Example sentences of "[coord] [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was n't too keen on two or three of the swear words , ’ he said , ‘ and I asked if I could leave them out . |
| 2 | And finally Morgan , looking again at solitary well differentiated tumours , suggested a regime similar to that of Palmer 's , namely missing out two or three of the check cystoscopies in the first year . |
| 3 | There is a special régime for insurance companies which are authorised to conduct business under sections 3 or 4 of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 . |
| 4 | The preparation of the material may be undertaken by the trial judge , or one of the trial judges , or by another judge or court officer whose primary work consists of such preparation . |
| 5 | After washing , particularly if your skin is oily , apply a mild astringent such as rosewater ( or one of the skin tonics suggested in Chapter 5 ) . |
| 6 | Sometimes the reverse gear flap spring can come off and jam the selectors , or one of the roll pins which hold the selectory together can move . |
| 7 | And again we talked last week about the use of colour in photographs in brochures and things , if you like , to reinforce the sunshine element when you 're sat in the snow in the winter watching Wish You Were Here or one of the holiday programmes . |
| 8 | Couched in the right terms , that seems to fall within the ambit of a Consolidated Fund Bill debate , or one of the Adjournment debates before we go off for Christmas . |
| 9 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 10 | After his retirement there was no place where he took more delight in an invitation to talk than in one of the Cambridge churches or one of the college chapels . |
| 11 | They 'd be on cup three or four amid the toast fragments , still relaxed but just beginning to wake up to the day 's promise , when Mrs Goreng and myself would join them for what was left of the luke-warm coffee . |
| 12 | With the advent of the Youth Training Scheme ( started in 1983 ) one or two of the dairy farmers had taken on 16 year olds for the one year of the Scheme to lessen their own work load . |
| 13 | Theda 's gaze ran over the shadowed building , dark but for a faint glimmer behind one or two of the myriad windows , dismay flooding her breast . |
| 14 | One or two of the shop windows nearby were lacking glass , while others had a white star painted on them . |
| 15 | And he made one or two of the garage men you know really the the you could see one or two were taken aback by the things he were saying , and it was er very very professionally put over . |
| 16 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 17 | If Pickering survives a fitness test on a twisted ankle , coach Peter Walsh is sure his fierce Fijian-born prop will blast a hole or two in the Trophy favourites ' defence . |
| 18 | Right in nineteen ninety three , twenty five pound to the Police Widows and Orphans , hundred and fifty to the Girl Guides , two hundred and fifty Busy Otters , two hundred pound to Ottery Football , a thousand pound to Ottery Dyslexia Association , two hundred pounds to the W R V S for Talking Books for the Partially Sighted , fifty pounds for the Primary School , and fifty pounds for the St John 's Ambulance . |
| 19 | Soviet policy appeared to shift on Jan. 30 when Pugo announced that all the paratroopers and two-thirds of the OMON units were being withdrawn . |
| 20 | BEN MARTIN 'S incredible run has continued in rounds seven and eight of the Netway Masters in Auckland , New Zealand . |
| 21 | Taking for example v = 1 and 2 for the conductor surfaces we have solved an electrostatic problem as may be seen in Fig. 2.26 . |
| 22 | Six UK cable television operators , Comcast Ltd , General Cable Ltd , Diamond Cable Ltd and three of the Baby Bells , Nynex Corp , Pacific Telesis Group Inc and Southwestern Bell Corp are coming together to apply for the Personal Communications Network frequencies freed up by the merger of the Unitel consortium with Mercury Personal Communications Ltd : the companies want licences to offer the cellular service within their franchise areas , CommunicationsWeek International says . |
| 23 | It is sufficient to note here that under ss1 , 2 and 4 of the Resale Prices Act 1976 , collective agreement between manufacturers and dealers to withhold supplies from those who do not observe laid down resale prices or charges for hiring , hire purchase , or conditional sale are unlawful . |
| 24 | There were four recurrences in the ursodeoxycholic acid , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups , corresponding to 21.9 ( 9.9 ) % , 27.4 ( 10.1 ) % , and 45.8 ( 12.4 ) % respectively at 42 months by lifetable analysis ( NS ) . |
| 25 | Recurrence in the three treatment groups ( Fig 4 ) — Of the 21 recurrences diagnosed according to the trial criteria , there were four in the ursodeoxycholic acid treated , six in the placebo , and 11 in the diet groups . |
| 26 | In the middle ages the lord of the manor was regarded as legally responsible for the relief of the poor and one-quarter of the church tithes were also customarily set aside for this purpose . |
| 27 | My word but you were n't frightened of him because you were told that he was an old man and one of the road men of the road . |
| 28 | This danger has clearly been anticipated and one of the working papers states that ‘ … the Secretary of State will need reserve powers to prevent a self-governing hospital with anything near to a monopoly of service provision from exploiting its position , for example by charging unreasonably high prices for its services ’ ( DoH , 1989b , para. 2.15 ) . |
| 29 | Here the whole of the site was lightly cordoned off , and one of the Park Attendants was talking to ( the newly promoted ) Sergeant Dixon as Morse and Lewis moved alongside . |
| 30 | Pvc liners can also be repaired with a patch ( possibly an offcut ) and one of the pvc adhesives that are widely available . |