Example sentences of "and [verb] [prep] the [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Like the earlier pact which was due to due to expire in 1991 [ see pp. 36636 ; 34522-23 ] , the new agreement did not provide for a price support structure common to other commodity arrangements and favoured by the two largest jute producers , Bangladesh and India . |
| 3 | Work has been overseen and undertaken by the three Florentine Soprintendenze , the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the Pegasus consortium . |
| 4 | In September 1962 Sylvia Plath separated from her husband and moved with the two small children to a flat in London . |
| 5 | She shut her eyes and concentrated on the four last things listed by the catechism : death , judgment , heaven and hell . |
| 6 | A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others . |
| 7 | Consequently , federalists were shocked and disheartened by the 1945 British general election , which removed Churchill and his Conservatives from power . |
| 8 | This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote . |
| 9 | The Text Encoding Initiative ( TEI ) is a project sponsored and organized by the three leading professional associations in the field of computer-assisted literary and linguistic research : the Association for Computational Linguistics ( ACL ) , the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing ( ALLC ) and the Association for Computing and the Humanities ( ACH ) . |
| 10 | If you , if you look at the figures er for that male age fifty , and add on the twenty three , that 's seventy three . |
| 11 | The Roman Catholic Catechism drawn up by Dr. James Butler and approved by the 4 Roman Catholic Archbishops of Ireland gives this definition on page 32 — ‘ Purgatory — a place of cleansing . ’ |
| 12 | And look at the twenty year-old Blues Saraceno featured in this very issue ; I 've seen him play and he 's tremendous . |
| 13 | Four days later , on 19 May , he held his first press conference since June 1955 and elaborated on the two main points of his earlier statement : first , he stressed his personal legitimacy based on his exploits between 1940 and 1946 ; second , he declared his readiness to be " useful again to France " . |
| 14 | I gagged and glanced at the two bald-pated twins : they did n't seem so terrible now but rather pathetic . |
| 15 | in line with the Toyne Report , every Further and Higher Education institution , after consultation with its staff and students , should formally adopt and publicise by the 1994/5 academic year , a comprehensive environmental policy , together with an action plan for implementation ; |
| 16 | The loco , on loan from the S.V.R. , operated on its own and piloted by the two class 14s in turn , giving visitors plenty of choice , particularly when 11 departures per day were on offer with trains running every 45 minutes . |
| 17 | These changes were to lead eventually to competition and dissent between the two main providers , particularly in the Eastern District as it was a predominantly rural area . |
| 18 | The second significant thing in the comments is the absence of any desire to follow Hamilton 's advice and revert to the nineteen thirty three act . |
| 19 | She opened her hand and looked at the two silver coins . |
| 20 | Massingham walked over to Berowne 's jacket hanging on a hook at the back of the door and felt in the two outer and one inner pockets . |
| 21 | The Major would call at Dollingston School and ask for the two biggest boys in class . |
| 22 | CREB and ATF1 are the only proteins detected in the immunoprecipitate ( lane 6 ) and comigrate with the two major polypeptides detected in crude extracts . |
| 23 | It also imports and exports to the three main dialects of the . |
| 24 | It takes a week to check each bird on the river and judging by the six hundred year old tradition of toasting each swan , it must be thirsty work . |
| 25 | Supported by WACC , the seminar will examine how the concept of the right to communicate is understood and practised in the four Chinese societies of China , Hong Kong , Singapore and Taiwan . |
| 26 | Teague helped form what must have been the quietest back row in the history of the game when he joined up Dean Richards and Winterbottom in the 1991 Grand Slam side . |
| 27 | erm sequences such as what happened yesterday , what happened today , what 's going to happen tomorrow — dyslexic people very often have great difficulty with this and transferring from the two dimensional to the three dimensional , like you might say to a dyslexic adult when he or she asks directions , ‘ Oh , well , it 's first right , second left and then there 's a tower on your right and you 've got to turn to the left after the tree ’ and so on , and a dyslexic person ca n't remember any of that at all , or transfer it from the map to the reality . |
| 28 | He says he had no idea that Surrey had received two warnings in 1990 and 1991 until the summons arrived from the TCCB citing a third instance , against Leicestershire last month , and referring to the two previous offences . |
| 29 | Children 's grasp of these knotty subjects is monitored and tested through the four Key Stages ( aged 5-7 , 8-11 , 12-14 and 15-16 ) of their educational career . |
| 30 | They are normally sown ‘ on the ridge ’ as soon as the ground is ready in early May , and hoed and singled at the two-to three-leaf stage whilst it is still easy to separate the entwined stems which grow from the multiple seeds . |