Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | US Cellular Corp saw third quarter net losses of $6m up from losses of $4.4m last time , on turnover up 66.5% at $42.2m ; net losses for the nine months stood at $1.7m down from losses of $26.2m last time , after $14.9m gains from the sale of cellular interests this time and $10.3m tax charges last time , on turnover that rose by 72.2% to $109.7m . |
| 2 | In this context , Bryan Gould 's decision to challenge John Smith for the Labour leadership , as our political correspondent wrote last week , is welcome — not because he will win , but because it forces a debate to take place . |
| 3 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 4 | Constant vigilance is essential , but undergraduates have little opportunity to gain first hand experience of infectious diseases during their hospital training . |
| 5 | For the variable we are considering , this prediction implies that the difference between the current value of the retail price index and the expectation of that index formed last period will be a serially uncorrelated random variable with mean zero , that is : where P t is the actual value of the current retail price index , is the expectation of P t , formed in period , and v t is the random forecast error , which is uncorrelated with any information available in period or earlier . |
| 6 | It was when he was persuaded out of retirement to try classic bike racing last season that the accident happened . |
| 7 | Perkin-Elmer Corp saw second quarter net profits up 8.5% at $17.8m , after $3.3m gains from the sale of a joint venture , on sales down 89.4% at $243.6m ; mid-term net rose 19.3% to $30.3m , on turnover up 11.5% at $476.3m . |
| 8 | The Chinese government says that the number of Taiwan-financed projects approved last year was greater than the 3,815 approved during 1983–91 . |
| 9 | In oil , the main problem is administrative disruption following last June 's merger of the oil and gas industries and the switch to greater financial autonomy for individual production units , coupled with intended massive cutbacks in capital investment plans as the government seeks to balance its own books . |
| 10 | Some Tory loyalist backbenchers said last night that this episode could not be compared to the attack on Mrs Thatcher by the then Sir Geoffrey Howe , which is acknowledged to have cost her the keys to No. 10 . |
| 11 | It 's hard to figure out what exactly is happening with Hunter Systems Inc , Palo Alto , California , since nobody 's returning phone calls : we did manage to find out that its venture capitalist Technology Funding Venture Partners IV in San Mateo , California bought back Hunter 's debt at that auction staged last week ( CI No 2,147 ) — presumably no money really changed hands , and it now owns all of Hunter — but is the company still in business ? |
| 12 | A DISSIDENT woman poet , jailed for opposing the government had been unconditionally released early from prison , Cuba 's Foreign Ministry said last night . |
| 13 | He hoped to make amends in the 200 metres and would have started a clear favourite had first the marksman and then the referee not barred him from lining up for the heats . |
| 14 | In the jump-off Ratina went first and faultlessly again , but Beerbaum , without needing to ask the eight-year-old Classic Touch any desperate questions , won by more than three seconds . |
| 15 | So did is an anaphoric verb phrase ; that is to say , its referential properties operate not directly , but indirectly , through a previously mentioned verb phrase , in this case expired last Thursday , which must be re-applied , this time with John as subject . |
| 16 | In 1936 , ten years after some Scotsman had first given the world his ‘ wireless with pictures ’ , Mr Mitchell uttered those seminal words from the heart of Alexandra Palace , and the BBC was born . |
| 17 | Finally , Malcolm Fraser , ex-editor of the Standard and of the Daily Express became first honorary press adviser and subsequently was employed to run the press bureau at the colossal salary of £1,200 . |
| 18 | Another 01 returns tender first to Staveley with a coal train from Rotherwood . |
| 19 | Portfolio also benefited from differential premium rating introduced last December . |
| 20 | ‘ German unity depends first of all on the German people … and France will not be against it . |
| 21 | The Association of British Insurers recommended last month that its members should introduce a clause in all new policies specifically excluding terrorist damage . |
| 22 | FAMILIES are in line for a Christmas cash boost from the taxman , the Inland Revenue said last night . |
| 23 | The third question is which herefordshire trained horse finished second to Desert Orchid in the Gold Cup in 89 |
| 24 | Each year the local fete has a different theme and this photograph won second prize at the village show some weeks later . |
| 25 | Cantona 's nomadic journey though English football began last January , when Sheffield Wednesday manager Trevor Francis tried to sign him from Nimes . |
| 26 | In Malaysia , environmental concern over the rainforests is now seen as at best a Western fashion , and at worst a cynical attempt by the wealthier nations to thwart Third World development . |
| 27 | Trading losses from commercial aircraft mushroomed last year from £37 million to £337 million . |
| 28 | PUBLIC SPEAKERS COME SECOND |
| 29 | AMONG THE SPEAKERS WERE ALI BOUREQUAT , THE FRENCH CITIZEN FREED LAST DECEMBER AFTER 19 YEARS IN MOROCCAN PRISONS ; BRUCE HARRIS , THE RELENTLESS CAMPAIGNER ON BEHALF OF GUATEMALAN STREET CHILDREN ; AND IAN MARTIN , THE DEPARTING SECRETARY GENERAL OF AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL . |
| 30 | The book opens with a narrative passage evoking first the scenes in a typical day early this century , leading up to the arrival of the first train at Craven Arms , and then a poignant shorter evocation of the way things looked shortly after the closure . |