Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher swiftly arranged for a six foot wall to be built along his boundary , and angrily muttered that it was going to have to be the Scottish islands . |
| 2 | It was only licensed for a hundred people . |
| 3 | Although the syntactic filter could no doubt be improved , it probably could not compensate for a 20,000 word lexicon and/or poorer acoustic-phonetic discrimination . |
| 4 | And it was not rebuilt for a hundred years . |
| 5 | So I really , my , my , my advice is not to aim for a hundred percent efficiency but always to programme five percent optimistically . |
| 6 | If the issue today in some people 's eyes is the need for this community in Greater York to be one hundred percent self sufficient then perhaps we really ought to go pack up and er go home , er because there 's no way that er a settlement that one could envisage in Greater York or perhaps anywhere else can be a hundred percent self sufficiency , self sufficient , you 're not going to get a shopping mall , you 'd be unlikely to get a a major touring theatre , so you can not aim for a hundred percent self sufficiency , you aim for what is appropriate for the size of the community and particularly its relationship to existing settlements er in the general area . |
| 7 | The authors present Lucy as an example of punctuation : rapidly becoming human and bipedal from the ape ancestor , then not changing for a million years . |
| 8 | This new town , a product of modern civilization , had grown up near the ancient Egdon Woods , where the paths over the hills had not changed for a thousand years . |
| 9 | It is unlikely that the ( insignificantly ) lower incidence of hypoglycaemia with human insulin in our study was due to loss of awareness and therefore reduced detection of hypoglycaemia because the incidence of severe and biochemical hypoglycaemic episodes did not differ for the two insulin species on routine monitoring . |
| 10 | Last night , a police spokesman said : ‘ We are still looking for the two boys , aged about 10-14 years … |
| 11 | After an exhausting schedule of two days of pool matches — the most tortuous ‘ trial by fire ’ ever devised for a sevens tournament — Namibia had established themselves as firm favourites to claim top spot among the four qualifying berths up for grabs in Catania for Murrayfield , 1993 . |
| 12 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
| 13 | A letter of intent also calls for the two firms to cross-license and resell each other 's products . |
| 14 | The investigator 's overall assessments were also compared for the two treatments after adjusting for sex , initial disease severity , hospital centre , and treatment option at day 14 . |
| 15 | He was now acting for the two men accused of bombing the Pan Am jumbo jet in 1988 with the loss of 270 lives . |
| 16 | We 're having a whole day next term to sort out testing for the eleven year olds . |
| 17 | Expeditions typically last for a three months . |
| 18 | Not simply on Tring Reservoirs or the home counties gravel pits do men now sit for a ten pounder anymore . |
| 19 | They do n't come for the fifty P's now do they ? |
| 20 | However , while searching the many rooms for signs of the species Homo Sapiens , Daisy caught herself on a mystic spinning wheel and fell into a sleep so deep it would surely last for a hundred years ( zzzzzzzz ! — Ed ) . |
| 21 | Using the method recommended by Dunlap , Jones and Bittner ( 1983 ) correlations were calculated for each subject individually across the 24 films used in this study , correlations were then averaged for the 48 subjects using Fisher 's z transformation ( Silver & Dunlap 1987 ) . |
| 22 | Why do n't you have the fi look for the three p first and tick that off and then look for the five p next and tick that off . |
| 23 | So , if you have a head wind component of 30 kts then timing for a 1 minute leg would be increased by 30 seconds . |
| 24 | The remains of the R-1 and R-2 were again rebuilt for the 1935 Bendix , but crashed on take-off killing Cecil Allen . |
| 25 | However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector . |
| 26 | The politburo convened on March 9-10 , and on March 12 all official media organs gave prominent coverage to the resultant communiqué which declared unequivocally that economic reform should be " firmly maintained for a hundred years " . |