Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Severum had previously outgrown his siblings very rapidly and had shown no hint of aggression except for eating three Halfbeaks which were temporarily transferred to his tank . |
| 2 | There was after all nothing remarkable about seeing two men kiss in that way at that time of the night . |
| 3 | This view , it appears , is too simple-minded : a baby does not become a different kind of adult for being bottle-rather than breast-fed , for being weaned early rather than late , for encountering one kind of attitude rather than another at some particular time . |
| 4 | Er he said or he 's in a in a in a little trouble today for allowing two men who had sex of thirteen to go free erm a policeman told the judge that the thirteen year old was more like Mandy Smith than the proverbial school girl with pigtails but she was nevertheless thirteen and the judge said he had better not say she was no angel or the national press would have a hundred field days with him . |
| 5 | A preference for using one code rather than the other could explain differences between individual subjects in the direction of hemifield asymmetry for different tasks ( Kroll and Madden , 1978 ) . |
| 6 | INSTRUCTIONS FOR USING FIFTY MILLESIMALS |
| 7 | Discuss the different ways this could be done and give reasons for preferring one method of providing such an education . |
| 8 | But should he ever lose faith in the principles behind his asceticism , and fail to put other principles in their place , he will not find himself living in a void without grounds for preferring one apple to another . |
| 9 | Therefore , where multiple rates of return exist there would appear to be no mathematical or economic grounds for preferring one rate to another . |
| 10 | So if the carriage starts pattern knitting at the point cam and after knitting the last row , calculates which stitch , of the pattern to start knitting on , if you move the point cam nearest the carriage between knitting one row and starting the next , you will find your pattern has moved sideways . |
| 11 | The computer also takes care of other jobs , such as channelling one programme to several booths simultaneously , or providing data on current system usage and tape popularity . |
| 12 | By 11 October we find local party authorities demanding from peasants the delayed payment of 425 pudy of rye for maintaining ten children on the Volga . |
| 13 | Gloucester City councillor Anthony Gilberthorpe was awarded £60,000 when he sued the Daily Mirror and the Sun for suggesting six years ago he 'd undergone an AIDS test in America . |
| 14 | Burgess got himself caught for speeding three times in the same day , caused a deliberate rumpus with his inimitable flair for trouble-making , and departed under an engineered cloud . |
| 15 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 16 | Mr Gyula Vasarhelyi , aged 62 , of Oakdene Avenue , holds the Guinness Book of Stamps record for completing 6,000 stamp designs for 121 countries . |
| 17 | Retired joiner Ted is not just a figurehead , as many presidents are he plays an active part in the running of the club and was recently honoured by the CIU and the club for completing 25 years in the post . |
| 18 | The latest bale grab is designed for handling three Heston 4600 bales . |
| 19 | And since she could not say , " About horrid Ben Braithwaite for wasting two years of Linnet 's youth and having his dreary wedding on a day when Gemma would have been better off staying in bed , " she chirruped brightly , " Everything , darlings — because this is what I want us to do . |
| 20 | Certainly there is plenty in the literature about using cobalt-60 sources for sterilisation and DoE researchers found that spent reactor fuel rods did the job quite effectively .. |
| 21 | Speculative efficiency implies that where f t is assumed to be the forward rate for trading two periods forward . |
| 22 | In other words , instead of almost doubling year by year , last we are about the same , we have n't got all the confirmations , we 're about the same as we were the year before , give or take a few , about say five percent . |
| 23 | Well I would say it 's , yes , better , cos mean with th with th these erm containers you see now I mean , we had about say ten years ago we had a man here he used to deal with the all general cargo , all loose cargo from Beirut and all the Mediterranean ports but course now you got the trouble there now that 's a , that 's a cargo that 's , what 's fell away . |
| 24 | Right and if you take E as about say ten seconds |
| 25 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 26 | Something about owin' five pounds , is it ? ’ he inquired quite calmly . |
| 27 | A further one hundred questionnaires were sent out to develop and validate these vignettes , and an analysis of the questionnaires resulted in the development of eight distinct styles of information use , pupils matched to these eight styles by their teachers have been interviewed and differences in the way these pupils talked about tackling two assignments in different subjects are currently being analysed . |
| 28 | In the same account period Thomas Wilson was paid for landing 587 kibbles at a similar rate ; Thomas Townson landed 649 ditto , and John Jenkinson Jnr . |
| 29 | Couturier is more convincing in his demonstration of how the increase in available textual material brought about by the invention of print led to new strategies for incorporating one text into another without overt plagiarism ( 48 ) . |
| 30 | She had been halfway through wallpapering one room when the pull of the sun had grown too strong to resist a second longer . |