Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 2 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 3 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 4 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 5 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 6 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 7 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 8 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
| 10 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 11 | Using a rate of discount of 10% per annum ( 0.027% per day ) implies that the expected duration of a job is about 1.3 years if accepted in the first three months of the unemployment spell and three years if accepted later ( see footnote 3 ) . |
| 12 | I have half a mind to defy their demands of space and economy , and to sleep on until awakened by the next pale arrival herself , expectant to abort and puzzled at my slumbering presence . |
| 13 | If getting to the last eight of the Scottish Cup makes it look as if I have taken to management like a duck to water , I would be telling lies if I said the job was easy . |
| 14 | If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid . |
| 15 | Rubella is the most serious maternal infection and can cause severe mental and physical damage if contracted during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy . |
| 16 | Lansdowne and Law could only accede with as good a grace as they could muster ; the party was therefore committed to a full policy of imperial preference , but food taxes would be excluded unless approved by a second general election . |
| 17 | While rejoicing in the first full month of the closed fishing season also look out for the pale new leaves of spring . |
| 18 | She 's done nothing but play for the last two years . |
| 19 | Here McMillan 's draw weight with last stone was perfect but the stone did n't curl as expected over the last few yards . |
| 20 | The portrait of the study of social policy as presented in the last few paragraphs shows that it is a subject that draws upon a number of different academic disciplines . |
| 21 | I recalled that in the New Testament , in the life of Jesus as written in the first four books , there were many psychic happenings . |
| 22 | To do this , the cases are reordered so that the X values are in order , as shown in the first two columns of figure 10.6 . |
| 23 | Such a conference would be in addition to another on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) already convened for December 1990 , as agreed at the last European Council summit in Strasbourg in December 1989 [ see pp. 37131-33 ] . |
| 24 | All fixed assets shall be valued on the same basis as used in the last audited accounts and there shall be no upward revaluation of them or any of them above the value(s) used in the last audited accounts . |
| 25 | Adverse currency movements in Brazil and a worse result in Puerto Rico also contributed to the increased deficit , although the latter showed some improvement in the second quarter when compared to the first three months of the year . |
| 26 | These changes strike at the very base of rugby union football as played for the last 100 years in that a player could play when , where and for whom providing that he paid his subscription before departing from his old club . |
| 27 | Between , there is cricket in India as played by the 16th Light Infantry , there is English cricket , there is W.G. Grace , there is Ruskin Spear 's brooding painting of Fred Trueman , there is Seaton Carew in 1888 and Ryton in 1912 . |
| 28 | A recent analysis of the American market in diamond jewellery has shown that nearly half is given for Christmas as compared with an eighth each to mark birthdays and wedding anniversaries . |
| 29 | Bregawn swept over the third fence from home and made his way into the straight , Pursued by Captain John ( who had lost ground when blundering at the third last ) , Wayward Lad and Silver Buck . |
| 30 | Their only rule of religious , moral and social life was the Law of Moses as found in the first five books of the Old Testament ( called the Pentateuch or the Torah ) . |