Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any attempt to define ‘ suffering ’ , for example , is bound to fall between the two stools of being unhelpfully imprecise ( such as ‘ a diminution in wellbeing ’ ) or too precisely exclusive ( ‘ an unpleasant emotional response ’ ) . |
| 2 | It entails a testing session to find the end point ( the first dilution of the extract that does not cause the wheal to increase in the 10 minutes after intradermal injection ) followed by prophylactic use of that dilution . |
| 3 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 4 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 5 | We asked you to choose between the two Royals in a fun phone-in . |
| 6 | Whether from shame or fear of the all-pervasive Mukhabarat security police , people are reluctant to talk of the four civilians in Maan who were killed - they do not use the word ‘ martyred ’ as would Palestinians on the West Bank of the river — during the ‘ sorrowful events ’ as they are known in official parlance . |
| 7 | The world seemed to shiver into a million splinters of prismatic colour , silent and fiery , so that they themselves seemed to become beings other than themselves , inhabitants of another planet , out of time . |
| 8 | South Korea made an eleventh hour concession on Aug. 12 by suggesting that the North might be permitted to select only those whom it wished to receive from the 61,000 names on the list . |
| 9 | Kwik Save is to open on the two Sundays before Christmas . |
| 10 | For comparison purposes it is interesting to note that searching a sequential ASCII file using a standard Unix command ( grep ) takes approximately two minutes to look for the 22 words of the test sentence , not including all the alternative candidate strings for each of these word positions . |
| 11 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 12 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 13 | A decision on the bill 's constitutionality had still to be made ; in the meantime different legislation would continue to apply in the two parts of Germany . |
| 14 | But she shut up and lay back forcing her eyes to focus on the two groups of men in their different coloured shirts battling for the ball . |
| 15 | By the time you 've mastered gybing , you can sail in almost any direction and so it 's now time to look at the five essentials for sailing well . |
| 16 | Three types of projection then , he wrote , to go with the three rollers on the grinder , the three draft pistons , the three times three malic moulds , the three times three shots . |
| 17 | Biomass will combine a range of recycling techniques to deal with the 40,000 tons of domestic waste generated by the 125,000 residents of Halton every year . |
| 18 | This leaves the Commission wondering what to do with a million tonnes of prime beef — and it is prime beef , because intervention accepts only the very best steer beef . |
| 19 | This principle in Hinduism is called ‘ Pancha Bhootas ’ and has to do with the five states of creative substances and their relationship to the five sensory faculties . |
| 20 | The most conspicuous group to emerge from the 947 names on the Prime Minister 's list — about 30 more than usual — are key figures in the traumatic aftermath to the terrorist bombing of Pan-Am 's Flight 103 over Lockerbie last December . |
| 21 | He was subsequently ordered by a court not to go within a hundred yards of her . |
| 22 | PAY increases continued to fall in the three months to the end of February , figures out today show . |
| 23 | Some of the larger issuers have simultaneous ECP and SCP programmes , being easily able to switch between the two markets in order to take advantage of perceived arbitrage opportunities and with the ECP programme providing a " benchmark " interest rate for the SCP programme . |
| 24 | Indeed , the differences in ideology between the USA and the USSR are often said to result in the two sets of decision-makers seeing different worlds . |
| 25 | He was selected to run in the 100 and 200 metres in the 1924 Olympics in Paris , but declined to run in the 100 metres on religious grounds , because the heats were to be run on a Sunday . |
| 26 | The World Cup triple jump bronze medallist has decided to run in the 100 metres at the Cleveland County Stadium on Saturday instead of going through the motions in what would have been a practice trial in his specialist event . |
| 27 | Liz McColgan was allowed to run in the 3,000 metres in the UK Championships the previous weekend even though she was not entered . |
| 28 | However , compared with patients aged 18–44 years , patients aged 45–64 ( RR=0.84 ) , 65–74 ( RR=1.28 ) , and 75–92 ( RR=1.99 ) were not significantly more likely to die during the 24 months after discharge ( all p0.2 ) . |
| 29 | The first thing they 'd do if they captured one would be to hack off the two forefingers of each hand , the very ones our archers used to pull a long bow . |
| 30 | PAY increases continued to slow in the three months to January but still kept ahead of inflation , a report shows today . |