Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over a week later his forces marched on Aachen ( Aix-la-Chapelle ) which fell on 12 July and there the archbishop of Cologne , Adolf , anointed and crowned Otto . |
| 2 | During speed changes the supply voltage may decrease front 40 V to 30 V and therefore the phase current reduces from 4 A to 3 A. For simplicity assume a linear voltage decay , so the average current and the rate of change of voltage with time is if the capacitor value is The periods of constant speed operation are in duration and about 5 time constants are required for the capacitor to re-charge : The maximum charging current occurs immediately after the transistor switch is opened . |
| 3 | • Review six months or less The fee will be £5 for every |
| 4 | First , he was entitled to only six films and secondly the hire of them was not ‘ absolutely free ’ because he had to pay postage and packing . |
| 5 | A slight check forward followed , allowing the airspeed to increase to around 45 knots and then the climb commenced at around 300 to 400 ft/min . |
| 6 | Mixing aggression with an improved defensive technique , Hick reached 50 from just 79 balls and even the loss of Atherton and Richard Blakey in quick succession , leaving the innings in ruins once again , did not faze him . |
| 7 | Much more cost effective is n't it if things to be done once rather than have to do reading them two or three times and generally the reason that things are repeated a number of times is that perhaps people are not really quite sure or not that that are systems , yet productivity the better trained people are people who can do things , get it right the first time and they can do more work ca n't they than somebody else you are not having to pick it up as the manager responsible and put mistakes right . |
| 8 | The native ( adult ! ) speaker takes the simple collocation of three words as simultaneously the name of a character and a classic children 's television programme . |
| 9 | However , on half a dozen occasions or more the negotiating teams on both sides gathered , either before or at dinner , to seek to resolve the detailed problems before the Goodman proposals were ultimately embodied in legislation . |
| 10 | The ‘ misery line ’ as it is called-stations from Kennington to Morden dim and cheerless dungeons , trains cancelled with appalling regularity ( there 's a shortage of drivers on the Northern Line , because it is the last to embrace OPO-one person operation-and so the pay is lower than on other lines ) . |
| 11 | After perhaps 80 Ma or so the increase in the temperature in the sub-lithospheric mantle below the supercontinent will lead to uplift , rifting and continental fragmentation . |
| 12 | For two thousand years and more the branch of philosophy known as metaphysics had dealt with arguments and proofs about the existence and nature of God , his relation to the world and human beings , and such related matters as human freedom and life beyond death . |
| 13 | True the archivist dealing with assorted disks from the 1970s office or even the politician 's word processor will leave detailed markup to others , but the demands of producing simple headers seems very relevant here ( Burnard 1993 ) . |
| 14 | The typical Lincolnshire windmill was the brick-built tapering towermill which varied in height from about fifty feet to ninety feet and was surmounted by an ogee cap carrying four to eight sails and also the fantail . |
| 15 | I waited another ten minutes and then the ritual was repeated , a different man , another office . |
| 16 | The average surface temperature on Venus is also much higher than on the Earth , 730 K instead of 288 K. The troposphere extends up to an altitude of about 60 km , and in its lower 50 km or so the lapse-rate is adiabatic . |
| 17 | At this speed the optimum switching angle is 6 degrees and therefore the choice of switching angle is limited to the range 0–6 degrees . |
| 18 | The dose was selected to be comparable er , each strain was comparable to the other in terms of dose , B G C was instilled for one hour and then the patient er underwent er weekly installations for six weeks . |
| 19 | Slowly , with her fists clenched tightly and her lips pursed , she put one foot and then the other out on to the first stepping-stone . |
| 20 | You could also use the medicine ball in a one-armed shot put action , using first one side and then the other . |
| 21 | There had ensued a formidable civil war , with the barons backing one side and then the other , while the Angevins undermined Stephen 's kingship with carefully laid plans of their own . |
| 22 | Then place your hands on your hips and stretch over to one side and then the other . |
| 23 | The reason is that at slow speeds it moves both legs on the same side of the body forward at the same time , first one side and then the other . |
| 24 | With difficulty she rolled his dead weight first to one side and then the other to search his pockets . |
| 25 | She sensed his fear and , perceiving that he had placed this construction upon their encounter , pressed herself closer to the soft protuberance of his cock , touching his balls with her cheeks , one side and then the other , wheedling the while . |
| 26 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 27 | The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other . |
| 28 | Closing one eye and then the other reveals the same scene with the position of objects shifted slightly , particularly those nearby . |
| 29 | The resignation of Sir Geoffrey Howe , the Deputy Prime Minister and last remaining member of Mrs Thatcher 's original 1979 Cabinet , on 1 November provided both the issue and the trigger . |
| 30 | They also point out that during the past five years or so the proportion of part-time students has remained roughly constant at about one-third of the total . |