Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sir Eric Horrocks gave five thousand pounds for her last year . |
| 32 | How a president and council representative can support a centre was the last subject of the afternoon when Don Piper FCIB , Council Representative , Bromley & North Kent , and John Harris FCIB , President , London West End addressed all 255 delegates . |
| 33 | As Lord McCarthy noted some 13 years ago , the management side of the councils comprise ‘ employers who do not pay and paymasters who do not employ . ’ |
| 34 | Antigonus Monophthalmus had ninety thousand soldiers at Ipsus in 301 B.C. ; the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic army each consisted of about seventy thousand soldiers at Raphia in 217 B.C. The Roman superiority lay in the capacity for replacement — that is , in the capacity for surviving defeat in one or more battles , as the war against Pyrrhus and the second Punic War amply proved . |
| 35 | This feature of the parallelistic couplet , otherwise known as " climactic " or " repetitive " parallelism , or the " expanded colon " , has long been recognized.23 W.G.E. Watson notes some forty examples , 24 including Jer 31.21 : |
| 36 | Lord Leverhulme has eight thousand acres in Lancashire and another twenty-seven thousand acres in Sutherland . |
| 37 | Six years later the Catalogus Plantarum listed forty three roses and stressed the importance of growing them informally because ‘ being intermix't with flowering trees and shrubs in small wilderness quarters [ they ] afford the most agreeable prospect of any of the Flowering Trees and the great variety of Sorts do continue flowering at least three months . |
| 38 | The equally fabulous ( equal because equally incomprehensible ) BILL ION becomes one thousand times as big , as it should be : P£25 . |
| 39 | Taking advantage of the good weather and the amazing lack of activity since his last blitz , Andy Nisbet returned to the quartzite and sandstone cliffs of Coire Mhic Fhearchair on Beinn Eighe adding another ten routes with various partners ( more details next mont ) . |
| 40 | Between 1928 and independence the Ivory Coast had some fifty newspapers , but few of them lasted long . |
| 41 | The seed content of droppings throughout 1 year in a rain forest in Ivory Coast comprised some 37 species of trees and five of herbs . |
| 42 | Ms McVicar said 3.9 million payment books had been issued in Scotland , but even the ‘ official doctored figures ’ showed that 700,000 people had not paid . |
| 43 | That was police instructor Sean Corty demonstrating one hundred percent road concentration . |
| 44 | ABOVE : Ben Weaver hooked this 19 lb 2 oz specimen in the nick of time — a few moments later gale force winds made fishing impossible . |
| 45 | PC Fishwick said these two incidents highlight the crucial role the public can play in helping the police to detect crime . |
| 46 | Mark Nolan took all six singles as they beat Boreham 7–3 and Danbury C by 6–4 . |
| 47 | Several hundred Canadian and US police in the early hours of May 2 entered the 5,000-hectare St Regis Mohawke Akwesasne reservation , straddling the US-Canadian border between Quebec and New York State some 60 miles south-west of Montreal . |
| 48 | General Larry Welch said 50 Mx missiles , instead of 100 , and 300 Midgetmen , instead of 500 , would make a nice litter . |
| 49 | DIEGO Maradona made all three goals in his comeback match for Seville in a friendly against Bayern Munich in Spain last night . |
| 50 | The new boulevards and open spaces that Baron Haussmann created displaced 350,000 people and some one-fifth of the streets of central Paris . |
| 51 | That after noon a U-boat sank SS Athenia. carrying eleven hundred passengers and three hundred crew from Liverpool to America . |
| 52 | The shock report from City bank Morgan Grenfell says 1.5 million borrowers now owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth . |
| 53 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |