Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) A requirement under this section to provide a specimen of blood or urine can only be made at a police station or at a hospital ; and it can not be made at a police station unless — ( a ) the constable making the requirement has reasonable cause to believe that for medical reasons a specimen of breath can not be provided or should not be required , or ( b ) at the time the requirement is made a device or a reliable device of the type mentioned in subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) above is not available at the police station or it is then for any other reason not practicable to use such a device there , or ( c ) the suspected offence is one under section 4 of this Act and the constable making the requirement has been advised by a medical practitioner that the condition of the person required to provide the specimen might be due to some drug ; but may then be made notwithstanding that the person required to provide the specimen has already provided or been required to provide two specimens of breath . |
| 2 | Drivers whose vehicles give off more poisonous chemicals than are allowed have ten days to clean up their act . |
| 3 | Dell Computer Corp launched a colour notebook computer at $2,000 : the Dimension NL25C has a 25MHz 80386 microprocessor , 9″ screen , weighs 6.6 lbs and has a rechargeable NiCad battery that is claimed to run five hours between charges . |
| 4 | Of course , as a scientist who 's planning an expedition that 's going to take 200 years to get underway , Charles has his critics within the Oxford establishment . |
| 5 | The sergeant has denied assault , in a trial that 's expected to last five days . |
| 6 | It was not uncommon for someone to take a wrong turning and be found wandering three weeks later , cold and hungry . |
| 7 | But the Government had already done a deal giving the Welsh nationalists , Plaid Cymru , a guaranteed place and were determined to keep two others reserved for the main parties , Labour and the Tories . |
| 8 | Political negotiations were scheduled for Aug. 10 and were expected to last two months . |
| 9 | The NRA is pumping groundwater into the River Itchen in Hampshire to keep up its flow and is trying to save three streams , the Tong , the Little Stour and the Dour from going dry this summer . |
| 10 | The CNX 600 is based on a second-generation RISC-based multiprocessor architecture , and is claimed to offer 100,000 packets per second performance . |
| 11 | The European Remote Sensing Satellite , ERS-1 , cost £500 million and is expected to spend three years observing the Earth from space . |
| 12 | The Argus will leave with the helicopters on board next week and is expected to take seven days to reach the Croatian port of Split . |
| 13 | Well 204/20–1 was spudded by the drilling rig Ocean Valiant on September 14 and is expected to take 35 days . |
| 14 | The first European Design Automation Conference is scheduled for 7–10 Spetember at Hamburg 's Congress Center and is expected to attract 5,000 visitors : among those exhibiting are DEC , Harris , Sun , Cadence , Fujitsu and i-Logix . |
| 15 | MIDDLESBROUGH 'S annual ten kilometre road race will almost certainly be an event on its own this year and is expected to attract 700 runners . |
| 16 | Within months , however , he was taken seriously ill and was compelled to retire two years later . |
| 17 | Turkes ' group had emerged among Grand National Assembly delegates returned in the October general election , and was reported to comprise 19 delegates . |
| 18 | He had a bad attack of bronchitis during February and was forced to spend ten days in hospital . |
| 19 | President René 's SPPF won 58.4 per cent of votes cast and was expected to take 14 seats on the commission to draft a constitution in advance of presidential and legislative elections scheduled to take place in December . |
| 20 | The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough . |
| 21 | Facts : the appellant pleaded guilty before a magistrates ' court in April , 1990 to an offence of receiving and was ordered to perform 180 hours community service . |
| 22 | In October 1990 he pleaded guilty in the Crown Court to handling , and was ordered to perform 90 hours community service . |
| 23 | Antonen , 54 , of Kidlington , Oxon , admitted drink-driving and was ordered to do 180 hours ' community service and banned for three years . |
| 24 | Hodges , 32 , of Oakdale Glen , Harrogate , admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was ordered to complete 200 hours community service and to pay £200 compensation to Miss Campbell . |
| 25 | These patients were dropped from the study but were allowed to re-enter eight weeks later . |
| 26 | The machine costs £170 but is guaranteed to cure 100 problems . |