Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , once the temperature had dropped to a few thousand degrees , and electrons and nuclei no longer had enough energy to overcome the electromagnetic attraction between them , they would have started combining to form atoms . |
| 2 | BETTING shop manager Sian Collier was stabbed to death after being robbed of a few hundred pounds by a regular punter . |
| 3 | The section prescribes the procedure under which premises operated under an hotel licence , a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , a public house licence , or a refreshment licence ( where , as regards premises operated under the latter two types of licence , an application for Sunday opening has been granted in virtue of Sched. 4 ) may have permitted hours on a Sunday which commence at 5 p.m. ( subs . |
| 4 | The fish farming industry has grown from a few hundred tonnes of fish in 1980 to 33,000 tonnes per annum in 1990 . |
| 5 | The gastric pH was measured in the same six volunteers who had participated in the gastric emptying study . |
| 6 | Suppose , however , that the game was played between the same two opponents ten times . |
| 7 | Mr John Towers , managing director , said that in the five days after the poll sales had risen by 20 per cent compared with the same five days last year . |
| 8 | The initiative , set up after a meeting between sub divisional commanders , will end with results being compared with the same two months last year . |
| 9 | The orthodox clerics were distinguished from the Presbyterians and from those dubbed Puritans not by a differing theology of salvation , but rather by the fact that they did not share the intensified spirituality displayed by the latter two groups , a spirituality which Lake and R. T. Kendall have labelled ‘ experimental ’ predestinarianism . |
| 10 | At Rosemarkie in the Black Isle , north-east of Inverness , a remarkable number of stones were found within a few hundred yards of the present Groam House museum , indicating past importance as a tribal and then a religious centre . |
| 11 | The answers are to be found in the same 1979 manifesto which , Mrs Thatcher warned , contained ‘ no lavish promises ’ . |
| 12 | Telomere function seems to be fully defined within a few hundred base pairs in ciliates or yeasts and thousands base pairs in vertebrates . |
| 13 | On Sunday , a party of anglers from Carrickfergus SAC led by Ian Eaglen and Angela Crerard from Lough Swilly SAC fished on the same three wrecks . |
| 14 | The decay of the transient absorption was monitored over a few hundred microseconds , following a 30 ns photolysis flash [ 25 ] . |
| 15 | Comte produced his ‘ law of the three stages ’ of societal development which maintained that all societies , past , present and future , necessarily passed through the same three stages of development . |
| 16 | Nicola Buxton who , like Hall , will be playing in the Curtis Cup at Hoylake on June 5 and 6 , finished on the same 160 tally as Mhairi McKay , the Daily Telegraph 's Young Golfer of 1991 . |
| 17 | In the thorax and abdomen , for example , the nervous system consists of a chain of paired ‘ ganglia ’ each composed of a few thousand cells . |
| 18 | They 're tempted by a few hundred pounds to go to places such as Amsterdam where cheap and plentiful crugs can be bought and brought back to Britain . |
| 19 | Since this distribution is similar to that obtained in Study 2 these 14 categories were divided into the same six categories that were used in that study . |
| 20 | The training of barristers can , like that of solicitors , be divided into the same three stages : academic , vocational and apprenticeship . |
| 21 | Mother 's address as recorded in the delivery register was used to assign births to 5 km bands round the nuclear establishments in the study area , and controls were chosen from the same 5 km band as their associated case . |