Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only modifications to the logic discussed above are that the code for ‘ square occupied ’ is no longer 1 , but is the actual stream number ( 1 for the first stream , 2 for the second and so on ) . |
| 2 | This involves a radical restructuring of the organisation , with devolution into local authority or private management of up to 203 of the 350 or so historic sites now in English Heritage 's care ; the eventual redundancy of nearly 500 staff ( more than one quarter of the total ) ; and the handover of powers to influence decisions on Grade II listed buildings in London , powers inherited in 1986 from the now defunct Greater London Council . |
| 3 | Thus in 1676 an estimated 300 of the 3,000 or so communicants in the industrial parish of Sheffield were said to be Dissenters . |
| 4 | St Mark 's is of particular architectural interest , being a Regency church of 1825 with a spectacular and highly ornate Victorian interior by Blomfield , dating from the 1870s . |
| 5 | This assumption allows Lucas to measure as the deviation of actual real output , from the value predicted from a regression of on a constant and time ( where time might take the value of 1 in the first year of the data period , 2 in the second and so on ) . |
| 6 | Hamilton took a 2 at the first and then stole a single . |
| 7 | She was sitting by the food tray , and had ordered six of the older and more sensible nomes to stand guard around it to keep children away . |
| 8 | Showing no remorse , Parrott compiled a 75-break ; he took the lead for the first time with a more orthodox run of 83 in the next and then forged 4–2 ahead with a superb 70 clearance to black in frame six after trailing 58–0 . |
| 9 | Moscow police have begun to work with Germany 's federal criminal police by providing crucial information on an estimated 3,500 of the biggest and most violent CIS crime syndicates , which are now moving into Germany in their hundreds . |
| 10 | By the early 1980s only a few thousand of the million or so who lived elsewhere in the USSR had been able to return , despite an active campaign on their behalf by dissidents as well as Tatar activists . |
| 11 | ‘ The matched each other until 4–4 in the third and then her returns got a bit shorter and Audra was able to take advantage . ’ |
| 12 | Fewer than ten of the sixty or so pubs occupying old buildings in central York have completely escaped assault by post-war ‘ improvements ’ , and in none of these is the surviving pub interior any older than late Victorian . |
| 13 | It was full of long tables that seated from six and eight to a dozen or more . |
| 14 | Some of these are already apparent following Britain 's entry into the ERM : the stoking up of inflation in the mid-1980s and the creation in the 1990s of a million or so extra unemployed , together with thousands of bankruptcies , can properly be ascribed in the main to priority having been given to a managed exchange rate . |
| 15 | Death in old age is usually due to heart disease ; smoking is one of a dozen or more interacting risk factors that accelerate the age-related decay in the heart and arteries . |
| 16 | The interesting thing about this — in my experience the first ever co-ordinated attempt to find a target — was that despite the assurance of all the enthusiasts to the scheme ( one Plt Off Leonard Cheshire included ) that the run was made with great care , not one of a dozen or more taking part in this quite unofficial experiment claimed to have ever seen one of the other 's flares or Very lights . |
| 17 | It would have meant humiliation , and the end , without much chance of resurrection , of one of the shortest-lived and most disastrous party leaderships in British political history . |
| 18 | The four-year-old Pebbles who travelled to New York was already one of the toughest and most popular fillies of recent years . |
| 19 | Whereas it once had a reputation as being one of the toughest and most feared women 's prisons in Britain , it is now regarded as having gone soft by some of the prison officers . |
| 20 | Maybe next year , we 'll wonder why we ever liked it , but today it 's one of the queerest and most exciting things in pop . |
| 21 | One of the purest and most potent forms of skincare today |
| 22 | A popular health-service argument was that every one of the million or so staff should get exactly the same percentage increase in pay — as though the recruitment and retention position was the same for all . |
| 23 | It was one of the worst-judged and least successful speeches of his life . |
| 24 | So STAY A WHILE and discover the beauty and variety of one of the greenest and most tranquil corners of England . |
| 25 | One of the oddest and most unforseeable side effects of the demolition of the Wall has been an epidemic of rabies among the city 's foxes . |
| 26 | That route I always consider one of the best and most adventurous of my climbing career ; most adventurous because this very serious route ( even by today 's standards — or perhaps especially by today 's standards ) was first attempted on sight . |
| 27 | The building of Winston Grange , containing the first flush lavatory in Suffolk , proved a triumph , for in 1860 the third incumbent , a Reverend Mundiford Allen , became one of the best and most loved vicars in East Anglia , and although he died and was buried here in 1910 , stories of his virtue and kindness are still rife . |
| 28 | For Aurillac is one of the centres for the distribution of the splendid cheese of Cantal , to my mind one of the best and most interesting in France . |
| 29 | Dorothy Eden , one of the best and most successful writers of romantic suspense novels , used in her earlier days to start her whole book from a name she had chosen , or that had perhaps chosen her by striking a note from the wind-harp in her mind — Seraphine , Blandina , Hariot . |
| 30 | His article on heraldry in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica remains one of the best and most erudite introductions to the subject : he also made a shorter contribution to Shakespeare 's England ( 1916 ) . |