Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [conj] [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoenix gossip reckons that another five politicians may soon be charged . |
| 2 | Adam had only heard one other make these sounds and when he first heard Anne make them his memory escape failed and those two nights were startlingly evoked , so disturbingly in fact that he had the terrible delusion that Anne was doing it to mock him . |
| 3 | It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army . |
| 4 | A count at one meeting revealed that all twenty-seven people present were Guardian readers , and it was obvious that many of them knew little about popular papers . |
| 5 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
| 6 | Hib-E scholars have apparently always been quite happy to accept that the meat/mate merger is a true merger ( see citations in J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 : 200 ) , and Bliss ( 1979 : 208–10 ) cites evidence to show that these two classes had merged in Hib-E by around 1700 . |
| 7 | King argues that these two elements have combined in an attack upon the citizenship rights enshrined in the welfare state . |
| 8 | The tribunal ruled that all three women were entitled to redundancy pay . |
| 9 | The problem is that calculations of processes in the Sun 's interior suggest that some three times as many neutrinos should reach Earth from the Sun as are in fact detected . |
| 10 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |
| 11 | The Kuwaiti government said that some 80,000 Palestinians were still resident in Kuwait , out of a population of about 350,000 before the Iraqi invasion . |
| 12 | If life expectancy improves when all four indicators are held constant or also improve then clearly an unambiguous benefit to health has taken place . |
| 13 | However later tests ( Harrington and Johnstone 1987 ) found that it was not necessarily the case that longer input utterances ( where length is defined as number of phonemes or number of words intended by the speaker ) necessarily gave the greatest number of parsings into word strings : there was no correlation between number of phonemes in the utterance and number of parses into words ( r = -0.07 , not significant ) ; neither was there a significant correlation between number of words produced by the speaker and number of possible parses of its phonemic representation into words strings ( r = 0.11 ) , although there is a trend to show that these two variables are positively correlated . |
| 14 | I think our concern is that the vacancy rate erm in the census indicates that some seven point one percent of the the properties in the county are vacant at er at that time . |
| 15 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 16 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 17 | In 1987 , a consultant 's report estimated that some 250 jobs ( including road haulage , etc. ) were generated by Scandinavian trade . |
| 18 | The report stated that some 703,000 people relied on food aid , a much higher figure than the 429,000 cited by the government at a donor conference in New York in April . |
| 19 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 20 | But there is no a priori reason to expect that any one paradigm is perfect or even the best available . |
| 21 | Again , disaster struck because all ten puppies died . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State 's last uprating statement means that another 400,000 pensioners are now eligible for income support . |
| 23 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 24 | UNICEF 's 1990 The State of the World 's Children report said that some 40,000 children died every day from malnutrition and preventable illnesses ( principally immunizable diseases , dehydration due to diarrhoea , and pneumonia ) . |
| 25 | Oakeshott argues that these two sorts of knowledge , distinguishable but inseparable , are the twin components of knowledge involved in every concrete human activity . |
| 26 | Analysis suggests that all five Tribune women will make the slate . |
| 27 | Nisbet maintains that these five strategies represent the range of possibilities and that they can each be located on a spectrum , the poles of which can be described as ‘ hard ’ and ‘ soft ’ . |
| 28 | Later the bomb disposal squad found that all three bombs were duds ! ’ |
| 29 | In order to ensure that all 27 countries will sign the treaty , however , the negotiators have deleted all references to coastal waters from the original draft . |
| 30 | Belgium announced a freeze on loans to Zaïre on May 25 , 1990 , following Belgian press reports that some 50 students died on May 11 when a unit of the presidential guard suppressed anti-government demonstrations at Lubumbashi University in the south of the country . |