Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope very much that management and employees in the various companies will be able to agree to mount one bid . |
| 2 | Our Georgia guests used the small flat-bottomed craft to go bonefishing one afternoon , and Thessy , well trained by his father , led them unerringly to a sea-flat by a mangrove swamp where , in just a few heart-racing moments , they landed four of the gleaming and elusive fish . |
| 3 | If we can construct an analyzer with ΔE/E = 0·001 , this contributes > 1 eV for the electrons ejected with > 1000 eV kinetic energy using X-ray radiation , but only 0·01 eV for 10 eV electrons produced using 21 eV [ He(I) ] excitation . |
| 4 | They will also want to see 2,500 voting papers from another NUS election which mysteriously turned up seven years after they should have been destroyed . |
| 5 | ‘ I come originally from Forfar and I got jumped one night there by a lot of casuals . |
| 6 | At any moment I expected to see one drop with a cardiac arrest , but the sultan told us not to underestimate their power . |
| 7 | The audience were all staring at the stage — as though not daring to miss one moment . |
| 8 | His scheme involves eliminating 100,000 parking places and installing 15,000 parking-meters . |
| 9 | He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing . |
| 10 | He is helping to supervise three post-graduate associates in a marketing exercise for BICC , which marks a broadening of the scheme 's primary role in manufacturing . |
| 11 | Then weighted averages of the section indices are calculated to find eleven group indices and the all-items index . |
| 12 | This involves keeping one concession in reserve to use as the final push towards agreement : ‘ If you are willing to place an order now , I 'm willing to offer an extra 2½ per cent discount . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I got to know one girl at the local teacher training college , and now if she is n't available she puts me in touch with one of her friends . |
| 14 | Though the literature on organizational politics has emphasized one-on-one relationship building , my research moves the emphasis to the coalition . |
| 15 | That means that if you decide you want to go one way and he has other ideas , you have to convince him that your wish takes priority . |
| 16 | The star of the hit film Howards End , which has received nine Oscar nominations , also wants Andrew Farquharson , 27 , from Inverness , to stop phoning her at her family home in Golders Green , north London . |
| 17 | The National Gallery has received 150 restitution claims to date , half of which have been satisfied , the rest deferred following negotiations , by keeping the item on long-term loan . |
| 18 | Air Products has developed two silicone surfactants for manufacturers of rigid polyurethane foam who are currently using HCFC blown foam systems . |
| 19 | The ‘ sight ’ episode of Supersense ( the sequel of which , Lifesense , begins this month on BBC1 ) had a four-eyed fish whose eyes are divided so it can simultaneously watch above the water for predators and below the water for prey ; the woodcock which has developed 360 degree ‘ wraparound ’ vision ; bees which see colours in flowers man can not and a map of the sky from which to navigate . |
| 20 | While the geological sedimentologist has developed one set of criteria by which sedimentary deposits are assessed , an entirely different approach to sands and gravels is taken by the construction industry which uses such materials for concrete , road metal aggregates , mortars and plastering . |
| 21 | When these shoals meet it is very likely to occur over a groundbaited area which has stopped one shoal in its tracks , and the other shoal pauses over the top to intercept the crumbs which are sent swirling upwards from the feeding shoal on the bottom . |
| 22 | One of Wulfstan 's legal texts says that the king has stopped one kind of injustice and hopes that he will do more . |
| 23 | Only two outsiders are permitted to eat from the kitchen — the governor , who has to sample one meal every day to be able to answer any complaints the following day , and the doctor , who tastes the food two or three times a week to ensure that it is balanced and nutritious . |
| 24 | Pentagon officials acknowledge using two Stealth fighter bombers to drop 2,000 pound bombs . |
| 25 | So , normally the boiler will malfunction on the D6 roll of a 6 , but if the Steam Tank has sustained 1 wound it will malfunction on a 5 or 6 , if it has 2 wounds it goes wrong on a 4 , 5 or 6 and so on . |
| 26 | The widespread assumption about IBM 's forthcoming engine — and one to which we subscribe — is that it will be a machine designed to support one software scheme only . |
| 27 | The valves of a reciprocating pump are designed to enable one side of the moving piston to suck fluid whilst the other expels fluid . |
| 28 | Grinols defines the dividend in production as " the profits of British post entry production less the profits which would have been earned using 1972 membership production levels . " |
| 29 | Honours students may opt to include two literature in translation courses in their curriculum . |
| 30 | But the staff at Westonbirt say lose one claim to fame , gain another . |