Example sentences of "[num] and [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | 4 You can learn more about the vauDe range by ringing 0434 320744 and asking for a catalogue . |
2 | ‘ I was about 12 and going to the school up the road — Clint Boon was in the year above me — and one morning there was this big commotion in the classroom . |
3 | The ORF , starting at nucleotide 289 and ending with an UAG stop codon at position 2119 , contains the POU domain . |
4 | I was twenty-seven and working in a food and book collective . |
5 | Fukase 's series RAVENS preoccupied him for ten years , beginning with a chance photograph of a flock of crows on his native Hokkaido in 1975 and culminating in the publication of 62 photographs in 1986 . |
6 | Boats carrying troops and equipment began leaving Toulon on Sept. 21 and arriving at the Red Sea port of Yanbu in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 29 , while from Sept. 23 the aircraft carrier Clémenceau also began unloading some 500 troops and 42 helicopters in Yanbu , returning afterwards to France . |
7 | The English expectation of life , in the 1880s , was only 43.7 years — by 1940 this had become 60.2 and increasing with the advancement in medical care — and between 1870 and 1900 , the British Empire was increased territorially by a half and its population by a third . |
8 | The coding region is arranged in triplets , starting with an ATG codon at nucleotide 86 and terminating with a stop codon at nucleotide 710 . |
9 | There was a daily requisition to carry troops to the Rossall rifle ranges , leaving between 8–30 and 9–30 and returning at the end of the afternoon . |
10 | ‘ I was living in Gambler Terrace , Liverpool 8 and signing on the dole . |
11 | The Dolphin was commanded by Captain Samuel Wallis , who also had the Prince Frederick and the Swallow ( Captain Carteret ) under his orders , and she sailed round the world by way of the Straits of Magellan , Tahiti , Java , the Cape of Good Hope , and St Helena , leaving Plymouth on 19 August 1766 and anchoring in the Downs on 20 May 1768 , paying off in June . |
12 | After winning the Yorkshire Amateur Championship in 1973 and playing in the Walker Cup it was uphill all the way topped off with Ryder Cup success during the Eighties . |
13 | They took to each new form of transport enthusiastically , motoring across Europe and the States in the twenties and taking to the air in the thirties . |
14 | The idea for Mo' Money came from an experience Damon had when he was in his early twenties and working in the postroom at a credit card company . |
15 | Give him a pen , a pint and a puzzle and he 's happy LUNCH for Bill Pilkington usually comprises a pint and The Times crossword lingering over one and whizzing through the other . |
16 | He enjoys creeping past the back gardens of his neighbours , spotting the gleaming milk pails in one and listening to the notes of a bass viol coming from another . |
17 | The victory laid to rest any doubt that may have emerged about the VP 's continued authority following a weaker showing in local council elections earlier in August ( when the VP held only two of four municipalities , losing one and tying with the opposition in the fourth ) . |
18 | When you 're 15 and working in an office for the first time it is a new world and a big challenge — especially when all your colleagues are speaking a foreign language . |
19 | The results are consistent with protonation of 3-deazaadenine occurring , probably at N -1 and interfering with the Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding . |
20 | Paula , aged twenty-three in 1945 and working for the Worcester Brass Company in Birmingham , had no hesitation in sticking up for herself : The report adds : ‘ Paula is living a very bright life with plenty of entertainment and dancing , but she knows how many beans make five ! , |
21 | ‘ I remember crying for about half an hour , ’ says Matthew , now 20 and working as a bank teller in Kew . |
22 | The third and by far the most important is the trio of Green Papers ( Cm 570 , 571 and 572 ) issued by The Lord Chancellor in January 1989 followed by a White Paper ( Cm 740 ) in June 1990 and culminating in the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |