Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] it [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Another couple tried it on one of my trains a month or so ago . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Instead , it put the spacecraft into an elongated orbit carrying it between 21 600 and 34 200 kilometres above the Earth . |
| 10 | His favourite horse was shot and draped over the grave and a dreamer bell was suspended over the chief 's body , to ring in the wind until a white man stole it in 1874 . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that it was a requirement of all leases and tenancy agreements that the term created was of certain duration ; that the lease purportedly created under the memorandum of agreement , being for an uncertain period , was void and the land was held on a yearly tenancy created by virtue of the tenant 's possession and payment of yearly rent , on such terms of the memorandum of agreement as were consistent with a yearly tenancy ; and that , accordingly , since the term preventing the landlord from determining the tenancy until the land was required for road widening purposes was inconsistent with the right of either party under a yearly tenancy to determine it on six months ' notice , the plaintiffs ' tenancy had been lawfully determined ( post , pp. 283B–C , F–G , 284G–H , 285E–F , 286E–F , H — 287B , G–H ) . |
| 12 | Against the implacable opposition of its lord , Aylesbury failed utterly to hold on to the corporate status granted it in 1554 . |
| 13 | Should you find , on receipt of your policy , that it fails to meet your requirements in any way , you have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days without payment . |
| 14 | When Christ , beaten and weak , is made to carry the cross , the long version presents it as one element in a series which together compose a " ruful " |
| 15 | The stables get through tons of yellow pages each month turning it into billions of bits ; surely the ultimate nightmare for anyone called JR Hartley . |
| 16 | Martial law , in force since the Feb. 23 military coup [ see p. 38003-04 ] , was lifted in most areas of the country on May 3 , although the interim government retained it in 21 sensitive border provinces and districts . |
| 17 | The highest summit in the world — accorded the status by British surveyors in the 1850s — Everest has been the crowning target for the world 's mountaineers since the first attempt to climb it in 1921 . |
| 18 | As one child remembered it before 1914 : ‘ Suburbia was a railway state … a state of existence within a few minutes walk of the railway station , a few minutes walk of the shops , a few minutes walk of the fields . ’ |
| 19 | The working of a material can convert kinetic energy into potential energy as an aesthetic process ; just as the energy expended in lifting a one kilogramme weight to a height of one metre invests it with one kgm of potential energy . |
| 20 | ISO will follow an elliptical orbit taking it from 1000 to 39 000 km above the Earth 's surface and will complete one orbit every 12 hours . |
| 21 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 22 | Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe . |