Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Insurers settle a total loss they acquire two types of rights — the entitlement to take over the Policyholder 's interest in the subject matter insured , and all the Policyholder 's rights and remedies in respect of the casualty which caused the loss . |
| 2 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 3 | One recent instance was an enquête orale into the French Resistance which interrogated 2,000 witnesses in a standard manner under central direction.6 Nor , for all the abundance , is the evidence of recent history without its gaps : historians can still argue about the nature and origin of Hitler 's decisions on policy . |
| 4 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 5 | Central South is on board the British car which has eighteen days to tackle a thousand miles of some of the wildest countryside in the world … |
| 6 | President François Mitterrand of France visited Israel on Nov. 25-27 , accompanied by a 150-member French delegation which included five ministers . |
| 7 | Sir Goldsworthy Gurney , a Cornishman , designed and built a steam-powered carriage which carried 19 passengers in 1827 . |
| 8 | On the outward run he achieved 297 m.p.h . |
| 9 | A three year old girl who fell twenty feet from a window and survived is back at home . |
| 10 | He 's handsome , he 's fit , he 's a self-made millionaire and he 's the strident enigma who spent five years dragging Glasgow Rangers into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | On one occasion he played an active role in destroying a German column which yielded twenty-five trucks and three tanks to the partisans . |
| 12 | When the meal was eaten Tom unwrapped a small brown package which contained four pieces of dark , home-made ginger cake . |
| 13 | It was a brilliant tactical move which killed seven birds with one stone , gave The Smiths four pages in Melody Maker and gave the fanzines a slice of national exposure . |
| 14 | The British navy which had 76,000 sailors at the end of the Seven Years War in 1763 , for example , had only 17,500 in the following year . |
| 15 | Eventually the goods had to be returned to their shelves and Pete departed empty-handed , with a muttered quotation from Ezra Pound , or some other poetic shyster who used four letter words . |
| 16 | There seemed no hope now , nothing to go for except a curiously marked pocket which fitted two finger tips . |
| 17 | During his racing career he rode 1,544 winners . |
| 18 | But things look different to Haraq , a tribal farmer who lost three acres of land to the smokestack . |
| 19 | Local and migrant labourers , supported by sociologists and the Catholic Church , run a social centre which houses 50 migrant labourers and offers communal lunches , child care for under-ten-year-olds , recreational activities , vocational training and preventative health care . |
| 20 | As Richard and I chronicled in our ‘ book of the ads ’ You Got an Ology ? ’ in the first two-week shoot we made ten commercials . |
| 21 | A lovely big fat rubber dub which went 3 lb 8 oz . |
| 22 | The MAI stake is down from 25 p.c. to 7 p.c. and the holding of Virtus — the French company which had 26 p.c. — has dropped to 8 p.c . |
| 23 | Thus , these roads are now in the neighbourhood of and lead immediately to a commercial port which operates 24 hours per day . |
| 24 | Natural gas contains up to 95 per cent methane , a gas with a high calorific value which requires ten times its own volume of air for complete combustion . |
| 25 | — The 84-year-old holidaymaker who journeyed 70 miles home forgetting he 'd left his wife in their broken-down car . |
| 26 | Guy Forget , the French left-hander who missed five months of the summer season after knee surgery , claimed his semi-final place with a 7-5 , 6-3 victory over Robert Seguso . |
| 27 | The fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War , Hastings was one of eight men from north of the border selected in a 30-strong party which includes 16 Englishmen , four Welshmen and two Irish players . |
| 28 | The fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War , Hastings was one of eight men from north of the border selected in a 30-strong party which includes 16 Englishmen , four Welshmen and two Irish players . |
| 29 | I use the phrase hypocritical exhortation , because I know Jim is sitting there with a tape recorder and taking note of all the words we are using today our dictionary so I think the phrase hypocritical exhortation I said three times in relation |
| 30 | It now houses the National Centre of Manzonian studies , with a precious and extensive library , consulting and reading rooms and the Manzoni Museum which includes one wing of the house left exactly as it was when the writer was alive . |