Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [art] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experts believed that the death toll could have been much higher but for the recently installed early warning system which had allowed time for many people to move to safety or to use the 300 concrete cyclone shelters built under the Cyclone Preparedness Programme , run mainly by the Bangladesh Red Crescent . |
| 2 | Is it still feasible for the British Parliament to pass an Act repealing or amending the 1972 European Communities Act which enshrined the Treaty of Rome in British law ? |
| 3 | If I lived in , , , , ten years waiting list , ten years waiting list to have the opportunity , if there is an opportunity to come , to own or get a three bedroomed house . |
| 4 | These can be displayed , cleared or have the four basic operations performed on them allowing eleven different sums to be carried out simultaneously . |
| 5 | So one of my giants saunters over and kicks the two miserable chickens into positions suitable for having their shoes and trousers pulled off . |
| 6 | Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones . |
| 7 | The student has identified and highlighted the three major aspects of the topic on which he is likely to be questioned . |
| 8 | Microplanning — programme analysis and review The 1970 White Paper on Public Expenditure argued that the PESC system needed strengthening . |
| 9 | Some , from lower viewpoints , gave glimpses of the faceted dome that covered the expanse of space ; others looked down and revealed the four tiny figures balanced a hundred metres above a vast , circular , grey plain . |
| 10 | In 1898 Emma , Lady Sherborne , converted the Lodge into her dower house , built two little lodges to herald its and her own grandeur and to house her staff , destroyed the staircase and made the two long rooms into four apartments . |
| 11 | In the Usnea-Andreaea association of lichens and mosses the two named genera are usually represented , together with other species of lichens and algae . |
| 12 | This basilica , overlooking the river Esla , is 70 feet long and has a five bay nave separated from the aisles by marble columns with mixed capitals — Roman , Visigothic and tenth century Mozarabic ( these last-named are palm leaf designs as in the Cordovan Mosque ) . |
| 13 | Her Majesty has honoured the Works by visiting it on three occasions , the first on 11 March 1948 as Princess Elizabeth , when she toured the Works and inspected the two new saloons that had been converted from two ex-Chairman 's Saloons ( built Wolverton 1942 ) for the personal use of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh . |
| 14 | Feeding and protecting the six Muslim enclaves will take an open-ended commitment from an overstretched UN that is suffering its usual agonies with unpaid peacekeeping bills . |
| 15 | Leaving Rosie in charge , he went to investigate and found a three cornered argument in progress . |
| 16 | The chair is made by folding the mattress and inserting the two opposite ends into two fabric pockets . |
| 17 | Erlich lifted the sheet further and studied the two gaping exit wounds . |
| 18 | The authors demonstrate that by means of rigorous and consistent aim-directed assessment and training the sixty-three young adults who underwent the ‘ Wentwood Experience ’ were enabled to be relatively less dependent on others in the basic skills of daily living . |
| 19 | Instead of using a jack to take the weight , Jos turned his back on the front bumper , bent his knees and lifted the two leading tyres clear of the ground . |
| 20 | Thus , the most useful way of analysing the first two precedents is to compare the provisions in each of them which relate to the same contractual issues and consider the two different approaches . |
| 21 | So each day , after the small chores of cleaning kitchen , making beds and cleaning the two main bathrooms , she would also perform a thorough cleaning of one room , washing mirrors and windows , waxing any visible wooden floors , cleaning the small ornaments , dusting ceilings and walls and furniture surfaces , and vacuuming . |
| 22 | In Egypt he added DM150 million to the DM1,000 million already promised to help cover Egypt 's costs in the war , and pledged a dozen armoured gas detection vehicles from the former East German arsenal . |
| 23 | Myself , I peered out of the front gate , and acknowledged the two white-helmeted sentries in their box . |
| 24 | The fellow stepped back , affronted by the question , but Corbett opened his hand and showed the two silver coins . |
| 25 | Lewis took the envelope handed him , postmarked Stratford-upon-Avon , and withdrew the two hand-written sheets . |
| 26 | She helped him push the motorbike combination over the cliffs into the sea , and drop the two dead men down a deep narrow crevice where they were n't likely to be discovered . |
| 27 | After French Museums proved unable to agree over the price at which the paintings should go to the Museum of Melun , however , France 's Monuments Historiques moved in and declared the two still lifes the first paintings , after van Gogh 's ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , to be historic monuments and thus unable to leave France . |
| 28 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 29 | I snap , eyeing the lobsters , and observing a dozen fat oysters , discreetly arranged around them , which I had n't noticed before . |
| 30 | They tried to reconcile the different strengths , ranges and parity properties of the weak and electromagnetic interactions , and to convert the two separate theories into a unified theory . |