Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Work on the stand has already begun and the club are hoping to extend the plans to include seven executive boxes and a press box . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend join me in sending congratulations to a Yorkshire manufacturing company , Spring Ram plc , which at the end of the month will open two new factories in my constituency , creating 400 new jobs , which is at present building two new factories in Barnsley which will create 400 new jobs , and which has a plan to create 1,100 new jobs in Bradford over the next four years ? |
| 3 | After two abortive attempts to bring the drugs in by lorry from Belgium , the gang made two successful runs involving transporting consignments of 99kg and 72kg . |
| 4 | This is a memo to Caroline at Aiden Mouth Good evening Caroline , can I refer you to Aiden Mouth , invoice number A four hundred which is linked to invoice number one , nine , O , seven , six , paragraph invoice where total is one , sorry , seventeen thousand , one hundred and six kilos , of which Aran A R A N contributes twelve thousand , eight hundred and ninety two kilos , which is seventy five point three seven percent of the total weight , stop , in your invoice number A four hundred you have charged us the full charges , whereas we are only liable for seventy five point three seven percent of the New Zealand to U K charges , dash , am I not correct , question mark . |
| 5 | The Wedding Present made four more appearances with ‘ Take me ’ ( four ) , ‘ Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now ? ’ ( eight ) , ‘ I 'm Not Always So Stupid ’ ( 15 ) , and ‘ Do n't Laugh ’ ( 49 ) . |
| 6 | Mrs Dass read two further novels by Dennis Wheatley , and was unaware of the statements made to her husband by Timothy Gedge . |
| 7 | Thereafter , possibly because the magazine began to appear more irregularly , Minton produced one further design , showing pages of manuscript fluttering down between buildings , and which was used for the next seven issues . |
| 8 | Then Bernard made two critical decisions ; for the first time he organized some advertising and he hired a new shop manageress . |
| 9 | Nixon 's forced resignation over the ‘ Watergate ’ political scandal in 1974 , together with the fall of South Vietnam to Communism in 1975 , were major blows to US self-confidence , and the 1976 election revealed two clear alternatives to the realpolitik of Nixon and his successor Gerald Ford . |
| 10 | Dan Duva , Lewis 's promoter , said : ‘ When Larry Holmes ( a former black champion ) fought Gerry Cooney ( a white contender ) , Larry Holmes got four million and Gerry Cooney got eight million . |
| 11 | The Hercules made one more pass to drop the second and final target flare . |
| 12 | Baker made three separate trips to the region between April 8 and 26 , holding talks in Israel , Syria , Egypt and several other countries [ see May News Digest for a chronology of Middle Eastern diplomacy between March and May ] . |
| 13 | Folding the sheet of paper into four , and slipping it in the back pocket of his denims , Doyle asked one last thing . |
| 14 | This holds that although Desert Storm passed one narrow test of political success ( the eviction of Iraq from Kuwait ) it failed in almost every other way . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a tradition in Scotland of local authorities assisting one another . |
| 16 | Evidence to support this conclusion comes from a further set of studies by Honey and Hall ( 1989b ) , who examined the effects of compound pre-exposure in the conditioned suppression paradigm using two auditory stimuli , a tone and a click . |
| 17 | Faced with rapidly-depleting timber resources , the Bangladesh government has announced plans to plant 85 million trees this year . |
| 18 | In November 1938 , the Cambridge Board produced two new major proposals for the development of its rural areas scheme . |
| 19 | As a basis for understanding ‘ the current crisis of central-local relations in Britain' ( p. 10 ) Saunders offers an alternative analytical framework encompassing four main dimensions : organizational , economic , political , and ideological . |
| 20 | The winner receives two return BA tickets to the European city of his or her choice and up to £1,000 of accommodations costs paid for by Grant Thornton , which will also provide local contacts where necessary . |
| 21 | Hereford made one bad mistake … and they paid for it … |
| 22 | On his behalf , Great Burkill made one more assault on the establishment , only to receive from the university the final brush off . |
| 23 | In September 1988 there are 38 single and 6 double fields on the Modular Course allowing 709 different combinations of subjects for certificate , DipHE , degree and honours degrees including BA , BSc and BEd . |
| 24 | Between 1948 and 1991 Parliament passed eight substantive Criminal Justice Acts for England and Wales , one Criminal Law Act which was close enough in content to the specifically criminal justice legislation to be similarly classified , four Scottish Criminal Justice Acts , and several acts dealing with criminal justice administration , international co-operation and minor matters requiring legislation . |
| 25 | Dutch proposals to include two tropical hardwood tree species under CITES listing provoked the angry Malaysian response that CITES " should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade in timber " , for which the International Tropical Timber Organization was already responsible . |
| 26 | Dutch proposals to include two tropical hardwood tree species under CITES listing provoked the angry Malaysian response that CITES " should not be used as a tool to straitjacket international trade in timber " , for which the International Tropical Timber Organisation was already responsible . |
| 27 | Brushing aside military and logistical arguments , the Communists claimed that this reflected the continuing influence of the ‘ Men of Munich ’ within the Government , men who wanted Britain to stand on the sidelines while Russia and Germany fought one another to a standstill . |
| 28 | Do n't expect this router to produce complex edge patterns using one large cutter : more decorative edges can be formed if the user is patient and makes several simpler profiles which can be fixed together . |
| 29 | The Israeli authorities placed three prominent Palestinians under " administrative detention " for periods of up to one year on Nov. 13 . |
| 30 | The concert , involving about 150 choirs from the Britain , Ireland , Australia , South Africa and the Ukraine , will occupy the whole of the West Stand on May 23 , with a stage at ground level to accommodate four military bands and three international soloists , including Oliver Sammons , Britain 's choirboy of the year . |