Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 2 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 3 | However , a glance at a catalogue issued in the 1920s illustrates how little the designs have changed over the last seventy years . |
| 4 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 5 | Average property yields have fallen for the second consecutive quarter to 9.2pc , according to property agent Hillier Parker . |
| 6 | ‘ To sustain healthy profit margins , multinational tobacco companies have turned to the Third World for new customers . |
| 7 | In the Czechoslovakian town of Bratislava , cancers have risen by a third , heart complaints by 40 per cent , infant mortality by two-thirds and miscarriages by half since 1970 , thanks to deadly air pollutants from nearby industries . |
| 8 | Hareven 's view is that economic circumstances have eased in the twentieth century , for most people , so that the alignment of individual time and family time has increasingly become a voluntary matter , whereas the stark economic conditions of the nineteenth century made this an absolute necessity ( Hareven , 1978 ) . |
| 9 | The assisted area map will change not because the Government will change but because circumstances have changed since the last review . |
| 10 | The aggressive patrols directed at the German lines have increased since the 12th June , no doubt to keep them on their toes . |
| 11 | This is not a book about graduate employment , on which a number of important analyses have appeared in the last decade ( Lindley 1981 ; Roizen and Jepson 1985 ; Harland and Gibbs 1986 ; Tarsh 1988 ; Brennan and McGeevor 1988 ; Boys and Kirkland 1988 ; Boys et al . |
| 12 | On time deliveries have improved over the last 19 months from 40% to 98% . |
| 13 | The bishops ' pre-occupation , too , was with structured administration , which the registers of their activities begin to record from the thirteenth century . |
| 14 | Figure 3 shows that the highest frequency of intolerances seem to occur in the first eight weeks after completing the course of elemental diet . |
| 15 | The offer of longer-term rewards for continuous employment in Japanese firms is common to large and small firms but as Figure 3.4 indicates the profiles begin to diverge after the fifteenth year . |
| 16 | Several RAF stations have closed in the last couple of weeks including Kemble , Abingdon , and Greenham Common In Berkshire . |
| 17 | Immediately before school entry ( provided at least three years have elapsed from the third and last dose of the primary course ) and between 15–19 years or before leaving school are the times for boosters . |
| 18 | ARSONISTS have struck for the second time in five days at a Middlesbrough park . |
| 19 | In Birmingham , the dealers have gathered for the 11th British Antiques Fair ( Thursday to the following Wednesday ) , while over the Border , there is still time to catch Pen Panting 's second one-man show , at the Glasgow Print Studio . |
| 20 | CHURCH collections have fallen for the first time for more than a decade , it emerged today . |
| 21 | Mr Bishko says sales volumes need to rise by a fifth or a quarter for the US operation to break even , and more stores will be needed before it makes a satisfactory profit . |
| 22 | Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Fujitsu Ltd have now completed preparations for their Fujitsu-AMD Semiconductor Ltd joint venture on Flash memories , and groundbreaking for a $700m wafer fabrication facility in Aizu-Wakamatsu , Japan , is set for June with operations set to begin in the fourth quarter of this year . |
| 23 | While ‘ The Month of August ’ and a number of other poems which pursue sexual and economic questions do appear in the first volume , Leapor 's most angry works were left out . |
| 24 | Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension . |
| 25 | Now that you have a clear idea of what regression therapy involves , it is time to look at the sort of problems that cause people to need such therapy — why and how such problems have arisen in the first place and how they can limit people 's lives and potential . |
| 26 | I know that the hon. Gentleman has a considerable understanding of education issues and will realise that all the independent evidence suggests that the problems have worsened over the last few years . |
| 27 | ‘ The man 's problems have intensified in the last few weeks and it 's reached the stage where he 's late at least three mornings a week now . ’ |
| 28 | The Employment Secretary has told jobless people in Gloucestershire the county is better off for work than most places … even though dole queues have doubled in the last two years . |
| 29 | Case studies of three examples of corporate reorganisation consider the way in which corporate structures have changed during the last two decades , and the implications of this for the geography of service production . |
| 30 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |