Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will not look at how the decision to make the video is taken or how it fits in with other services the child receives from the SSD , NSPCC , and others . |
| 2 | Ostend Ferries : P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has up to six sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Ostend , crossing time four hours ; a 60-hour return for a 4.5 metre car and two adults costs from £50 to £89 depending on sailing . |
| 3 | Indeed , Bailey holds up for critical scrutiny the idea that schools can prepare young people for a world of rapid technological change by concentrating on the very technology which is subject to change ; rather , he suggests , the best basis for adaptability is a liberal education aimed at generating a wide understanding and the development of reason and autonomy . |
| 4 | Town tunes up for top brass THE sound of music will take over at Rhyl 's seafront New Pavilion Theatre when 36 top brass bands compete in the second annual Rhyl Festival of Brass , on the weekend of June 19–20 . |
| 5 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 6 | As she talks , the computer screen behind her bleeps regularly as pieces of electronic mail arrive ; she gets up to 40 messages a day . |
| 7 | Owned by Ladbrokes , the service charges up to 44 pence a minute . |
| 8 | A child who suffers up to forty fits a day is baffling doctors , who say they do n't know what 's caused the little girl 's brain disorder . |
| 9 | Sunnyvale , California-based MasPar Computer Corp will this week debut its second generation massively parallel system , the MP-2 , claiming it delivers up to five times the performance of its existing MP-1 . |
| 10 | A Formalist/Prague School approach thus necessarily projects back onto earlier literature the aesthetic standards peculiar to the modern age . |
| 11 | Lesley goes out about one night a week and I go out occasionally . |
| 12 | At birth , the heart races along at 140 beats a minute , but by the time we reach adulthood the rate has dropped to 70 beats a minute . |
| 13 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 14 | In The Written Language Bias in Linguistics ( 1982 ) he lays out for fellow linguists the detailed ways in which that bias has , he believes , affected their theory . |
| 15 | Each WRVS delivery round serves up to 40 people a day over a two-hour period around lunch time . |
| 16 | It attracts up to 100,000 visitors a year . |
| 17 | The bouncy castle at Brockworth attracts up to 200 children a day … and there has n't been a single accident . |
| 18 | Glass gives up to 100 concerts a year and is coming to Europe in 1991 to perform the music from Powaqqatsi . |
| 19 | It sets out in some detail the means of complying with each of the eight principles that underpin the Data Protection Act . |
| 20 | The average adult spends up to 300 hours a year in the bathroom , yet surprisingly , it 's often the room that receives the least attention . |
| 21 | I see arts students ' timetables , an English student comes in for two hours a week , and he 's home for the rest of the time . |
| 22 | I have a person who comes in for two hours every morning , but … but she does just the very rough work . |
| 23 | Margaret 's Anita is a trained patisserie chef , who comes in for three days a week to delight people with her delicious home-baked brown bread and scrumptious deserts . |
| 24 | The sample showed milk yields up from 18.6 litres a cow a day in April to 19.5 litres in May , with 75% of the milk coming from forage . |
| 25 | She often works up to 16 hours a day and says that her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor does not intrude on her research . |
| 26 | Extreme 's heart-throb guitarist , at No 29 with Rest in Peace , works up to 20 hours a day in the studio . |
| 27 | This works out at 1,460 rupees a year for a rickshaw worth just 2,000 , so he could have bought ten rickshaws with the money he has given the owner over the last 15 years . |