Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , in 1976 the PLP set up a committee of eight backbenchers to study how consultation with the Labour Government could be improved . |
| 2 | This square is very large and was originally faced with 70 offices carrying on trade with the whole ancient world . |
| 3 | Division Broadcast of Leicester has spent 10 years building up goodwill for its Digivision range of colour and monochrome display monitors for computers . |
| 4 | Then a short blast and six monitors took up position at the top of the lower playground . |
| 5 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has signed up Reading , Berkshire-based Computer 100 Ltd as a value-added reseller : Computer 100 will supply Siemens Nixdorf 's Beetle electronic point-of-sale terminals and personal computers bundled with its bespoke ‘ news management ’ software applications for confectioners , tobacconists and newsagents ; the software deals with everything from the automation of newspaper and magazine orders to customer billing and the management of newspaper rounds ; the agreement is part of Siemens Nixdorf 's current strategy of targeting niche markets , and Computer 100 claims to have over 80% of the total installed newsagents market in Europe . |
| 6 | Brett and Masala flanked the back door and the other three bodyguards took up positions on the other side of the car , facing the photographers . |
| 7 | The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society which directed more than 200,000 homebuyers to take out cover with MMI , has spent the day transferring policies to General Accident.They say premiums will be unchanged |
| 8 | ‘ The Queen ! ’ said the second gardener suddenly , and at once , the three gardeners lay down flat on their faces . |
| 9 | MORE than one in three adults fill out coupons in the most popular form of gambling . |
| 10 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 11 | Aside from Boyce and Lee , these include Edward Howard , a CIA employee who finally defected to Moscow taking with him a hoard of secret information about his work ; the Walker trio who for 17 years handed over details of US Navy cryptograhic equipment to the Russians in exchange for $750,000 ; Bruce Ott , a USAF airman who tried to sell the Russians a copy of the SR-71 spy plane operating manual ; Robert Miller , an FBI agent who passed on secret documents to the Russians ; Ronald Pelton , a communications expert with the NSA who for five years gave the Russians details of his work ; Clyde Conrad , a retired US Army sergeant who for five years is alleged to have handed over top army contingency plans to the East ; and Jonathan Pollard , a US Navy counter-intelligence analyst who was paid $50,000 by Israeli intelligence for top naval information , a particularly embarrassing incident . |
| 12 | It was because of events like that at Castlemorton Common near Malvern in May , when around 20,000 travellers set up camp for an illegal Bank Holiday festival , that the Government announced tough new measures to deal with illegal encampments . |
| 13 | Also on April 27 measures laying down sanctions against speculation and the circumvention of price controls were announced . |
| 14 | Kinmont 's first European show is a combination of objects and performance , with inscribed plaster pieces in the gallery itself , and five students handing out leaflets throughout Cologne . |
| 15 | In its first year , more than 180,000 students took out loans worth some £70 million . |
| 16 | This year he put in a strenuous two hours raising over £65 towards the branch 's record Lifeboat Week total of £4,825 . |
| 17 | Why forgive me , one of the promises here is we promise to make it county wide twenty four hours call out service for attending emergency highway works , and that 's a promise |
| 18 | For Marlene , her team and 40,000 Runrig fans , these four words bring back memories of a fantastic outdoor concert on the water 's edge . |
| 19 | These may be a mere sale agreement or may include other ancillary agreements such as service contracts , licensing agreements , supply agreements etc. ( 2 ) Consider whether there are two parties carrying on business in the United Kingdom in the supply or production of goods or in the supply of services . |
| 20 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 21 | ONE of Miami 's most racially charged trials in recent years was nearing a climax yesterday , as the jury deliberated on the fate of a Hispanic policeman whose killing of two blacks sparked off rioting in January . |
| 22 | The Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society which directed more than 200.000 homebuyers to take out cover with MMI , has spendt the day transferring policies to General Accident . |
| 23 | ‘ The amateurs in the two teams went out grouse-shooting during the morning ’ , disclosed one account of Surrey against Derbyshire at Glossop in 1902 . |
| 24 | Madness , who attracted 65,000 fans to the two concerts netted over £100,000 in merchandising sales and now plan a full-scale British tour . |
| 25 | Four regions cover over 98% of the UK population so from these it 's easy to select the right coverage package . |
| 26 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |
| 27 | He ordered McAllister to stop giving her chloroform and the two girls worked busily side by side . |
| 28 | One of these two departments spends almost 80% of its information budget on consultants who provide these types of research service . |
| 29 | It had rained for a fortnight when he , his wife and two children took up residence in the 12 room Ben Alder Lodge . |
| 30 | The broadcasters were able to enliven their reports by incorporating actuality clips from the Chamber in about one-third of their parliamentary news stories , and these clips averaged between 25 and 77 seconds in duration , depending on the programme , which usually comprised about a quarter of the story ( exceptionally , BBC2 's Newsnight had longer stories , averaging eight minutes , and its average actuality length of 49.5 seconds comprised only 10% of these items ) . |