Example sentences of "[subord] [num] [noun] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basquiat 's work is also getting unprecedented praise , at least in the Whitney catalogue , where six essays compare the one-time graffiti artist who died of a heroin overdose at the age of twenty-seven to Leonardo da Vinci , Goya , Vincent van Gogh , and Jackson Pollock . |
| 2 | Where one party has no commercial autonomy vis-à-vis another , it is treated as part of the same economic grouping and therefore not subject to Article 85 , although if it is in a dominant position Article 86 may apply . |
| 3 | Each year more than 850,000 Britons pay an annual subscription to ensure they get their copy of Which ? magazine . |
| 4 | MORE than 550 people packed the new church of St Peter & St Paul , Wakefield for its official opening . |
| 5 | No fewer than eleven Governors attended the first meeting on 15th March , which resolved to have quarterly accounts , and quarterly reports from the Headmaster . |
| 6 | For more than thirty-seven years held the important situation of teacher to the first public institution in this country for the education of the deaf and dumb ; which was established in this parish , A.D. 1792 … |
| 7 | More than 25000 visitors crammed the 500 plus stands on the first day of the show , in Ghent , to look at new developments in materials science , biotechnology , microelectronics and engineering . |
| 8 | More than 300 demonstrators attacked the Chinese embassy in Dhaka on July 2 after rumours that human skulls had been found in the embassy . |
| 9 | The council accepts there are far more than 30 youngsters needing a proper base in Darlington . |
| 10 | More than 16,500 students sat the Young Enterprise Europe examination . |
| 11 | Males consuming over 36 units of alcohol a week and females consuming more than 22 units have a high level and are advised to cut down immediately . |
| 12 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 13 | There are three main natural regions in Switzerland , the Jura in the north with an average altitude of 750 metres and a swathe of coniferous forest ; the Swiss Plateau which averages 580 metres , holds most of the Swiss population and its cities and extends from Switzerland 's largest lake , Geneva , to Lake Constance in the East ; then there is the Swiss Alps which cover 60% of the country 's land area , have an average altitude of 1,700 metres with more than 100 summits topping the 4,000 metre mark . |
| 14 | Larger lexicons also result in more than 100 words matching the partial information more often . |
| 15 | More than 1,200 delegates attended the 45th annual Assembly of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) in Geneva , Switzerland , on May 4-14 . |
| 16 | In the United Kingdom more than 250,000 patients have an acute myocardial infarction annually . |
| 17 | More than 2,000 delegates attended the 14th World Congress of Accountants held in Washington DC last month . |
| 18 | She doubted she 'd had more than three hours sleep the previous night , and Julie only a little more . |
| 19 | An independent clinical test revealed that two minutes of brushing with a Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover removed more plaque than three minutes using a conventional electric toothbrush , or six minutes with a manual toothbrush . |
| 20 | In just over a decade , their ambitious goal to reach every village in the islands is close to being realised with more than 4,300 workshops covering a wide range of development issues . |
| 21 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 22 | MORE than 80 delegates attended the national conference of superintendent registrars overseers of the births , marriages and deaths records in Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 23 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 24 | I figured I might have rather less than ten seconds to beat the ascending Mamba to the balcony , from there I 'd take the door which leads to the vast western attics and unexplored spaces beyond . |
| 25 | When the return match was fought six weeks later , more than 10,000 spectators watched the same result at Third Lanark football club 's ground . |
| 26 | Henry replied , in an open letter , ‘ It is I ’ , and over the course of no fewer than 63 pages drew a factual , logical and haunting picture of the plight of his beloved Combsburgh , as he perceived it in the winter of 1830/31 . |
| 27 | Others , it says , force you to buy more than one module to achieve the same effect as you get with CustomerQ alone . |
| 28 | It is demonstrable that a suitable number of people cooperating on a task will achieve a better result than one person doing the same task . |
| 29 | It seems that type ( a ) concerns cases where more than one consonant precedes the weak syllable in question , and type ( b ) where there is only one consonant preceding . |
| 30 | Rarely completing a painting on the spot , preferring to take sketches back to ‘ the studio ’ missing and ‘ think ’ the picture through , often combining various elements from more than one sketch to form a completed picture . |