Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [num] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Similarly , when I joined AIB in 1955 I had already flown automatic coupled approaches for some months on scheduled passenger services in the Convair 340 with the auto-pilot coupled to the instrument landing system .
2 If mixtures of certain types of rocks including carbonates are held in a sealed evacuated chamber at a temperature equal to the surface temperature of Venus then CO 2 is given off and the pressure builds up until an equilibrium is reached in which the pressure of the CO 2 in the chamber equals the pressure of CO 2 at the surface of Venus .
3 This is defined as the negative logarithm to the base 10 of the H + ; concentration in grams per litre .
4 The former measurement is in terms of a value equal to twenty times the logarithm to the base ten of the ratio of the root-means square pressure of a sound to the reference pressure , which is normally taken to be two times ten to the minus five newtons per square metre , and the unit of measurement is on a uniform scale based upon ten times the logarithm to the base ten
5 During the trial one of the defendants claimed to have acted as an agent for the Secret Intelligence Service MI6 , and allegations were made that officials had encouraged dissimulation in order to maintain intelligence contacts and also to promote British exports .
6 I repeat that if one adds to that the £40 million from the foundation , the £20 million a year for football and the £1 million that I found for the champion coaching scheme , it is clear that our commitment to sport is greater than anyone 's .
7 So try the Viognier '91 from the Ardeche , at £4.49 a bottle .
8 Can you climb two or three flights of stairs , reasonably fast and taking the steps two at a time , and not end up breathless ?
9 ‘ Come on ! ’ he cried , pushed past Fand and leapt up the steps two at a time .
10 He grinned , then spurred himself on , mounting the steps two at a time .
11 Details of the proposals remain secret , but Mr Taylor and the PFA were probably promised a larger minimum guarantee than the £1 million on the table last week .
12 Otherwise if , say , £1 million was deposited in a building society and the building society then deposited the £1 million in a bank , it would count as £2 million — a clear case of double counting .
13 And to ensure you get there in style we 'll lend you the Volvo 460 for the weekend !
14 Under the archway one of a pair of glass doors led to a room , estimated ( wrongly ? ) by MRCVS as being about 10 feet long and six feet wide ; this was the combined consulting room for the Professor and the College library .
15 They chose Milan as the venue because of the presence of two schools which for the previous ten years had pursued the Pure Oral System , or the German System as it was more commonly known , and to help to give the Congress credibility , they chose as the President one of the schools ' headmasters , while the other school 's headmaster was Secretary .
16 Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on .
17 Imagine a straight line halfway between the hour hand and the figure 12 on the watch .
18 Instead it would be an expression of preferences , indicated by putting the figure 1 opposite the name of the first-preferred candidate , the figure 2 opposite the name of the second-preferred and so on .
19 For the final ballot each voter must indicate two preferences amongst the three candidates by placing the figure I opposite the name of his preferred candidate and the figure 2 opposite the name of his second choice .
20 POLICEMAN Brian Yinger has been suspended and ordered to take psychiatric tests because he writes the figure seven with a line through the downstroke .
21 For the final ballot each voter must indicate two preferences amongst the three candidates by placing the figure I opposite the name of his preferred candidate and the figure 2 opposite the name of his second choice .
22 The class is then excused and the entries return to the ring one at a time in numerical order to be judged individually .
23 I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died .
24 He scooped up a stone and leaping the steps to the terrace three at a time , he hurled it through the door and dived after it , hitting the living-room floor flat and rolling twice .
25 The motorist had been travelling Northbound on the M Six near the Walsall and Wolverhampton turnoff .
26 Last nights theft took place when an antiques dealer stopped to change a wheel on his car on the hard shoulder of the M Six near the Keele service station in Staffordshire and was attacked by three men who escaped in a white van .
27 Kent police say at least ten people have been killed and a further two are believed to have died in a coach crash on the M two near the Faversham turn-off .
28 Nineteen people have been injured , five of them seriously after a coach crashed down an embankment , bankment on the M fifty on the Gloucestershire-Worcestershire border ; the coach was carrying elderly passengers on an outing .
29 By Spring of this year our beloved M twenty five will already have been widened to four lanes from the M three to the M forty and in November the Department of Transport 's plans for the three lane link roads between the section between the M four and M forty were displayed locally in Uxbridge and places like that .
30 On one winter 's night , a local book-maker had a £5 bet with a colleague that the Bletchley train would beat the Newport one to the canal bridge .
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