Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A minor band of approximately 30 kDa appears to increase in abundance during differentiation and is also present in CREB immunoprecipitates ( figure 5A ) . |
| 2 | Fifty-six shaikhs agreed to live in peace within their historical frontiers ( Ajdabiya to Egypt , Sudan , Chad : approximately 900,000 km² ; ) . |
| 3 | Forests and woodlands come second only to the beach as a perfect place for an away-day , with four out of 10 people preferring to picnic in style , at a designated picnic site . |
| 4 | And consequently it was also Sky 's fault that for every one person watching Sky , six people choose to tune into Football Italia on Channel 4 on Sunday afternoons . |
| 5 | Three of their children died young , but three sons survived to sit in Parliament and three daughters to marry into minor gentry families . |
| 6 | These three cases have to call into question the rights of parents , ignorant of the lives of the mentally handicapped in our society , and fearful and shocked by the discovery that they have a mentally handicapped child , to make decisions about the future of their handicapped children . |
| 7 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 8 | When 5,000 miners tried to march in protest to the capital last August , troops halted them , the government declared a state of siege and workers ' leaders were arrested under emergency powers . |
| 9 | Throughout 1990/91 Corsica continued to suffer from unrest , selective assassinations and divisions within Corsican nationalist groups [ see pp. 37686 ; 37967-68 ] . |
| 10 | In 1848 Louis-Napoleon resolved to escape from Ham . |
| 11 | He says they have 81 families waiting to move into service accomodation . |
| 12 | He pulled out a correspondence file between a landlord and tenant in Ruislip — nearly eighty pages devoted to conflict over responsibility for a dustbin area — and tried to concentrate . |
| 13 | Sturdy , 29 , denies eight charges relating to supply of counterfeit and illegal video films to several small shops throughout England . |
| 14 | erm If you take a novel like Dorothy Sayers ' Gaudy Night , which is offered as an example of a classic detective story which really is also a novel about academic life , it 's a love story , I think as a love story and as a novel of academic life it 's in many ways very good indeed , but I think as a detective story it 's completely uninteresting you know because one part has to fade in order that the , the other should come into focus . |
| 15 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 16 | Broadly speaking , a fiduciary relationship will arise when one person undertakes to act on behalf of or for the benefit of another , often as an intermediary with a discretion or power that affects the interests of the other , and that other is in a position of vulnerability in relation to the fiduciary . |
| 17 | One woman had to go to hospital . |
| 18 | No sooner has one cycle started to diminish in amplitude than another disturbance to the economy occurs , starting off a new cycle . |
| 19 | In the five steps above there were only two that were dramatic — where one partner had to speak in role and the class improvised . |
| 20 | The England striker 's 20 goals have brightened his club 's otherwise moderate campaign which at one stage threatened to end in relegation to the Second Division . |
| 21 | What 's twenty minutes got to do with bar four and bar eight Carl ? |
| 22 | On Feb. 9 Reagan agreed to testify on videotape and , on Feb. 12 , Greene agreed to allow the testimony to be recorded in Los Angeles , where Reagan lived , rather than in Washington DC as requested by Poindexter . |
| 23 | The New Survey of London Life and Labour agreed with this assessment and reported that whereas in the 1880s homework had been done primarily to supplement wages , in the 1930s women tended to work in order to buy extras , reflecting the greater regularity of men 's employment , together with a more efficient social security system for the families of the unemployed . |
| 24 | Waddesdon 's 165 acres of gardens used to be tended by 120 gardeners bound to silence in daylight . |
| 25 | Two brothers decided to go into business buying and selling beds . |
| 26 | The two firms continued to act as member firms in E&Y International , but a full merger has never been possible . |
| 27 | As of January 1991 four groupings continued to vie for control in Liberia : the Interim Government of National Unity , headed by Amos Sawyer and installed with the backing of the ECOWAS ( Economic Community of West African States ) peacekeeping force ECOMOG in November 1990 ; the Armed Forces of Liberia , the remnants of erstwhile President Samuel Doe 's forces , currently headed by Gen. Hezekiah Bowen ; the National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , led by Charles Taylor and thought to be in control of much of the countryside outside the capital Monrovia ; and the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia , led by Prince Yormie Johnson . |
| 28 | The two friends continued to live in harmony and , for Agnes in particular , the change from her lodgings was a lasting joy . |
| 29 | But you can get an idea of what each gene does by comparing the bodies of two organisms known to differ with respect to a certain gene . |
| 30 | In September 1990 Vietnam appeared to accept in principle the concept of " involuntary repatriation " , when it agreed to take back " economic migrants " who , " while not volunteering to return , are nevertheless not opposed to going back " . |