Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chairman of the Museums and Galleries Commission , Graham C. Greene , has asked the Attorney General Nicholas Lyell to look into the matter of the permission , finally granted this year by the Charity Commissioners , but applied for in 1988 , to break the Trust of Thomas Holloway . |
| 2 | The 12 person dormitories have been replaced by five purpose-built houses , each with rooms catering for between two and six people . |
| 3 | The improvement in trading which I reported a year ago rapidly evaporated as recession regained its grip in the United Kingdom and gained momentum in the important Continental Europe and Japanese markets which themselves account for about one half of the sales of our United Kingdom businesses . |
| 4 | It has won an important contract with Eurodisney and has substantially increased its exports which now account for over three-quarters of its sales . |
| 5 | It was not that the mines were not producing for between 1564–1570 metal to the value of £31,167 was sold , but even this did not cover the operating costs . |
| 6 | Place the beans in a casserole with water to cover , bring to the boil and then simmer for about 1 hour . |
| 7 | Pour in the stock , bring to the boil , then cover and turn down to a gentle simmer for about 1 hour and cook until tender , stirring occasionally . |
| 8 | As a rule of thumb , a pre-sensitised board can be exposed for between 5 and 10 minutes using an ordinary UV light box . |
| 9 | The candidate and unit enrolment data is cumulative in that , for example , the courses enrolled for in 1991–2 will include the new Batch 2 courses first validated for that year — but will also include candidates enrolling for the second cycle of Batch 1 , the third cycle of Phase 2 pilots , etc . |
| 10 | Although the resolution authorized a governing body established in Geneva , consisting of all 15 members of the Security Council , to decide how much would be paid into the Fund annually , the United States had reportedly pressed for between 40 per cent and 50 per cent of Iraqi oil revenues to be diverted each year . |
| 11 | Because the theme of betrayal figures so often in fable , myth and legend throughout all cultures , it seems that it is something we must all know about at one level or another and need to have formalized in story form . |
| 12 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 13 | Nine solicitors were interviewed for between 20 and 50 minutes about the treatment of ethnic minority defendants . |
| 14 | Under a dome with the modest diameter of 120 metres the complex was to contain various meeting halls with seating for from two to twelve thousand people . |
| 15 | Add the chopped , skinned peppers and peeled prawns to the onion mixture , and cook for about 1 minute to soften the peppers . |
| 16 | It is worth remembering that even the highly efficient drugs currently available will not remove all the worms present ; that some cattle nematodes can infect sheep and vice versa ; and that a few infective larvae on the pasture can survive for beyond two years . |
| 17 | I 've said I 'd be prepared to work for between two and three days a week |
| 18 | Their defence solicitor said Merlin had been well looked after for five years . |
| 19 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 20 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 21 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 22 | It was this approach that Spaniards were reminded of on 31 March 1947 , as they listened to Franco 's reedy voice on the radio , telling them that the time had come to " confront the ultimate definition of [ their ] State , inseparably linked to the statute of succession in its highest echelons " . |
| 23 | ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said . |
| 24 | [ See Fig. 1 ] ( To get an idea of what a tetrahedron looks like in three dimensions , look at one of those awkwardly-shaped cardboard milk cartons . |
| 25 | I have never been able to see it with the naked eye ( as some observers claim to have done ) , but it is not hard to find with × 7 , and it is easy with × 8.5 . |
| 26 | NGC 1528 , yet another open cluster , is difficult with × 7 , easy with × 12 and partly resolved with × 20 . |
| 27 | Two particularly charming works are ‘ Le jaloux dort ’ by Antoine Borel in which a scantily-clad woman slips out of the bed where her husband is sleeping soundly and into the arms of her lover , and ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ by Etienne Leguay , depicting an all-female bathing party spied upon by three men with telescopes . |
| 28 | Erm , they do , they are , they they have had er , registered disabled employees previously , er , and they are committed in in one ex example of two work experience er children from the St Francis Special School , they take two every year , er for for works experience training , and I do intend to talk to the General Manager and ensure that they are encouraging di disabled people to apply for jobs of that kind . |
| 29 | What I would like to just er point out to the panel in terms of the earlier discussion the Senior Inspector was having about the sites around Greater York is that virtually without exception , well the two exceptions being the two hospital sites , I think all the other sites are actually our planning commitments so erm your comment about erm the longevity of the the greenbelt as it were , that virtually all those sites are actually committed in in one form or another , the only two sites which are not er committed really are the Naburn and Clifton hospital sites which are both inset within the greenbelt , well one is inset and one is subject to the normal P P G two er requirements for redevelopment of hospitals . |
| 30 | Counties ranged in population from about 2 million ( Lancashire ) to less that 30,000 ( Rutland ) ; county boroughs ranged from over 1 million ( Birmingham ) to 33,000 ( Canterbury ) — less than the minimum population stipulated in 1888 . |