Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visitors to Westminster Hall are amazed at Warren Hastings ' ability to survive a case which lasted seven years . |
| 2 | He was also to experience some awful moments and he was badly wounded in one battle by a splinter from a shell which killed two men immediately behind him . |
| 3 | All categories will compete in the same field over a course which includes two water splashes . |
| 4 | The selectors have only left one rink intact from last year — Billy Montgomery ( Falls ) , Cecil Worthington ( Knock ) , David Gardiner ( Belmont ) and Seamus Elliman ( Falls ) — a rink which had three wins last season . |
| 5 | It is condoning promotion of a drug which kills 110,000 people a year … it is , quite simply , unethical . ’ |
| 6 | In the interest of the student and the employee , this situation call easily be remedied at the outset by offering all new trainees a contract which extends six months beyond the due date of completion of training . |
| 7 | ‘ I have a contract which has 18 months to go , and as far as I 'm concerned , I 'll be seeing out those 18 months . |
| 8 | In fact , I arrived at a look I liked fifteen years ago and I have hardly changed it since then . |
| 9 | Ask any manager what it would be like if they lost a striker who scores 20-25 goals a season . |
| 10 | A MIDWIFE who delivered 42 babies and was present at other births was found to be HIV positive , a health chief confirmed yesterday . |
| 11 | A PENSIONER who kept 84 dogs in her house told a court yesterday she had no reason to live if her ‘ bairns ’ were taken away . |
| 12 | A pensioner who pulled two people from a burning car has received an award for heroism . |
| 13 | ‘ If you want to create a certain density with a guitar you record one instrument with three mics and you get this wonderfull stereo spread . |
| 14 | " Into a saucepan you pour 2 decilitres ( approximately 7 fluid oz. ) of white wine , you add a large clove of garlic , chopped , and you boil the wine until it is reduced by half and the garlic is cooked . |
| 15 | An American , Heilman , suggested that to use a dictionary you need five subskills : |
| 16 | Mr. D. B. Cassie , the Head of Chemistry , left after 27 years in the School , having started with a department which comprised one laboratory and half a lecture room ( shared with Physics ) . |
| 17 | In a side which included three players under 20 , it was 19-year-old David Hagan who stole the points and the glory , with a brilliant goal in a match which saw Hibs offer little resistance . |
| 18 | Freda Gray was a pioneer who spent 40 years teaching and working with mentally handicapped young people , many of whom had been abandoned by society . |
| 19 | Not only that , but they struck up a partnership which produced thirty championship races in six seasons . |
| 20 | He has his sleuth say once that to commit a murder you need four aces . |
| 21 | A motorcyclist who served six weeks in jail for killing a policeman will know tomorrow if he 'll have to go back to prison . |
| 22 | Colling was standing behind the door with a coal shovel and hit the officer on the head , causing a cut which needed two stitches . |
| 23 | The UFF warned retaliatory action , similar to a shooting which left five Catholics dead in an attack on a Belfast betting shop last February , would begin at midnight last night . |
| 24 | ‘ There was a lady who called two weeks ago crying because her tortoise had died . |
| 25 | Then , a youngster who stole three cars would go to a young offenders institution for one and a half years . |
| 26 | One expects a child who mastered four notes in his first week to master four more in the second ; a child who has achieved doggy-paddle with both feet off the bottom to progress logically to breaststroke . |
| 27 | ‘ One produces a child who dies four days later due to negligent forceps delivery . |
| 28 | The other woman produces a child who dies four days later because of the negligence of the paediatrician who attended the child on day one of its life . |
| 29 | As a child I overheard two women talking . |
| 30 | POLICE were last night hunting a ‘ maniac ’ driver who is said to have caused a crash which killed five people , including two young children . |