Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John was a cardmaker , and yet it was his good fortune to have depended on parish relief rather less often than some ; he and his family needed a brief period of support in the famine period of 1801–2 , when they were allowed 2s. a week , later reduced to 1s. , until payment stopped on 9 March 1802 . |
| 2 | By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià . |
| 3 | In a part of Chile where half the region 's income goes to 10 per cent of the population and a quarter of all the people regularly do n't have enough to eat , the day to day problems of scraping together an income are common . |
| 4 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 5 | When the long originally bought the June futures contract at 90.50 , he was expecting to lock in a three-month sterling interest rate of 9.50 per cent . |
| 6 | You can of course stay in one of our other hotels featured in this brochure but parking will have to be either on the street or in one of the municipal car parks . |
| 7 | The defence budget amounted to 35,062 million koruna in 1989 and was expected to amount to 31,180 million koruna in 1990 , or 23.6 per cent of overall government expenditure . |
| 8 | Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language . |
| 9 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 10 | And at floor level the Revue sits on four skid feet . |
| 11 | EVERY YEAR EXPORTS ACCOUNT FOR 85 PER CENT OF SCOTCH WHISKY SALES , A PROUD RECORD OF CONSISTENCY UNMATCHED BY OTHER INDUSTRIES . |
| 12 | Fish exports account for 90 per cent of the Faroe Islands ' export income . |
| 13 | Kalla produced evidence of detailed plans formulated since 1988 involving the incitement of student disturbances as a prelude to the takeover of key ministries and the imposition of a " theocratic state " . |
| 14 | Acute care operations account for 93 per cent of sales and 94 per cent of profits . |
| 15 | Malaysia , Thailand , Indonesia and Bolivia account for 70 per cent of world output . |
| 16 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 17 | The profit attributable to ordinary shareholders amounted to 524 million which , after dividends of 237 million , resulted in a transfer to reserves of 287 million . |
| 18 | Gallup 's interviewers asked in 1983 and 1987 , and again on Friday and Saturday : How long ago did you decide which way you would finally vote ? |
| 19 | The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs . |
| 20 | In the early stages we distinguish between ‘ other chronological writing ’ and ‘ non-chronological writing ’ , for the reasons given in 17.24 . |
| 21 | In his showmanlike way , Chapman wanted Highbury to become the greatest club ground in the world , a new kind of football mecca , with a big crowd capacity and as futuristic in design as the new West Stand , built at his suggestion to replace the old wooden stand erected in 1913 . |
| 22 | Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) . |
| 23 | anapaest ( US anapest ) In prosody , a foot consisting of two unaccented syllables followed by one accented syllable : I am " mon/arch of " all/I sur'vey . |
| 24 | True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) . |
| 25 | In poetry , a foot consisting of one long syllable followed by two short . |
| 26 | In poetry or prose , a disyllabic foot consisting of one short , followed by one long syllable ( classical scansion ) or with stress on the second syllable ( English poetry ) . |
| 27 | Moreover , as the University validates the Normal College 's courses , it would seem to us that whatever the pros and cons of retaining a local authority based teacher-training institution in Gwynedd , a much more sensible long-term solution would have been to integrate both the Normal College and St Mary 's College into the University College of North Wales when that opportunity arose after 1974 . |
| 28 | A single processor supports 64 users ; an optional second processor goes to 128 active users , twice what the line could previously handle . |
| 29 | Something about the tide unleashes upon one the suspicion that Mr Tim is not , himself , as it were , English . |
| 30 | This book is a translation of a Russian text completed in 1986 which has been partially revised , rearranged and updated . |