Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [num] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We also aim to prepare more four year olds for full-time education and we aim to provide incentives to schools that wish to diversify the fourteen to nineteen curriculum .
2 First , he must regain support abroad , stop the economy from re-entering the tailspin in which he found it and reconquer the two-thirds of the country lost to an undeclared civil war , without driving new recruits into the arms of the guerrillas .
3 Happy though he was , Ya'acov wanted very much to be together with Solly , his brother , and the Maggses were not able to accommodate the two of them .
4 ‘ I should have realised the two of you were n't a couple , ’ Vitor reflected , when he had finished his sandwiches .
5 The union is forced to pour resources into simply maintaining the thousands of small branches which trade unionism in agriculture automatically involves .
6 They divided the 12 into three groups of four birds each .
7 GOVERNMENT officials are planing to install a network of computers at dozens of British ports and airports to monitor the millions of travellers who enter and leave Britain each year .
8 As I passed the two of them a second security guard came out of the doorway , holding a fat canvas money-bag .
9 Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control .
10 The Peruvian military reacted with force during the Pamplona invasion in May 1971 , when they tried to evict the tens of thousands who had participated in this huge squatter invasion in Lima , with the result that there were several injuries and one death ( Collier 1975 ) .
11 Oh er , usually pale er , pale pink er again the ever cream colour which seem to , you could of painted the fifties with cream I think , erm and erm pale blue , powder blue colour er , they were all pale colours , er pale yellow or an amber colour , they had to be pale otherwise they would n't let the light through
12 ( Perhaps he mistook the seven on his DME indicator for a three ? )
13 ‘ Perhaps indeed , ’ he dared , checking his sound with Mrs Crump every syllable of the way , ‘ we may throw the two of you together ? ’
14 The transformations that made the 740 into the 940 — a more rounded rump with a bigger boot , a more modern , 960-like facia , bigger brakes and more front headroom — are all worthwhile , and the 940 SE Turbo is solid , well built , generously equipped and decently rapid .
15 Using the ME-6 through a valve combo I found myself trying to squeeze more tone out of all the distortion settings , something I do n't ever remember trying to do with BOSS 's DS1 compact distortion pedal which , for some reason , I assumed the overdrive on the ME-6 would emulate .
16 IBM Corp is using the 88110 in its new X terminals but says it will probably migrate to PowerPC 601s when it 's got them in volume : a 40MHz 88110 offers roughly the performance of a 33MHz SuperSparc .
17 HP will compare the 987 to IBM 's top-of-the-line AS/400 E90 midrange system , chortling over the estimated 60% cost-of-ownership a 987 user will save over three years .
18 The Everyman is making this exclusive offer to the Echo to promote the two for the price of one Bard Card ticket , which operates for its own Shakespearian production , Much Ado About Nothing , until Friday .
19 The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record .
20 Given the 98 to 100 per cent support from dairy farmers it is looking for , that would mean it still bought virtually all the milk in its area while processing and selling much of it through its commercial company Scottish Pride .
21 I 've given the two to Jim as well together so
22 It even admitted that there were ‘ problems ’ — a slight euphemism , given the tens of thousands of people who had attended mass protests up and down the country — and hinted that the government might be to blame .
23 There are probably many examples of instances in which Western technology has come up with a good idea which has the capability of helping the hundreds of millions of people in the Developing World .
24 if you passed , if you failed the eleven plus and if you were clever enough , you could take an exam , like an entry exam to go , it 's sort of if you improve from eleven to fifteen you could take an entry exam to go into grammar school then , so that you could take your G C E's
25 Like erm , but , like Miss says some of the stuff on it was so rubbish , I mean like , there was somebody she knew , who their son failed the eleven plus twice and now they 've got their P H D
26 MOTOROLA IS PLANNING TO SAMPLE THE 68060 IN JULY
27 ‘ I fear the two of you will leave me far behind . ’
28 The Clothes Show Magazine team recreate the Sixties at the NEC in Birmingham
29 Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting .
30 ‘ It 's grand to see the two of youse together , ’ he says , cool as you like .
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