Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill Clinton 's vow to make foreign businesses pay ‘ their fair share ’ of US taxes , set against the backdrop of the need to raise $300bn of extra revenue between 1993 and 1996 to fund his domestic growth programmes , could mean substantial new tax burdens on British businesses investing in the US . |
| 2 | At the moment people are n't coming in till 1.30 and that makes it harder for the DJ to get an atmosphere going . |
| 3 | All abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s recognised their organisational weakness and the barrier to influence created by the widespread assumption that the main task of British abolitionism was completed . |
| 4 | Think of them in groups of threes and that gives you four dotted ? |
| 5 | However 384 , 387 and 397 failed their annual inspections on 12 October 1951 and on 9 January 1952 , the remainder were withdrawn and moved to Penhall Road scrap yard to meet their fate . |
| 6 | The contracts which western utilities signed in the 1970s and 1980s to reprocess their nuclear waste have taken on a life of their own . |
| 7 | The result of this examination indicates that it would be possible for Depts I and II to decrease their respective production by approximately 3.3 per cent , and providing Dept . |
| 8 | Tables I and II show their clinical characteristics . |
| 9 | Tables I and II summarise their main characteristics . |
| 10 | You could do that much , do the three times three times five and that gives you forty five but we 're looking for ninety . |
| 11 | ‘ We get sick of hearing the excuse ‘ I did n't stand a chance ’ , I always think the kid definitely did n't have one and that makes me angry . |
| 12 | He formed a lifelong friendship with Henry Edward Fox , fourth Baron Holland , whom he met in Genoa in 1827 : Fox 's journal for 1827 and 1828 records their crowded social sojourn in Rome . |
| 13 | By contrast , the provisions of the Bills of Sale Acts 1878 and 1882 make it impracticable for partners to create an effective floating charge . |
| 14 | Or seven groups of four and two doing something different ? |
| 15 | Breaks of 106 , 68 and 55 put him 4–0 ahead before Murphy managed to claim his first frame . |
| 16 | It is interesting to note that some phonologists of the 1950s and 1960s felt it necessary to invent a ‘ phoneme ’ of juncture in order to be able to transcribe minimal pairs like ‘ grey tape ’ / ‘ great ape ’ unambiguously without having to refer to grammatical boundaries ; see for example Trager and Smith ( 1951 ) . |