Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mercenary captain John of Hainault brought a force of 500 men-at-arms from the Low Countries , and at York they became involved in a violent affray with a band of archers from Lincolnshire , which culminated in the deaths of a sizeable number of the Lincolnshire men . |
| 2 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 3 | There are more than 260 ways to spell 18 to 20 basic English vowel sounds , and there are another 226 forms for the 23 consonants . |
| 4 | He also used transactions data on MMI futures for the same periods . |
| 5 | Madness , who attracted 65,000 fans to the two concerts netted over £100,000 in merchandising sales and now plan a full-scale British tour . |
| 6 | It has declined to lift restrictions that would prevent the beneficiaries from voting on the proposals , which are supported in respect of 79 p.c. of the ordinary shares and 92 p.c. of the convertibles . |
| 7 | ( 1 ) Heparin-bovine serum albumin(BSA) conjugate ( a model proteoglycan ) and VCAM-1 ( an endothelial ligand for VLA-4 ) were co-immobilized on plastic ; ( 2 ) MIP-1 β was added and then washed out to assess only the effect of immobilized cytokine ; and ( 3 ) we assayed binding of resting CD8 + T cells to all eight combinations of the three components : integrin ligand , proteoglycan and cytokine ( Fig. 2 a ) . |
| 8 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 9 | Yesterday Botham marched along the Paignton seafront clocking the incredible time of six hours and 12 minutes over the 26.4 miles . |
| 10 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 11 | While little overall change has occurred since 1967 , these figures represented a marked decline compared with 1938 , when Walpole-Bond 's account indicated a population of well over 300 pairs in the main levels , and suggested a wider distribution in small areas of marsh in the interior . |
| 12 | The Association normally publishes a list of the 12 Branches with the best Wings Appeal total , but in 1990 a new club was formed , ‘ The 10,000 Club ’ . |
| 13 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 14 | Over 700 acres on the northern slopes are set aside specifically for public recreational use , ie Hillend and Bonaly Parks which are under consideration for designation as Country Parks . |
| 15 | Burglar sentenced : Jamie Raper , 20 , of Wharfe Way , Darlington , was yesterday sentenced at Teesside Crown Court to 12 months in a young offenders ' institution after he admitted burgling a house in Carmel Road North , Darlington . |
| 16 | FIG. 2 Superposition of the refined structures of native R2 ( green ) and apoR2 ( multicolours ) using the Program O ( ref. 25 ) . |
| 17 | The proposed mast will be some forty feet above the surrounding trees and will be detrimental to the visual amenity of the area . |
| 18 | Ken Martin , services co-ordinator said : ‘ The five trees looked magnificent lit up in the evening at 300 feet on the cooling towers and furnaces . |
| 19 | The Foreign Ministers of the " Group of Rio " countries , representing Bolivia , Brazil , Chile , Colombia , Ecuador , Mexico , Paraguay , Peru , Uruguay and Venezuela , met with their counterparts from the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) for a summit in the Italian capital , Rome , on Dec. 20 . |
| 20 | Signatories were the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) , Albania , Armenia , Australia , Austria , Azerbaijan , Byelarus , Bulgaria , Canada , Cyprus , Czechoslovakia , Finland , Georgia , Hungary , Iceland , Japan , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Malta , Norway , Poland , Romania , Russia , Sweden , Switzerland , Tadjikistan , Turkey , Ukraine , United States , Uzbekistan , Yugoslavia ( the Belgrade government ) , the EC itself , and the recently formed Interstate Economic Committee of the ( still at that stage existing ) Soviet Union [ see p. 38581 ] . |
| 21 | The agreement signed on May 2 , 1992 , to create a 19-member European Economic Area ( EEA — see p. 38931 ) , embracing the 12 countries of the European Communities ( EC ) and the seven countries in the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) , did not enter into force as intended on Jan. 1 , 1993 . |
| 22 | In a laboratory context , the isolation of the respondent during a T 1 — T 2 period of a few hours should remove this effect ; even changes such as sunlight may need to be eliminated . |
| 23 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |
| 24 | The research , carried out over 30 years by the joint directors of the Child Development Research Unit at Nottingham University , shows that two-thirds of babies are smacked before the age of one , that three-quarters of four-year-olds are smacked once a week or more , and that by the age of seven , 22 per cent have been hit with implements . |
| 25 | He said he still had to work out an acceptable solution to the dispute created by Israel 's deportation of 415 Palestinians from the occupied territories to an icy no man 's land in south Lebanon , where 396 of them remain . |
| 26 | Our four hypertension related male deaths all occurred in the first 12 years of the 21 years of follow up , suggesting their treatment was probably begun too late . |
| 27 | Alan Winmill 's defection is being hailed as a conserable coup by the Conservatives just 2 days before the local elections . |
| 28 | The following cases were included in a much longer article entitled Fifty Millesimal Potencies — An Introduction which appeared in the November 1985 edition of The Hahnemannian Gleanings . |
| 29 | In earlier version of the program it was impossible to line anything up anyway because the program 's internal accuracy was insufficient ; the classic 11 point being converted by the program into 10.98 point with the rounding errors occasionally throwing an extra line on or off the page . |
| 30 | So forty pounds minus the two pounds , or if you want to be totally accurate , two pounds and tuppence , policy fee , will leave thirty seven pounds ninety eight . |