Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overall expenditure was contained by minimal increases in other areas and , in defence , by a 2.5 per cent expenditure cut to DM50,800 million [ for June 30 decision to withdraw from the European Fighter Aircraft project see p. 38980 ] . |
| 2 | Some analysts were gloomily looking to the FT-SE 100 index to fall below the 2,200 level if the 15 per cent base rate is maintained for any length of time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Headley Feast with the national classified , one result to change of the local footballs in the Beezer Homes League , southern division , I 'm afraid it was a defeat for Witney ; Witney one , Canterbury two , that 's in the Beezer Homes League southern division ; Witney one , Canterbury two . |
| 5 | Very simply put , you 'd have one amp to deal with the low end and one to deal with the upper mid of your bass signal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Of course , it is possible for more than one disturbance to occur at the same time so that the cyclical variations generated , although inherently damped , may be quite large . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | What take one minute to dry on a hot summer 's day may take 10 outdoors in winter . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Vasarhelyi said he has never refused any offers of work and hoped one day to draw for the Royal Mail . |
| 12 | When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection . |
| 13 | They arrived at the edge of the trees just in time to see Angel One advance to stand over the sprawled figure of Brett Grant . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is one thing to step into the unknown , another to do it without exaggerating the claims for the product , and quite amazing to end our launch year with a turnover that exceeds our most optimistic forecasts by 250% . |
| 16 | It is one thing to look at an ill person and say that they are out of balance . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One step to go before the final great switch on of your tank . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In their infinite wisdom , the SFA had arranged for a Scotland Under 23 side to travel with the senior squad , in the admirable but ultimately naive belief that it would be a learning experience for the young stars of the future . |
| 22 | However at the famous December '69 auction to dispose of the remaining assets , three of the Hunslets were given a new lease of life , virtually on home territory . |