Example sentences of "[pron] [num] [noun] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researchers selected 35 people who ate spicy food regularly and gave 19 of them 32 solutions containing different amounts of capsaicin and sugar . |
| 2 | Well , many thanks to my three guests discussing sexual harassment in Oxford . |
| 3 | Thus my twelve eggs have inversive symmetry . |
| 4 | My one consolation came next year ( I had that same teacher again ) , when she asked me what was wrong with my cheek . |
| 5 | Somehow my two feet had different ideas about direction . |
| 6 | My two grandchildren arrive this afternoon with their nanny . |
| 7 | There are three options : A league in which eight teams play each other once or twice depending on whether ‘ home and away ’ is selection ; a cup which is an eight-team knockout ; and a season which gives both league and cup competitions . |
| 8 | In a major study of sexual offences conducted by the Cambridge Institute of Criminology between 1950 and 1954 in which 3000 cases involving sexual offences were investigated , it was found that the proportion of offenders recorded by the police as having committed carnal knowledge of girls aged 13 to 16 who were not brought before the courts was much higher ( 46 per cent. ) than for men charged with other heterosexual offences ( 12 per cent . ) . |
| 9 | Its own scheme was implemented three and a half years ago , and now 85 per cent of its 250,000 borrowers pay this way . |
| 10 | India bowled out England for 229 to clinch their 3-0 series whitewash 45 minutes after lunch . |
| 11 | Its 31 members included four Communists . |
| 12 | Its 600 prisoners cultivated enough food to supply all the region 's prisons . |
| 13 | AFAILURE of the signalling system — which occurred when a signal box wire that should have been removed was not , thus preventing the signal from turning to red — caused the Clapham rail disaster in which 35 people died last December 12 , according to the report of the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hidden , QC . |
| 14 | Their 1836 catalogue listed 67 species and varieties of oak , 29 of birch , 91 of crataegus , 180 of willow , and 1,549 roses . |
| 15 | It has been interviewing its distributors and sampling its 3,000 resellers to access geographical coverage and shortcomings . |
| 16 | By 1929 , the National WEA reported that ten of its sixteen Districts had lower branch membership totals than in 1924 , averaging 59% of all enrolled students , which represented a decline of at least 20% on the 1924 figure . |
| 17 | It also shows that 10,200 firms are now registered with the three bodies , of which 160 firms audit listed companies ; however , only 20 audit more than five listed companies . |
| 18 | Most of its 1,033 members have little sympathy for the democratic , capitalist Russia that Boris Yeltsin is trying to create . |
| 19 | THERE is a new surge in demand in the States for Porsche cars after a Carolina woman revealed how the body of her '91 Carrera survived three shots from a. 44 Magnum fired by her ex-husband . |
| 20 | Primary nursing , which is becoming more widely used , is a method of delivering care in which one nurse takes nursing responsibility for a small group of people throughout their period of care . |
| 21 | Long and Porter ( 1985 ) suggest an important division of such activities into ‘ one-way ’ communication tasks in which one student has exclusive knowledge of the information , and ‘ two-way ’ activities in which there is an exchange . |
| 22 | They returned six years later and purchased a corrugated zinc dwelling , and with their two sons became part-time islanders . |
| 23 | They returned six years later and purchased a corrugated zinc dwelling , and with their two sons became part-time islanders . |
| 24 | It was fastened with nails at its four corners to keep all daylight from the room . |
| 25 | Her two Newmarket wins last autumn promised plenty to come and she is certain to be suited by middle distances . |
| 26 | The commonest of these is the one in which two males share one female . |
| 27 | In late May the FBI admitted that it had questioned thirty-one year old Brian M. McDevitt in connection with the theft , in which two robbers cut such masterpieces as Vermeer 's ‘ The concert ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ The storm on the Sea of Galilee ’ from their frames . |
| 28 | Since August 1992 the programme at Buchholz + Buchholz has included photographs by Nineties nightlife photographer Wolfgang Tillmanns and ‘ Proiezioni ’ , in which thirty-three artists showed five slides apiece . |
| 29 | Given the welter of competing ideas on the subject ( the European Community has recently adopted a slightly weaker measure , while securities firms outside the EC often operate under different rules than those governing banks ) , its 1993 proposals are less likely than its 1988 rules to find ready acceptance . |
| 30 | Its 20 staff support two distributors and 11 resellers across Ireland and in the six counties north of the border which make up Northern Ireland . |