Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every British geology student knows about the " liver-coloured " quartzite pebbles which are found in our Triassic conglomerates ( referred to earlier ) and which are said to have come all the way from the Ordovician " Gres Armoricain " and " Gres de May " of Brittany ( plate 1.13 ) , even though this implies the transportation of pebbles up to 20 or 30 cm diameter for several hundred kilometres up to the English Midlands . |
| 2 | The Court had approved the payment of fees up to 15 April and since then , with the authority of the Court and the approval of the creditors ' committee , Touche has drawn on account fees that have not yet been formally approved . |
| 3 | Agents Mathews and Goodman are looking for rents of around ££10 a sq ft for space in Martin 's Building as it becomes free for letting with a range of suites up to 14,000 sq ft being available . |
| 4 | Hammocks were comfortable , secure and private Iain MacLaren 's letter ( Points of View , 20 February ) about his experiences as a National Service army medical officer will no doubt bring a flood of memories back to many readers regarding those ‘ halcyon days ’ when they served Queen , or King and country . |
| 5 | It looks at the north-south divide , and at the shift of jobs out of major cities . |
| 6 | Eric Stonebanks , the first Group Secretary , in his published survey of the Bedford Group of Hospitals up to 1958 , wrote that : |
| 7 | The BGS publishes a ‘ Catalogue of Printed Maps ’ which lists the availability of maps down to 1:25 000 scale . |
| 8 | There is fairly high participation in a variety of informal and formal organizations and the development of friendships out of this voluntary participation . |
| 9 | So that was the main tree planting , this avenue of trees down on either side of this little path . |
| 10 | Tab the tinker , who had come in to be shriven , had agreed to fashion a coffin of sorts out of thin planks of wood . |
| 11 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 12 | She was purchased by a syndicate of members along with 1941 two cylinder diesel shunter ‘ Solto ’ 325 . |
| 13 | The second ‘ Standard for Indoor General Storage ’ N.F.P.A number 231 , deals with storage of materials up to 7.5 metres in height representing the broad range of combustibles , stored in solid or palletised piles . |
| 14 | The inflexibility of prices up to full employment in effect makes the AS curve the inverted L-shape , P EAS . |
| 15 | Immediately after the war the government mismanaged the discharge of servicemen back into civilian life , and unemployment rose rapidly . |
| 16 | Around 300,000 Lynx are expected to be sold in the UK this year , bringing the number of owners up to 500,000 . |
| 17 | It says that output grew by 30 per cent between 1982 and 1990 , with the number of companies up from 144,000 in 1980 to 171,000 in 1991 . |
| 18 | The fingerboard is plain , dot-free Indian rosewood , with a two-fret extension over the soundhole to bring the number of frets up to twenty-two ; The frets themselves are hard nickel silver , made in Holland — not the kind that will need replacing after a year or so . |
| 19 | Bringing the WSR 's total number of stations back to ten , Britain 's longest preserved railway can now boast as many operating stations in Somerset as British Rail once again ! |
| 20 | Keep the number of witnesses down to five or six . |
| 21 | There were not the multitude of motorcars about in those days , as there are now , but that was one of the firms that was trying to make it , and has done it , like that . |
| 22 | You can take a B A I E examination without being a member of the association at any level because I 've said that what we should do is we should insist because Napier want to bring a lot of students in on this |
| 23 | And it were a lot of money , a a lot of money , and they pay a lot of benefits out of that now because the old man used to have it you see ? |
| 24 | It is true that the hon. Lady said in column 687 a couple of years back on 15 March 1990 — that there was ’ no support among GPs ’ — |
| 25 | I should n't think you could afford to take a couple of days off at such short notice . |
| 26 | Moreover , the major source of under-recording on the balance of payments up to 1949 was invisible trade . |
| 27 | Authorities ordered coal-based power production cut to 50 per cent on pain of fines up to five million crowns ( £129,000 ) . |
| 28 | This is accomplished by metaphorically fitting the discourse of astrophysics on to that of psychology . |