ARRANGED for £96,000 of union cash to be paid into his pension pot to give him inflation-proofing and a two-thirds pension on his final £55,000 salary . |
| 4 | A 4-1 defeat was marginally better than the 5-1 setback on Tuesday against the side who will be England 's key rivals for a semi-final place in their World Cup group in February . |
| 5 | But at 30 Hick was not given the benefit of the doubt when lbw to a Cairns ball which had no more than a 50–50 chance of hitting the top of the leg stump . |
| 6 | It must be emphasized , however , that whether the criterion be the number of courses or the number of teacher-days devoted to this topic , the development of productive links with parents and the community did not account for more than a one-hundredth part of the Authority 's in-service programme during the evaluation period . |
| 7 | ‘ Up ’ ( and I think we 're talking more than the one level of ambiguity in that solitary two-letter word ) is a record that actually makes you feel happy , in that all of it is uplifting ( oi ! spiritually , not trouserly ) , you can dance to some of it and sing along to the rest , the words are rude and witty and always smart , and Richard Fairbrass is a fantastic pop singer , all post-Bowie and Ferry and languid , a sort of brightly-coloured Neil Tennant . |
| 8 | The Supreme Constitutional Court judged on May 19 that the People 's Assembly had been unconstitutionally elected in 1987 because a 1986 amendment to the 1972 electoral law had unfairly discriminated against independent candidates . |
| 9 | Some Western Marxists left the Communist fold over the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956 and the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia , swelling the Trotskyist splinter groups who defended an alternative interpretation of revolutionary Marxism through the Stalinist period . |
| 10 | Tiny varying voltages were applied to the plates and the platypus 's reactions showed that it could detect field strengths as low as a 500 millionth of a volt ( 0.05 microvolts ) per centimetre . |
| 11 | The Mexican party has also become increasingly independent of Moscow , condemning the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and the 1979 intervention in Afghanistan . |