Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1935 Kenneth had discovered the pleasures of composing serious music and had several works published . |
| 2 | In fact the 3000 MkIII had gone the way of many a sports car in its dotage and started to take on a softer aspect . |
| 3 | Over 500 candidates have completed the course so far and all have visited Lyles . |
| 4 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 5 | However , much publicised defections from the 88000 camp have thrown the future of the part as a mainstream CPU product into doubt , and observers are wondering whether NeXT might not just hotfoot it straight to the IBM-Apple-Motorola PowerPC . |
| 6 | Vets spent 2 hours operating to reset the wing . |
| 7 | By Feb. 12 Comelec had reduced the number of presidential candidates to the following eight ( plus vice-presidential running mates ) : Ramon " Monching " Mitra and Marcelo Fernan ; Fidel Ramos and Emilio " Lito " Osmena ; Eduardo " Danding " Cojuangco and John Osmena ; Imelda Marcos and Vic Magsaysay ; Salvador " Doy " Laurel and Rodolfo Ganzon ; Jovito Salonga and Aquilino Pimentel ; Joseph " Erap " Estrada and Vicente Rivera ; Miriam Defensor Santiago and Ed Maranan . |
| 8 | Last night a highly placed source said the last 12 months had spelt the end of the marriage . |
| 9 | Following the award of Magna Carta in 1215 Elias helped distribute the charter around the shires , becoming an enthusiastic adherent of the rebel barons and preaching their cause at St Paul 's cross in London . |
| 10 | By the mid-1670s Peyton had become the leader of a republican group , ‘ Peyton 's Gang ’ , and it has been argued that this group had a hand in the murder of the JP Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey [ q.v. ] in 1678 , which provoked widespread belief in the bogus ‘ Popish Plot ’ . |
| 11 | The 1834 Act had made the mother wholly responsible for her illegitimate child so that the privileges of marriage would not be extended to the undeserving . |
| 12 | The relief sought is an order of certiorari , and the principal ground on which relief is sought is that in relation to Winchester the board of Lautro had on 30 October failed to observe the rules of natural justice . |
| 13 | The pancreatic secretion was collected from the pancreatic fistula in small preweighed vials in 30 minute aliquots to measure the volume flow and protein outputs as described previously . |
| 14 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 15 | A report of the day states , " December the 20th 1892 a novel football match was played between Halling and Snodland , the match was played during the evening under artificial lights , the lights were three Wells lights lent by Mr H. Anderson , more than 300 people assembled to watch the match " . |
| 16 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 17 | 200 to 300 students had visited the Chaplaincy on the open day for prospective students and a ‘ welcome night ’ by the Catholic Chaplaincy attracted about 50 students . |
| 18 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 19 | CCG 's response to the Food Safety ACt continues : so far this year another 300 employees have gained the company 's Food Hygiene Certificate on successful completion of the end of course test . |
| 20 | Figure 13.9 Proportion prepared to break the law by alienation by experience of unemployment in last five years |
| 21 | The speculation aroused by the British Chancellor of the Exchequer 's statements at the Ecofin meeting in September 1991 that there could be an inner core of eight countries served to emphasise the difficulties of reconciling such a proposal with a wider Europe and to draw attention to the two-speed concept . |
| 22 | Rodríguez had refused to attend the final session on June 18 of the National Constituent Assembly , which over the previous six months had drafted the Constitution , because of the Assembly 's approval of a " transitory clause " on June 15 which ensured that he was included in a general constitutional ban on presidents standing for re-election . |
| 23 | But now it 's recruiting three hundred temporary employees for between three and six months to help launch the production of several new machines . |
| 24 | But now it 's recruiting three hundred temporary employees for between three and six months to help launch the production of several new machines . |
| 25 | On April 7 Mitterrand had announced the cancellation of a further 10 per cent of Poland 's US$5,200 million debt to France , Poland 's second largest creditor . |
| 26 | In London , the 1888 Act had created the London County Council ( LCC ) as an administrative county comprising Parts of Middlesex , Surrey and Kent . |
| 27 | Figures released at yesterday 's meeting of the station 's Local Community Liaison Council show that so far this year more than 8,000 visitors have visited the station , 70pc up on the same period last year . |
| 28 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 29 | Figure 13.10 Proportion prepared to break the law by age by terminal education age |
| 30 | All six companies appeared to find the outlooks from Henley useful . |