Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Trust is fortunate that its regional structure was conceived and laid down in the 1971 Act of Parliament . |
| 2 | The collection begins in 1901 with Picasso 's ‘ Woman in Blue ’ and peters out in the 1960s , although there are some exceptions , such as Miró 's late works . |
| 3 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 4 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 5 | It will also examine the response of fans to structural and cultural changes in Scottish soccer , following the Taylor report on safety , and leading up to the 1994 World Cup Finals . |
| 6 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 7 | The only uncertainty is how the Lord is going to play it this time : start with the two of trumps and lead up to the ace , start with the ace and run down to the two , or mix them around . |
| 8 | And coming back to the twenty to twenty five hectare requirement within Greater York , as I 've already mentioned most of that is is in fact al already committed so I I really do n't see the problem in in the Leeds York corridor . |
| 9 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 10 | We can trace the current state of our knowledge about village origins and changes back to the 1940s . |
| 11 | By mid-season Lotus had given up and gone back to the 72 . |
| 12 | I decided in the circumstances that the 35 US gallon model was hardly adequate for my purposes and traded up to the 55 US gallon model . |
| 13 | Cray Research Inc says it could sell 30 to 40 massively parallel systems in 1994 ‘ if we do things correctly ’ : Derek Robb , director of sales , told Reuter that Cray 's massively parallel systems cost several million dollars at the low end , and run up to the multi-millions ; they link together hundreds or thousands of Alpha RISC processors and in 1994 , Robb said , he ‘ could see ’ its parallel revenues reaching 25% of the Cray total ; at the very top end , customers ' budgets are now topping out at about $50m to $60m , he said , meaning the most processors it would likely offer on its T3D system is 2,048 . |
| 14 | The clinical details and follow up of the seven patients in whom the diagnosis was based on cytology alone are given in Table V. This group of patients all followed a clinical course suggestive of malignancy with progressive deterioration and death in two to six months from the time of discharge . |
| 15 | The Woman loomed over the group , tall and brown and smiling down at the two mops of black hair — one over a quizzical smile and the other over a scowl . |
| 16 | I closed the door and sat down in the one chair this side of his desk . |