Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Fig. 11–11 the median voter is constrained to vote for an output combination along 18 of the budget line 12 because otherwise the local authority would set tax rates that left the poorest citizens with a minimum income level lower than that regarded as acceptable ; i.e. they would set a tax greater than 19 . |
| 2 | Among those aged 85 or more a similar proportion of those with and without living siblings had been admitted to a home at some stage but among those aged 75 — 84 more of those without any such relatives had been admitted : 30 per cent compared with 17 per cent . |
| 3 | Rolf Hüppi , Zurich 's chief executive since 1991 and once the prime mover behind its multinationals business , sees a day of reckoning ahead for Europe 's 4,000-plus insurance companies . |
| 4 | Mr. J. C. Walker was formally elected Treasurer and retained that role until 1929 and similarly the Pro-tem Secretary , Alfred Caldecott , was confirmed in the post , jointly with R. Lindsay . |
| 5 | Viewed together , they showed that by 1920 or so every single female in the United States would have to work as a switchboard operator . |
| 6 | I would obtain three or more the same size and allow them to grow up and pair off naturally . |
| 7 | A trade conflict with Spain — allies of France — arose in 1734 and soon the old animosity between France and England came to the surface . |
| 8 | So for example , in the specialist air defence er side we 're looking at alternatives would be the F twenty two erm the current tornado F three and also an upgraded variant of the F three . |
| 9 | He missed only two fixtures in 1990–91 and obviously a grand future lies ahead of him . |
| 10 | So had the great survey of landownership in Russia which Catherine set in motion in 1765 and even the Legislative Commission of two years later . |
| 11 | Because of the raging personal computer price war , the European market started to expand strongly in 1992 and now the Japanese market , despite its general economic sluggishness , is also expanding . |
| 12 | It is true that the Whigs did their best to exploit the Jacobite " bogey " , and their demands for an oath requiring peers , MPs and office-holders to abjure allegiance to James II and then the Old Pretender caused some embarrassment to those Tories who had only been prepared to recognise William as de facto King . |
| 13 | Thank you bowlers , six for twenty-five and then a slight contrast , one for a hundred and fifty , but he bowled a great many overs , that 's er , he 's proving a very useful addition to the the England side and he 's being used erm very sensibly by Gooch . |
| 14 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 15 | And then , erm it was at a much later stage , in the nineteen twenties or perhaps a little bit earlier than that they actually first managed to get enough of it to liquify . |
| 16 | The employer can not recover the secondary class 1 nor indeed the primary class 1 contributions from the employee . |
| 17 | The coffee pot , jug and pepper pot were among items stolen in a burglary of a house in Aiskew , Bedale , between 1.30pm on March 8 and 1.30am the following day . |
| 18 | The opponents have a confident sounding auction to a six diamond contract , during which South showed at least a five and probably a six card diamond suit . |
| 19 | As the dusk came down the bats came out and the song of birds ceased one by one until only a lone blackbird spoke occasionally from the shadows . |
| 20 | To swim a distance of 3.1 kilometres in five hours , with a solid roof and no air space above you , visibility often zero and only a thin nylon line to follow , must be most people 's idea of the worst dive in the world … |
| 21 | Torrance was the winner at nearby Penina in 1982 and again the following year at Troia near Lisbon , and showed his liking for Portuguese courses by finishing fourth here at Vila Sol on the Algarve last year . |
| 22 | Vantage have used a sealed back on the VG-15 and so the reverse side is featureless , save for the mains cable which trails from its lower edge . |
| 23 | Erm , I 'll probably have er two or perhaps a three seater sofa and for the rest fire side chairs . |
| 24 | If the motor is operating at a stepping rate f then the excitation cycle repeats at a frequency 1/4 and therefore the angular frequency of the excitation cycle is : During each excitation cycle the rotor moves one tooth pitch ( =2/p ) in a time 2/w , so the average rotor velocity is given by : Integrating this equation with respect to time : where 6 is a constant of integration known as the load angle . |
| 25 | I it 's she will type it in as two , and then you will give her the next draft and then two and then the next draft and then two , I mean there 's no confusion there for her . |
| 26 | In this state the polymer exhibits several unique properties which are dealt with in chapter 14 and only a brief description of the chain behaviour in this region is given here . |
| 27 | Certainly not from the club scene , where an average gate is rarely more than a few hundred and even a big club like Hawick has had to launch a special initiative to arrest their declining membership . |
| 28 | F five , now all of these you 've got to increase e something by something there so you 've got to change each of those percentages you 've got to think of it as added to a hundred and then the decimal equivalent . |
| 29 | An ivory ban was supported by the EEC , the USA , Japan and Hong Kong midway through 1989 and now the African elephant has been placed on the CITES Appendix 1 list . |
| 30 | In 1987 , the Gunners won the League Cup , followed by the Championship in 1989 and then a second title in 1991 . |