Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The museum contains European paintings of the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries , sculpture and decorative arts from the collection of the Herzog Anton Ulrich , and drawings and prints from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries , The print room and library will stay open to the public . |
| 2 | The largest of them , Hydra , covers 1303 square degrees of the sky , the Southern Cross only 68 square degrees ; Centaurus has 49 stars above the fifth magnitude , Mensa none at all . |
| 3 | The force wants 800 officers of the next four years ; they 've only been given 44 this year . |
| 4 | Our automatic knitting machine , for example , has full orders for the next five years . |
| 5 | We plough through the inches thick green gunge that covers several miles of the first stretch , jokes about lawnmowers and gardening over Easter . |
| 6 | The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees . |
| 7 | Another winner of its three heats , Watabid ( 10 metres ) also faces a stiff challenge against one of the remaining back markers , Ah Jaycee , which wears the stripes and receives three metres in the first semi-final tonight . |
| 8 | The first display runs until 18 April at the sixteenth-century Oratorio di San Rocco and includes medieval ceramics from the thirteenth century to the middle of the fifteenth . |
| 9 | The company sees campus-wide backbones as the first wide-scale implementation of the technology , followed by Asynchronous Transfer Mode to the desktop . |
| 10 | The remaining collection includes unique volumes of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries from the libraries of the Prussian kings , and from the Reichskanzlei . |
| 11 | Does he realise that it shows huge decreases for the next five years , especially in London , with up to 95 per cent . |
| 12 | Bonington also takes repeated swipes at the 19th century climbing establishment as represented by the Alpine Club , glossing over in the process the AC 's extraordinary and valuable role in the exploration not only of the Alps but the greater ranges . |
| 13 | The Box Office opens 15 minutes before the first performance each day and closes 15 minutes after the start of the last performance . |
| 14 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 15 | Everyone expects better results in the next quarter . |
| 16 | Indeed , the move seems generally acceptable for them , subject only to the natural constraint that it will be proscribed in certain cases where the adjective would consequently look as if it were attributive , with the result that an incorrect meaning would apparently be expressed ; for example : ( 19 ) this potion makes dogs bald ( 20 ) this potion makes bald dogs For the second reason , we turn to some additional aspects of questions . |
| 17 | For an interesting discussion of translation problems which makes frequent references to the second type of classification , see Hatim and Mason ( 1990 ) . |
| 18 | Phase III occupies 96 weeks in the fourth and fifth years , commencing in July . |