Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will be able to declare a ballot void if it appears third parties have interfered by voting when not entitled to do so , tampering with ballot papers , interfering with voters or exerting undue influence . |
| 2 | Reputedly in poor condition when it surfaced last year ‘ glossed and cleaned up ’ was one description the painting has been consigned from the Wernher Collection at Luton Hoo , Bedfordshire . |
| 3 | It is certainly not strong enough to extract unconditional aid from the developed nations , habitually suspicious of what happens to their money once it reaches Third World administrations . |
| 4 | So how is it that I , a pensioner earning half that sum , will pay more tax should he win the election than I did last year ? |
| 5 | Because er , to produce more output you have to have a bigger stock , and therefore the price goes up , so you produce more , decreasing not quite so much , and keep a greater percentage than you did last year , so that for cows , as the price goes up you 've got to counteract it again , cows this year , and try to sort of , keep my , get my herd bigger and bigger , and profitable . |
| 6 | Apolitical and never the holder of any union office , Kirkland had 36 years as a Glasgow ambulanceman before he retired last year . |
| 7 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 8 | The VPC may make an announcement on the proposal when it meets next Thursday . |
| 9 | Burns-Anderson , which can boast Sir John Harvey- Jones as its chairman until he retires next June , nudged its profit up from £4.2million to £4.6million in the year to September 30 . |
| 10 | The competition will be judged by Alan Amey , who was an apprentice at the John Makepeace Workshops in 1976 , and then head craftsman until he left last year . |
| 11 | Items can be sent to my home address by the second week in September , this will give me time to price and size them , a major job as I discovered last time and I will send you the figure of money raised by the end of October . |
| 12 | But such organizations generally prefer to keep a low profile as they peddle Third World prostitution — hoping to attract the attention only of potential customers . |
| 13 | On behalf of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council I should like to ask your department to provide a rubbish skip as you did last year . |
| 14 | Practice breathing in this way for twenty minutes each day until it becomes second nature . |
| 15 | McCrea had been told to stay on , pack , tidy up and return the keys to the landlord when he left next morning . |
| 16 | It fell to the diminutive and very tired Mr Havel to declare that a message had gone from the Forum to Presidents George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev , urging them to look closely at 1968 and the invasion when they meet next month . |
| 17 | A Yorkshire pay clerk 's widow was able to play a ‘ big part ’ in her granddaughters ' upbringing because she lived next door across a common yard and could be ‘ always there ’ , in and out of the house . |
| 18 | I think they have more pedigree than the other team in that they were in the first division four years ago , erm so I think we can expect a harder game than we had last time . |
| 19 | Since Food Giants are spreading so fast around the country — they 've opened more than one store a month since they started last year — we 've put their claims to the test . |
| 20 | The Chancellor is gradually receiving a clearer picture of the state of the economy as he prepares next month 's budget . |
| 21 | But they have made startling progress since they started last November . |
| 22 | I encountered the reality of a penitential pilgrimage the moment I woke and levered my stiff limbs off the hard school-room floor where we slept last night , and winced as my blister contacted the floor . |
| 23 | Went to look up her reading , they said had to pay I 've used three times as much gas as I did three times as much gas as I needed last time |
| 24 | It is hoped that Rambert will be one of the first companies to appear at the Festival Theatre when it opens next year , by which time Christopher Bruce will have taken over as artistic director of the company with which he used to be a leading dancer and choreographer . |
| 25 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 26 | Like the one at that farm where we stayed last summer . ’ |
| 27 | And , having been presented with the customary bottle of champagne by the Wincanton executive , Scudamore added that he felt a lot less pressure than he had last season . |
| 28 | SUPERMARKET giant Tesco yesterday claimed that the slump is forcing us to spend £3 a week less on food than we did last year . |
| 29 | The 80860 also formed the basis of Oki Electric 's server line until it folded last month . |
| 30 | He is popular in Japan , more like a movie star than a politician ( partly because his brother , Yujiro , was a real film star until he died last year ) . |