Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Mini Master failed to appear at last year 's Oshkosh because one of the 582 engines failed at 6500 ft 30 minutes after take-off from San Marcos , Texas . |
| 2 | The argument in favour of plumping looks at first sight convincing enough : in the later stages of the count your own party will stand a chance of benefiting from the transferred lower preferences expressed by supporters of other parties , whilst those parties will not benefit from the transferred lower preferences of your own supporters since they wo n't have expressed any . |
| 3 | Which do you want to comment on first ? |
| 4 | The new levels of grant — £2,845 in London halls or lodgings , £2,265 out of London and £1,795 for students living at their parental home — should remain frozen from next autumn as the loan scheme is phased in . |
| 5 | Pierre Alechinsky , at Emmerich until 24 April , may want to dash across 57th Street to see the ‘ Directors ’ Drawings ’ show at Pace . |
| 6 | Jose-Maria Olazabal , one of five players who finished equal 72nd in a field of 78 at New Orleans , has jumped into second place . |
| 7 | Gilford has 208,476.57 points and has consolidated his sixth place in the Cup table while Richardson , who finished sixth yesterday on 273 , has jumped from 13th to seventh with 184,746.41 points . |
| 8 | They stressed the principle of continuity lying behind the order in the universe which has developed through second causes ; and they were sympathetic to Darwin . |
| 9 | She has to go to Next , nowhere else . |
| 10 | The sun broke through , it stopped raining at last . |
| 11 | High street sales fell in Novbember and business this month is now expected to remain at last year 's depressed levels , says Nigel Whittaker , chairman of the CBI 's Distributive Trades Panel . |
| 12 | ICI , in sixth place last time , has fallen to 12th : still heavily dependent on commodity chemicals , ICI 's restructuring has not made it as immune to the industry 's boom-bust cycles as it had hoped . |
| 13 | With new mid-range models , NWS5000TF and the NEWS5000TG in its News workstation line , based on the R4000 RISC chip , Sony Corp is mounting a new offensive in the Japanese workstation market , where it has fallen to fourth place from third , deposed by NEC Corp as the number three player behind Sun Microsystems Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co . |
| 14 | And I want to apologize for last night , I made an awful ass of myself , I am sorry . ’ |
| 15 | When we have achieved this we will consider applying for third party certification . |
| 16 | It might pay Β to help α to beat off the challenge , because if he does not the sequence might become γ — α — Β , and Β has dropped from second to third . |
| 17 | The chart on the next page shows how industrial production has fared since last July compared with the past three recessions . |
| 18 | Scientists at British Biotechnology in Oxford are pinning their hopes on this second stage of trials of P24 VLP ; the Aids drug has come through first stage trials in London aimed at finding out whether it has any adverse effects . |
| 19 | The managers of such funds are on the stump , spreading the message that their day has come at last . |
| 20 | With Summer 's Last Will it may simply be , as Christopher Palmer suggests in his notes , that its moment , its ‘ right time ’ , has come at last . |
| 21 | ‘ So reunion has come at last , thanks , I think I may say , to me , ’ Neville Chamberlain wrote to his sister . |
| 22 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 23 | A quality housing conversion has come at last to one of Paisley 's oldest landmarks , the John Neilson Institution , and saved the building from the ravages of rot . |
| 24 | Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies . |
| 25 | Hendry Morrison , general manager of Aberdeen Cargo Handling Services is pleased by the way the business has grown since last December . |
| 26 | It is a team which has grown since last year , reflecting the important emphasis being placed on Export sales , which have shown almost a 25% increase by value in the last two years . |
| 27 | He stopped prowling at last , and dropped into one of the easy chairs facing me . |
| 28 | If the search problem in speech is indeed such that A* starts to behave like breadth-first , then the only way out of the combinatorial explosion produced by breadth-first search is to keep the search tree small . |
| 29 | Evert was supposed to struggle against the hard-hitting Jana Novotna , who has risen to 12th in the world rankings . |
| 30 | The fishing for sand-eels alone has risen until last year ( 1989 ) a million tonnes were taken from the North Sea by EEC member countries . |