Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] six [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holtermann 's analysis of data from the 1971 census using six indicators of inadequate housing showed that urban conurbations , particularly Clydeside and London , contained a disproportionate amount of inadequate housing . |
| 2 | The Landsat MSS image shown in Figure 5.3(a) was photographed from a monitor screen in the Remote Sensing Unit at Nottingham University using six data planes per memory bank ( implying 64 levels of colour per memory bank ) . |
| 3 | Esquire asked six writers to describe their worst holiday experience |
| 4 | In Cinnamond v. British Airport Authority ( C.A. , 1980 ) Denning M.R. found that natural justice had no application to a decision to exclude six minicab drivers from Gatwick Airport . |
| 5 | Smoking causes six times as many premature deaths as road accidents , all other accidents , suicides , murder , manslaughter , fires , illicit drug use and AIDS put together . |
| 6 | At present , the field has six production wells and four injectors but will eventually have 18 producers and nine injectors by 1998 . |
| 7 | The Executive case has six expansion slots , but little room for an extra drive . |
| 8 | The spectrum has six bands , stretching from nuclear war at one end , through conventional war , limited war , guerrilla war , and terrorism , across to internal security or police action at the other end . |
| 9 | The French champions became the first club to hit six goals since the semi-final group system was introduced last season . |
| 10 | It was erm sine sine squared six X plus cos three X |
| 11 | Any new ratepayer has six months to appeal from the date he or she became responsible for rates . |
| 12 | The back of each card contains six question numbers . |
| 13 | The study highlights six types of hazard affecting seabird populations : human exploitation , predation , fisheries , pollution , disturbance and habitat change . |
| 14 | Buddy is running from July 27 to August 12 and Citizen has six pairs of tickets for the show . |
| 15 | The Turks are particularly skilled at copying all manner of goods , and the young RAOC Supply Specialist Corporal visited six Bedford suppliers in the local town , and drank at least a gallon of cif , before he was satisfied that he was buying genuine Bedford parts ! |
| 16 | After a broken rudder , an unlucky windshift , a dubious umpires ' penalty and meeting rivals New Zealand and Il Moro di Venezia on the top of their form , the luckless Nippon 's 150lb carbon-fibre boom crumpled six minutes before the start of her second clash with Il Moro . |
| 17 | In a referendum on April 1 , 1990 , in which participation was 40.5 per cent nationally , the electorate rejected six proposals , four designed to halt various road-building projects ( rejected by between 71.5 and 66 per cent ) , one concerning changes in the organization of the judiciary ( rejected by 52.6 per cent ) and one on new wine industry regulations ( rejected by 53.3 per cent ) . |
| 18 | PRINCE Charles spent today meeting security forces in Northern Ireland , his movements kept secret after a week 's violence claimed six people 's lives . |
| 19 | Three years later , Protestant Action fielded six candidates for the Corporation ; two were elected . |
| 20 | The applicant needed six months training in order to learn the skills of the new job and had expressed the desire to resume work after her baby was born since the employer had indicated that the job could become a permanent position . |
| 21 | The programme established six goals : ( i ) adequate pre-schooling ; ( ii ) a high school graduation rate of at least 90 per cent ; ( iii ) student competence in the five core subjects ; ( iv ) world pre-eminence for US students in mathematics and science ; ( v ) 100 per cent adult literacy ( 23,000,000-27,000,000 US adults were currently estimated to be " functionally illiterate " ) ; and ( vi ) absence of drugs and violence from every school . |
| 22 | The Consumer Credit Association expelled six companies for contravening their rules . |
| 23 | In the challengers ' section Japan 's odds of making their finals plunged when her boom snapped six minutes before the start against Il Moro di Venezia . |
| 24 | In the West Midlands , Labour gained six seats on a swing of 3.1 per cent but needed three more for victory . |
| 25 | It was generally supposed that in the days of wheel spinning six spinners were needed to keep a weaver at work , and the area around the centres of cloth manufacture within which spinning was put out was so much more extensive than that in which the weaving was undertaken that spinning was done " almost everywhere " . |
| 26 | Let's say your wa your water is metered and erm you 've got a , a washing machine using six gallons per minute . |
| 27 | Suppose for the same data the x-variable was a measure of reading ability in fifty 7-year old children , the y-variable a test of spelling ability and the z-variable the response to the same type of test given six months later . |
| 28 | The Queen Anne mansion with a Norman core has six reception rooms , seven bedrooms , walled gardens , a listed Elizabethan arch and jail with guard room above . |
| 29 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 30 | A GUNMAN slaughtered six people in cold blood because he had been evicted . |