Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's only when you choose the eight fonts to use on a particular worksheet that the impressive range of fonts available becomes apparent |
| 2 | 30 per cent of those invited to an advisory interview after 12 months to start on a Jobplan workshop |
| 3 | ‘ It took us 22 years to get to a billion dollars a quarter in revenues and , thanks to the explosion in demand for the 80486 chip , less than three years to get to two billion dollars a quarter , ’ said president Andrew Grove . |
| 4 | The chicken korma will take six hours to cook in a specially-built giant gas-fired pan at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London . |
| 5 | I travelled extensively throughout the country for six months to prepare for a nationwide extension of the programme , which was funded by the European Community . |
| 6 | Marsh was dismissed with three minutes to go for a late challenge on Dimitr Radchenko , scorer of Spartak 's first goal , in their 2–0 success which made it 6–2 on aggregate . |
| 7 | Ceramic chip packaging specialist and OEM printer and personal computer manufacturer Kyocera Corp says it plans to cut its total workforce to 13,000 by shedding 1,000 jobs over the next three years to cope with a possible rise in the yen to 100 to the dollar ; the cuts will be achieved by reducing annual recruitment of graduates and normal retirement of some 700 a year , the company explained . |
| 8 | She had three years to spend in a beautiful city , reading ; and that was what she was supposed to be doing . |
| 9 | I think it took about three years to get to a normal level . |
| 10 | Foulds hit an early 60 break in the fourth but Doherty 's reply was immediate when he knocked in a 55 clearance to move into a two frame lead at the interval . |
| 11 | Spanish regular officers shamelessly violated the capitulation of Bailén , leaving 10,000 troops to starve on a barren island because they felt under no obligation to obey the rules of war with a ‘ captain of bandits ’ . |
| 12 | They invited twenty-three artists from nine countries to participate in an artistic sub-theme park entitled ‘ Allocations : art for a natural and artificial environment ’ . |
| 13 | One conclusion to emerge from a recent conference at which the Italians and Egyptians met was that the existing Cairo Egyptian Museum should be maintained . |
| 14 | ‘ As you know only too well , ’ he wrote after leaving Broadlands on one occasion to embark on a six-month cruise , ‘ to me it has become a second home in so many ways , and no one could ever have had such a splendid honorary grandpapa in the history of avuncular relationships . ’ |
| 15 | What take one minute to dry on a hot summer 's day may take 10 outdoors in winter . |
| 16 | Night fell , but in spite of that , as Southey wrote to a friend , ‘ We talked philosophy like two poets and often paused one while to drink at a clear spring — another while to encourage poor Rover now quite lame — and sometimes to mark the glowworms paley ray . ’ |
| 17 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 18 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 19 | This difference , together with the obliquity , made it necessary on the one hand to excavate to a considerable depth at the bottom and to add a 30 foot embankment of made ground at the top , involving a vast amount of earth moving that , on the face of it seems hardly to have been necessary . |
| 20 | One way to deal with an oppositional patient is to begin a brief trial of outpatient therapy , if only to convince her that she is unable to alter her behaviour despite her belief to the contrary . |
| 21 | As Cierva visualized , the aircraft sat on the ground whilst the engine drove the rotors at zero pitch to overspeed through a near vertical shaft . |
| 22 | ‘ We do a kit of plans and key parts for £350 , or a kit that needs only 40 hours to get to a bare hull for £1,800 . |
| 23 | Over the past year , the counsellors have helped 51 people to deal with a wide range of problems , including marital breakdown , sexual abuse , bereavement and terminal illness , and almost three times that number have been given information and informal counselling . |
| 24 | Conrad 's first manoeuvre was to send massed cavalry forward on 15 August to reconnoitre on a huge front , some 400km/ 250mls wide . |
| 25 | Their needs alone would have been enough reason — were enough — for a number of us over the next three to four years to stay in a male organization , with largely male resources for mainly male callers and to join with some of those men to change it . |
| 26 | With four sales to cover in a short space of time your correspondent was left with the impression that there is no lack of interest in the subject , that the general standard of cataloguing is high , but prices remain depressed — except that is for anything related to Zeppelins and lighter-than-air aviation . |
| 27 | There two ways to upgrade to a 386 — by adding a coprocessor card and by replacing the motherboard . |
| 28 | It all seems to be about using one or two people to stand for a whole sensibility , but thereby creating the impression that they were somehow alone in the field . |
| 29 | The offender arranged for the two girls to swim at a local swimming pool where he was employed as a cleaner after it had closed . |
| 30 | Highland Regional Council 's policy and resources committee nominated four councillors to serve on a special Highland liaison committee on travellers , in spite of strong objections from some members to the committee considering the new-age phenomenon . |