Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such regulations could make specific practices a criminal offence and the giving of specific information mandatory . |
| 2 | The main supplier to Billingsgate Fish Market in London , the Dornoch Firth fishery produces 2,300 tonnes a year , of which 40 per cent is exported . |
| 3 | It flies eight times a day from Gondar , carrying 1.8 tonnes of grain every trip . |
| 4 | This made short-term gilts an attractive buy ( before any interest rate cut ) , because of their fixed interest payments , so the price of these rose , driving down their yield . |
| 5 | I mean eight hours a day , it 's got ta be over the hundred |
| 6 | He took food by mouth but passed 5–8 motions a day and probably absorbed little of it . |
| 7 | Apart from his own studies , Tetsu teaches English and mathematics to children ; he had taught eight hours a week over the past year to finance this , his first trip outside his homeland . |
| 8 | Industrial robots made 9600 welds an hour in Detroit . |
| 9 | In fact once it reaches a large size , or starts to breed , territoriality will almost certainly make private quarters a necessity — it is relatively peaceful in relation to its size , but — and this applies to many other Central American substrate spawners — it is unreasonable to expect a fish with a natural breeding territory of 10 or more feet in diameter to share a tank with anything else . |
| 10 | Since an average-sized woman would be eating 2,000–2,300 calories a day to maintain her normal weight , the reduction should result in a loss of about 2lb a week . |
| 11 | Southall , 34 , who drives 140 miles a day between his home in Llandudno , North Wales , and the Everton ground in Liverpool , was trapped by police radar in August . |
| 12 | The re-emergence of the Soviet Union from its self-imposed isolation offers British companies an alternative to the saturated consumer markets and cartelised suppliers of western Europe . |
| 13 | In peptide producing endocrine cells the main secretory products pass from the Golgi to the cell exterior through the so called regulated route — that is , in secretory granules that are released by exocytosis on stimulation . |
| 14 | Steel rise : Steel production in Britain averaged 339,700 tonnes a week in April , 0.9pc higher than in March and 1.7pc above the figure for April 1991 . |
| 15 | ‘ This ram sale attracts entries from virtually every sheep breed in Northern Ireland and offers commercial flock-owners an opportunity to select quality sires essential for profitable lamb-production . ’ |
| 16 | Although double glazing ( either secondary glazing or replacement windows ) wo n't reduce fuel bills by that much , it will help make some rooms a lot more comfortable . |
| 17 | ‘ The Pru did not have a budgetary system before I joined , the accountants produced some numbers every year but they were not comprehensive or in any sense management information . |
| 18 | Queen Anne died a year after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which had brought to an end a cycle of wars which , while primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe , had given English governments an opportunity to take colonies away from other European countries and increase their empire by annexation as well as by settlement . |
| 19 | He sold some Jamaicans a bag of fake cannabis . |
| 20 | Some antelopes have been recorded fleeing at 42 miles an hour for a mile , or 35 miles an hour for 4 miles , and deer have been able to sustain 30 miles an hour for an astonishing 20 miles . |
| 21 | Ackroyd has given some readers the impression that the modern narrative , the paler of the two , is paler on purpose — in obedience , presumably , to the doctrine of time , of its runnings-down and recurrences , which figures in the novel . |
| 22 | CORRECTION : Our June feature on redundancy may have given some readers the impression that redundancy pay is based on full pay , which is incorrect . |
| 23 | Erm and I think that a well I do n't think , it 's essential that we send Regional Railways a letter , which says that we have decided to refund this , erm to assist them in er financially . ? |
| 24 | From the remainder , patients representing 12 times the number of participating general practitioners in the practice were selected randomly . |
| 25 | We race 12 months a year but I wanted a change as I was feeling a bit stale . |
| 26 | Often they have to work 12 hours a day to fulfil contracts . |
| 27 | At St-Aubin , soil contains 30 times the acceptable level of radioactivity . |
| 28 | However , this did not turn out to be such a cheap solution in the long run , since it set up conditions of even greater instability , necessitating repeated operations every two years.5 Major work on the river Taff and the river Usk in South Wales , carried out in the early 1980s , has precipitated extensive and unforeseen repair bills . |
| 29 | This means that a 40 ton lorry travelling at 70 miles an hour has 53 times the destruction power and maiming power that is possessed by a 0.75 ton sports car travelling at the same speed . |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing 's changed for Mrs Kitchener , other than — the family who support her , the two daughters are still at war — Mrs Kitchener now has six days a week day care … |