Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Manhattan District Court Judge Milton Pollack announced on March 9 that a single " global " settlement had been reached to the hundreds of civil litigation suits which had arisen from the 1990 collapse of the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment bank [ see pp. 37412-13 ; 37848 ] . |
2 | In 10 of 12 surveillance studies it is possible to calculate the number of colonoscopies performed and the number of early cancers detected by them . |
3 | The accuracy of non-invasive radionuclide angiography in detecting portal vein occlusion was assessed in 61 patients — 10 with portal vein occlusion confirmed by conventional portography , 25 with chronic liver disease and a patent portal vein ( mild=12 , severe=13 ) , and 26 with normal liver function who served as controls . |
4 | So , for example , if we have 10 on 11 body text we might have 11 on 11 sub-headings and 20 on 22 major headings . |
5 | Erm within the six to ten mile band there are just two er fairly small er areas er which I believe are both less than ten acres in extent . |
6 | Em , but that 's the reason is that there 's , there 's a shortfall of the government funding of one point eight five six on that rollover funding which we think it would be unfair to ask this committee to find out of you know cuts in other areas within our , within our budget and that 's the reason for the recommendation . |
7 | ‘ In 10 to 15 years time we could have thousands of people suicidally depressed because they took Ecstasy earlier in life . |
8 | The latest UN peace plan followed proposals unveiled on May 10 by ex-king Zahir Shah which called for the establishment of a national committee including mujaheddin leaders , free elections and a parliamentary system . |
9 | The Ministry of the Interior , too anxious about the security implications of labour unrest to leave matters alone , experimented from 1901–03 with police-run labour organizations which it was hoped would divert working-class energy from political towards economic and cultural aims . |
10 | The number of police-officers in England and Wales grew from nearly 76,000 in 1961 to nearly 110,00 in 1976 , and nearly 122,000 in 1986. police strength his not , however , kept pace with the increase in recorded crime . |
11 | Moreover , it remains a cause for considerable concern that the number of youngsters in the sixteen to nineteen age range who attend day release courses in Wales has been proportionally one of the lowest in England and Wales . |
12 | His remarks coincided with an announcement in Tokyo that the president and all senior management of Showa Shell Sekiyu had resigned after the losses estimated at to $1.3 billion from foreign exchange deals which went wrong . |
13 | Whatever resources were devoted to the transformation approach , the bulk of agricultural production continued to come from the millions of small farming families who were adjusting their forms of production only slowly . |
14 | Yeast is made up of millions of tiny fungus cells which literally go berserk when confronted by a liquid rich with sugars . |
15 | Apart from moisture vapour , the air also contains millions of tiny plant spores which float around looking for somewhere to live and multiply . |
16 | It is one of four Magnox stations which have suffered problems with the pressure vessels . |
17 | The 21-year-old Scottish Under-21 international , who was linked with Rangers during the summer , is one of 10 Forest players whose current contracts run out at the end of the season . |
18 | He is one of 3,000 latino workers who have moved into Aspen 's Roaring Fork Valley , replacing anglo ‘ ski bums ’ as caretakers of the rich . |
19 | Sailor Malan was one of many South Africans who served with great distinction in either the RFC or the RAF — including such names as Andrew Proctor VC , ‘ Boetie ’ Venter and S M Kinkead from World War I and ‘ Pat ’ Pattle , John Nettleton VC and Edwin Swaley VC from World War II . |
20 | She was one of two Stewart monarchs who had this experience , the other being James I ( 1406–37 ) , who was an English prisoner for the first eighteen years of his reign . |
21 | The review was undertaken by one of two research fellows who attempted to be as objective as possible . |
22 | All week the phoney war has raged as the populations of San Francisco and Oakland have , under licence of sport , declared their allegiance to one of two baseball teams who tonight march out on to a field to contest the title of world champions . |
23 | Jeff is one of several NorthEast whistlers who are currently in the Conference Dave Oliver , Terry Heilbron , Jim Betts and Roy Pearson are also striving to progress . |
24 | He is one of several Newcastle players who have been told by manager Kevin Keegan they can go . |
25 | He was one of three England players who complained to the umpires about being pelted by objects . |
26 | She is one of three Guinness people who are setting off on the Raleigh scheme next year — the other two work at Guinness Ireland and at head office in Portman Square . |
27 | Lansing was one of three women producers who bid for the rights . |
28 | The family clung on , and Olive 's father Llewellyn , was one of three Saunderson brothers who cut a dash in nineteenth-century Dublin society as officers in the Eleventh Hussars . |
29 | She became one of those women reporters whose listening ear and less judgemental approach to people in trouble helped to make the distillation of news the more respected practice it is today . |
30 | It 's like one of those cube patterns which pops inside out , from convex to concave , in front of your eyes . |