Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points . |
| 2 | The recipes do n't actually tell the adventurers what the potions do , of course ( although an Alchemist among the adventurers is allowed an Int test with a +20 bonus to guess the general nature of the effects ) , but they are worth 150 GCs apiece to an alchemist . |
| 3 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO is 7-2 favourite to win the Million Dollar Challenge , which begins in Sun City today . |
| 5 | Before starting the study , pressures were recorded for 30 minutes to check the correct functioning of the recording system and to allow the subjects to accommodate to the catheters . |
| 6 | Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class . |
| 7 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |
| 8 | Preliminary data analysis involved a summation of the initial 30 images to form a composite image outlining the arterial phase of tracer transit through the hepatobiliary system . |
| 9 | THE Government 's decision to levy value-added tax on domestic fuel and power has prompted ScottishPower to carry out a review over the next 12 months to determine the possible impact the tax will have on its 1.6 million domestic customers . |
| 10 | Argos said it would be important over the coming 12 months to contain the additional cost pressures from the pound 's devaluation . |
| 11 | A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in . |
| 12 | Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling . |
| 13 | 2 Failure to develop a corporate-wide approach to quality which would align the relevant information and management systems and processes . |
| 14 | He had execution of the warrant for his arrest stayed for twenty-one days to allow the young peer to appeal . |
| 15 | You should allow at least 12 weeks to obtain a British passport . |
| 16 | A DoH Press Release reported that a total of 113 applications to join the second wave of Trusts had been received . |
| 17 | Data processing is achieved automatically : TableCurve can use all of its 221 equations to find a best fit , or the ‘ special function ’ equations can be omitted or ‘ simple ’ equations selected . |
| 18 | Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March . |
| 19 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 20 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 21 | The Under 13 Clarkson Shield semi-finals ended all square after extra time , Stanfield ( Quinn 2 , Ruby 2 ) overcame a 3-0 deficit to force a 4-4 draw with Tramways ( Gill 2 , McDonald , Barton ) and Four Swallows ( Carroll , King ) had a 2-0 advantage but then missed a penalty allowing Athlone to hit back through Kennedy and Randalls to equalise . |
| 22 | A February 1991 decision to devalue the Guyanan dollar by 56 per cent ( from G$45 to G$101.75 to the US dollar ) led to sharp increases in food , fuel and transport costs . |
| 23 | Whereas computer-tomography devices in medicine use as many as 700 detectors to produce images in 3 seconds , the portable unit 's three sensors need up to 10 hours to make a respectable picture ( though spot checks for cracks and rottenness can be made much faster ) . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 25 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 26 | The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox . |
| 27 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between . |
| 28 | It took him 10 months to find a suitable job |
| 29 | And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan . |
| 30 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |