Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of the event was that 12 teams of people , most of them dressed up as rare animals , had 12 hours to get as far as possible without using any money . |
| 2 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 3 | To be sure there was still a strong response opposing Enoch Powell 's call for repatriation , from all shades of political opinion , but the racialization of public debate about the 1985 riots went much further than 1980–1 . |
| 4 | In 1757 Postlethwayt went so far as to argue that the national debt had had the effect of transferring property to the " money-mongers " at such a pace that , " Since our debts have taken place , not near one tenth of the land of England is possessed by the posterity or heirs of those who possessed it at the Revolution . " |
| 5 | It 's plain and stiff , takes at least six months to wear in properly and does n't come with designer Day-Glo flower attachments . |
| 6 | In the end all six planes came together more or less head-on . |
| 7 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 8 | The thirteen men moved closer together as they rode on . |
| 9 | Er yes well that is so this did come through er very very late indeed er in the and the Parish Council of course are in the situation where they have to cover all eventualities and what er Mr is referring to is a suggestion of using a one O six agreement to protect as far as possible the local communities when the tip is erected . |
| 10 | A five-man team of police , forensic and fire officers spent eight days carrying out more than 100 interviews . |
| 11 | The three groups co-operated loosely so that none could be isolated and stopped . |
| 12 | A comparison of the three Gospels shows not only that they have a great deal in common but also that , in many cases , the wording of individual stories is either identical or very similar ( for example , compare Mark 2:3–12 ; Matt. |
| 13 | Three things stand out clearly that are relevant to the present discussion . |
| 14 | The Three Pigeons stood as comfortably as The Two Pheasants , and the major houses round the green endured in all their Cotswold serenity . |
| 15 | Three people died almost immediately when a mini metro burst into flames . |
| 16 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 17 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |
| 18 | Half a dozen thorns and two or three elders grew together above and below a bank . |
| 19 | Before 1989 , dolphin and porpoise hunting in Japan was unregulated , and from 1981 catches rose steadily so that by 1987 over 21,000 animals were reported taken for human consumption , and the following year officially reported numbers had risen again to over 25,000 . |
| 20 | For example , A Thousand Smiles builds quite nicely but ordinarily until out of nowhere explodes this magnificent guitar . |
| 21 | Several studies have shown that whereas full-dose aspirin achieves almost immediate platelet inhibition , doses of 80 mg take as long as 48 h to become maximally effective . |
| 22 | However , a letter from the Department of the Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , stated that it would be ‘ invidious to single out the victims of this particular atrocity for special official commemoration ’ against the background of approximately 3,000 deaths resulting either directly or indirectly from violence in Northern Ireland . |
| 23 | ‘ I wouldn'a go as far as that , ’ Reid reproved me . |
| 24 | In addition these dissociation profiles appear to demonstrate that the enhanced DNase I cleavage disappears more slowly than the actual footprint . |
| 25 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 26 | dad start for Bears Speedway Exeter Falcons 54 Middlesbrough Bears 36 BORO battled hard enough but this proved to be just about the worst venue on which to open their League programme . |
| 27 | The 6 Li reacts more easily and so this is the approach used the most . |
| 28 | The 500 stars brake so violently because they are brave , strong and skilful enough to take advantage of the extraordinary power of modern brakes and the grip of the latest slicks . |
| 29 | Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable . |
| 30 | One writer went so far as to say that this construction ‘ flies in the face of the settled interpretation of this provision . ’ |