Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 2 | Caroline was leading after dressage with a score of 41.60 and only incurred 6.40 penalties for time on cross country to take the lead with 48.00 just one point ahead of Marco Biasia from Italy on 49 . |
| 3 | Imagine an economy in which firms , for whatever reason , agree to fix prices at the end of period t to cover period t + 1 and t + 2 and not to alter these prices in either period t + 1 or t + 2 if circumstances differ from those expected at the close of period t . |
| 4 | Despite a lower turnout than in 1989 , the party increased its vote in the city overall from 5,000 to 5,200 and now has five councillors — an increase of one . |
| 5 | This refreshing wine is made by Piat Père et Fils who has been established since 1849 and also produces outstanding Beaujolais and Burgundy wines . |
| 6 | The election of Cardinal Wojtyla of Krakow as Pope John Paul II in 1978 and his visits to Poland in 1979 and subsequently emphasised these attachments and strengthened the historic association between the Catholic faith and Polish nationhood . |
| 7 | The world champion compiled breaks of 101 , 74 , 61 and 45 and now faces Irish champion Joe Swail in the quarter-finals . |
| 8 | ( iii ) It is important that pupils working towards level 7 and beyond have increasing opportunities to use spoken Standard English , and in particular that those who do not speak it as a native dialect should be helped to extend their language competence so that they can use Standard English with confidence . |
| 9 | They started training in 1986 and initially spent 36 weeks on block-release at college learning basic engineering skills , fabrication , machining , fitting and basic electrical work . |
| 10 | A big move was also made by Fred Couples , America 's leading money-winner this season , when he went out in 32 and then made further birdies at the 10th and 13th . |
| 11 | ( This man became a deacon on 17 December 1289 and a priest on 27 May 1290 and still held that rectory in 1294 . ) |
| 12 | For his part , the DGM began by spending a day a week at Banstead from April 1980 and subsequently took six weeks off from running the affairs of district administration , handing over to his deputy in order to work full time on the strategy for closure . |
| 13 | 6% of households headed by a person aged 75 and over lacked basic amenities ( compared to under 2% for younger groups ) . |
| 14 | It will release a dozen or so films this year with an average cost of $5m , all aimed at audiences too small for the big studios to chase . |
| 15 | The dozen or so rounds included music , sport , history , geography , art and literature but Crawley waited for the film , TV and theatre questions before playing their joker . |
| 16 | Eagle Star ( 0242 221311 ) has introduced a no claim discount of up to 20% for policyholders with three or more claim free years . |
| 17 | The French studies which contain the most sophisticated breakdown of housework hours , according to a number of variables , suggest that , on average , one child adds twenty-three hours to housework time , two children add thirty-five hours , and three or more add forty-one hours . |
| 18 | CITES was set up in 1975 and now has 102 signatories including the European member states and the USA . |
| 19 | The Derry man took the job as Mr Hume 's top aide in 1984 and then spent two years in Washington , working for Senator Edward Kennedy on foreign affairs issues . |
| 20 | To complete the picture of railways in this area one should add that the quite successful Leominster & Kington Railway was opened in 1862 and eventually had various extensions and branches , some of which were already under discussion when Kington was reached . |
| 21 | John Campbell , food analyst at County NatWest WoodMac , suggests that sucralose 's contribution will reach £14 million by the mid-1990s and perhaps double that figure by 1998 . |
| 22 | They secured eight but also lost three wickets including two run outs , one of them off the last ball . |
| 23 | These tourists ordered not only busts of themselves but replicas and versions of the artist 's fourteen or so separate ideal works including : ‘ Eve Tempted ’ ( 1839–42 ) ; the ‘ Greek Slave ’ ( 1841–1843 ) ; ‘ Proserpine ’ ( 1843 ; 1844–49 ) ; ‘ America ’ ( 1848–9 ) and ‘ California ’ ( 1850 ) . |
| 24 | Actual local authority completions in North Tyneside between 1974 and 1986 totalled 5473 , of which all but 639 were completed before 1981 and thus reflect pre-1979 capital programmes . |
| 25 | Porter refers to his basic value-chain analysis , which was briefly described in chapter 4 and now needs closer examination . |
| 26 | Brannen was 11 and about to start senior school at Eaglescliffe Comprehensive when Thompson dragged his curious ten-event discipline from obscurity and stamped it , and himself , on the national consciousness . |
| 27 | Bald started work in 1809 and soon secured other appointments in Mayo , first as one of the engineers employed by the government to survey the bogs of Ireland and later as a road engineer . |
| 28 | The absence of Arundel and Huntingdon is especially interesting since both were only in their mid-thirties and neither showed any signs of infirmity in their subsequent military careers . |
| 29 | Ruth , who qualified with Deloittes in 1977 and also spent three years as a journalist with Accountants Weekly , has been with the Institute for over 10 years . |
| 30 | On the other hand , for all his ferocity in matters of principle , the archbishop was an aged and a sick man who had suffered too many humiliations and had offended too many of his fellow prelates in the 1290s and since to command strong support from them ; he was still unsure of papal backing for his measures , and indeed found them countermanded by Clement . |