Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred extra helpers were recruited to give eight hours help in the three months before the election , or two Saturday mornings , or four evenings in the final two months . |
| 2 | Less than forty pictures exist by the fifteenth-century Sicilian artist , who was credited by Vasari with bringing the ‘ Flemish ’ technique of oil painting to Italy , and whose placid works were of decisive influence on contemporary Venetian painters , especially Giovanni Bellini . |
| 3 | Usually it 's earlier ; level 2 sailors retire in an orderly fashion to the bar to watch the fun , level 3 sailors catapult off long boards right , left and centre learning where not to put their weight , while level 4 sailors leap onto short boards for serious carve gybe practice — joining our RYA fun-boards courses if they wish . |
| 4 | In this arrangement one or more 11–16 schools feed into the Sixth Form of one 11–18 school . |
| 5 | Mr Hill said : ‘ He had six years experience as a mental nurse but had never seen anybody so violent as the defendant . ’ |
| 6 | Previously he has had nineteen years experience as a Commercial Manager and Senior Purchasing Executive with Anderson Strathclyde in Glasgow . |
| 7 | Six supermodels feature in the new spring/summer Littlewoods home shopping catalogue , and though they all charge up to £10,000 for a single day 's work the clothes they model for Littlewoods are all within easy reach of every woman . |
| 8 | New Contemporary Show ‘ 92 , six newcomers exhibit for the first time ( until 23 Feb ) . |
| 9 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 10 | But it adds : ‘ Six makers lag behind the mediocre majority — Citroen , Daihatsu , Hyundai , Skoda , Yugo and , by far the worst , Reliant with its Rialto . ’ |
| 11 | The following day , on August 1st , the South African Under-15 schoolboys arrive for a four-week tour of England . |
| 12 | The three authors focus on the artistic mode of production , its socio-historic contextualisation , and its patterns of collection respectively . |
| 13 | Whereas a comprehensive secondary school might offer some 30 subjects for all its pupils , and about a dozen subjects account for the great majority of A levels , the curriculum explodes in higher education , part of a post-school explosion even greater when one takes into account the vast number of technical and vocational courses that exist in non-advanced further education . |
| 14 | Three elements refer to the female presence , all of them dealing with an essential lack . |
| 15 | All three writers deal with a haunting problem which humanity faces in coming to terms with its lot . |
| 16 | Around 1400 tankers pass through the northern and southern Fair Isle channels a year , of which 70 per cent are connected to the Sullom Voe terminal . |
| 17 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 18 | On that occasion he was three lengths clear at the last , but his injury allowed Golden Friend , who was receiving 19lb , to overhaul him on the line to win by a head . |
| 19 | The Conservatory Association publishes three brochures free to the general public entitled ‘ Choosing A Conservatory ’ , ‘ Your Conservatory and Condensation ’ and ‘ A Touch of Glass . ’ |
| 20 | Global temperatures will increase as much as three degrees centigrade in the next ten years due to damage to the ozone layer . |
| 21 | In this chapter I shall argue that the no boundary condition for the universe , together with the weak anthropic principle , can explain why all three arrows point in the same direction — and moreover , why a well-defined arrow of time should exist at all . |
| 22 | All three categories gel into a coherent formulation which states that blacks ' achievements in sport are related to factors determined by their race . |
| 23 | The former comprises a straightforward survey of Kelly 's projects , from McLaren/Westwood 's early 1970s Seditionaries shop to the Dry 201 Bar in Manchester of 1989 , intercut with an eclectic series of essays on Kelly 's iconoclastic career . |
| 24 | Brian has over sixteen years experience in the floorcovering industry , including working with a firm of specialist Contract Interior Designers . |
| 25 | The charges carry a minimum sentence of 5 years , heavy fines and 2 to 5 years exile in a remote part of Turkey . |
| 26 | However , the most important point to note is that the B II conformations lead to a poorer correlation with the NMR data in all cases . |
| 27 | Yet it seems hardly less lacking in vitality , and manages to make its commendably brief duration of 86 minutes feel like a great many more as it toils though a youthful crisis of conscience . |
| 28 | Under the helm of Sydney Newman , the weekly productions scored in the top ten ratings chart for a staggering thirty-two out of thirty-seven weeks between Autumn 1959 and Summer 1960 , with audiences averaging upwards of 12 million . |
| 29 | Group I introns reside in a large number of genomes from various sources such as phages T4 and SPO1 ( 47 , 48 , 49 ) , cyanobacteria ( 50 , 51 ) , plastids ( 52 , 53 ) , mitochondria and nuclei ( Tetrahymena ( 54 ) ; Physarum ( 55 ) ) . |
| 30 | 10,000 souls weep for the young . |