Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | U K market tried on several occasions to break through and remain above the two thousand level today , but confidence remains low and the Footsie one hundred index was unable to find support . |
| 2 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 3 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 4 | They were aged 75 years and were seen and treated within the first 4 hours of the onset of symptoms . |
| 5 | Grades 2 and 3 indicate patency of the infarct related vessel and were found mostly in these 50 patients seen and treated within the first 4 hours after the onset of symptoms who received the 100 mg rt-PA . |
| 6 | Discovered and excavated in the last sixty years , they have often been described . |
| 7 | It is in this area that our communications facilities will require to be strengthened and developed within the next five years . |
| 8 | This model has been developed and validated over the past four years by a research team at Loughborough University through extensive experimentation . |
| 9 | But unless quality and productivity can be improved in leaps and bounds by the early 1990s , then Dagenham is unlikely to have a future as a car production plant . |
| 10 | But within a few weeks of William 's appointment she had applied to three different London boroughs for a job — any job — in social work , taken the first one she 'd been offered , fixed up the flat , put the cottage on the market , found a school for Edwin , and fled from the last five years of her life with almost indecent haste . |
| 11 | Developed through having had this magazine of my own since the age of six , and listening to the Top 30 every Tuesday only to run off instantly to the typewriter in order to compile my own personal Top 30 which totally conflicted with how the world really was . |
| 12 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 13 | Operating as a striker for Penn State , he scored a record 14 goal in the Big Ten League , was named Big Ten ‘ Freshman of the Year ’ and named in the Big Ten All Star XI by the ‘ Soccer America ’ magazine . |
| 14 | IT is a great privilege and pleasure for me to honour my old friend and colleague John Gillam , with whom I have worked and argued over the last thirty years . |
| 15 | Stepping back and looking at the other two nuns , the Mother Superior said , ‘ Take her to her cell . ’ |
| 16 | The original Superspec was designed and built in the late 80s in a joint venture between Wimpey Homes , Wimpey Environmental and the Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit ( BRECSU ) to look at ways of reducing the amount of energy needed to run a home . |
| 17 | the date when the total quantity of petroleum won and saved from the original 8.62608 per cent interest in the Ninian field attributable to the Group reaches 120 million barrels ; or |
| 18 | After playing no competitive chess for 20 years , Fischer 's comeback in beating Spassky — still an active player and rated in the top 100 players in the world — by 10 games to 5 with 15 draws is a remarkable achievement that would ( if it was rated ) earn him a place in the world 's top ten players . |
| 19 | A great deal has been said and written over the past two years about East European grandees being given back their property , but reality lags behind the talk . |
| 20 | Andrew Gallagher on the right wing , beat two tackles and scored in the first five minutes of the game , following a neat Jeremy Hastings pick-up . |
| 21 | Tandem and Chorus , which have not started the design work , will begin with the current Chorus Mix V.4 Release 1.2 and upgrade to the anticipated 2.0 in January when it 's due . |
| 22 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 23 | If you , if you look at the figures er for that male age fifty , and add on the twenty three , that 's seventy three . |
| 24 | It was not that Jarvis was asking much rent , in fact no estate agent would have believed what he was asking , but the whole point of letting bits of the school was to get enough for him to live on , indeed to get to Cairo and ride on the new 42.5 kilometre , 33-station ENR . |
| 25 | This part of the country is extraordinarily rich in small sects that grew up and flourished in the last two or three centuries . |
| 26 | The sample breaks down into three clear sub-groups , and adding in the other fourteen boys would not change this picture . |
| 27 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 28 | The power of the computer was indeed appreciated and used in the late 1960s to make a model of the world system . |
| 29 | The crowd and television fans will be thirsting for Eubank to be more positive than against Tony Thornton two months ago , when he simply shouldered arms and retreated during the last two rounds before nicking the points decision . |
| 30 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |