Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [prep] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I still intend to train as a doctor , because I feel there is no more interesting and worthwhile way to spend my life , but how many other people will be able to or want to in the future ?
2 Fraudulent acts would be tried as misdemeanours and punished by up to two years in prison with or without hard labour .
3 The cars are built in Cowley and sell at up to fifteen thousand pounds each .
4 Sinn Fein complained that their election workers were being harassed and delayed for up to half an hour at checkpoints .
5 Some such cars were held up and trapped for up to six hours , for those who could the best option was to leave the car and complete the journey on foot .
6 To freeze : Spoon into a rigid container and freeze for up to 3 months .
7 It includes a video co-processor with 2Mb of memory to boost graphics performance , and ( along with the 3430 server ) comes with up to 512Mb RAM , 6.3Gb internal storage and support for up to 41 SCSI devices .
8 It includes a video co-processor with 2Mb of memory to boost graphics performance , and ( along with the 3430 server ) comes with up to 512Mb RAM , 6.3Gb internal storage and support for up to 41 SCSI devices .
9 Of the others arrested on 9 October , some were later released , one is awaiting trail and others have been tried and sentenced to up to three years ' imprisonment for , among other things , ‘ illegal association ’ .
10 Canvas covered and drawn by up to eight horses , most of them moved along at walking pace , but some lighter vans or " fly wagons " with more regular change of horses were faster .
11 It recommended that trials of scheduled terrorist offences should be conducted without a jury ; that members of the armed services should be given power to arrest and to detain for up to four hours to establish identity ; that bail should not normally be granted ; that the onus of proof as to the possession of firearms and explosives should in certain circumstances be shifted to the accused ; and that the rules about the admissibility as evidence of confessions and signed statements should be relaxed .
12 Witnesses said there was a large white light , travelling low and very fast , and accompanied by up to four smaller lights .
13 The scent is transferred to the tibiae in night , the bees re-alighting and collecting for up to 1 hour .
14 Er and erm I used to put it in this and go to out into the mess room outside where they there was a cook and it was a very grand name for a person you know , a cook .
15 The beast , it has been alleged , flies away from trouble : if surprised away from its burrow , it starts running , then opens its fringes to take off and glide for up to 20 yards .
16 Old gardens are not abandoned but are visited and cropped for up to 30 years ; these also attract game and facilitate hunting .
17 They are later carted to a ‘ clamp ’ which should be sited on free-draining ground , and covered with up to a foot of straw or bracken .
18 Like Challenge , these are built around the Mips R4400 and come with up to 12 and six of the parts respectively .
19 They 've just announced extra shifts at Cowley and plan to up production by a half in '93 .
20 Perhaps the most important of these has been that public education in England and Wales has been a service provided by public local authorities and paid for out of taxes .
21 According to NCR , the two- to 16- processor 3555 will deliver up to 1,440 VAX MIPS and comes with up to 8Mb cache , 2Gb RAM and 112Gb of internal disk storage , increased to 2Tb with external disks .
22 Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG has added new Motorola Inc 33MHz 68040-based models to its Targon /31 series of Unix systems : the uni-processor 35 is rated at 20.6 MIPS and comes with up to 128Mb RAM and 3Gb disk , the dual-CPU model 65 comes with from 64Mb to 256Mb disk and is priced at from £64,000 — both run the Unix SVR4-based Sinix-TOS V5.41 operating system .
23 Driven by up to eight Intel Corp 80860XP RISCs , Realityengine is claimed to perform at 800 MFLOPS and comes with up to 160Mb of memory for handling screen display .
24 DEC has announced a rack-mounted version of the 160MHz DEC AXP 4000 distributed or department system launched at its bet-the- company Alpha RISC blitz back in November ( UX No 411 ) : the one or two processor Futurebus+-based Model 610 is rated at 132 SPECmark89 as a uniprocessor and comes with up to 512Mb memory — 2Gb by year-end .
25 According to NCR , the two to 16 processor 3555 will deliver up to 1,440 VAX MIPS and comes with up to 8Mb cache , 2Gb RAM and 112Gb of internal disk storage , increased to 2,000Gb with external disks .
26 It is known , however , that synthetic PGPR has a very short half life ( <5 minutes ) in human serum in vitro but persists for up to four hours in human urine in vitro .
27 A plant that may only flower once in a hundred years but grows at up to seven inches a day is catching on with gardeners .
28 We gave more funding to the citizens advice bureaux : the Government even tried to axe the NACAB grant , but had to back down .
29 Each format has its own cassette design ( anticlockwise from top ) : VHS is the largest in size and has the longest runtime of up to four hours ( PAL ) ; VHS-C cassettes are more compact but the runtime is reduced to a maximum of 1 ½ hours ( Long Play ) ; Video 8 has the smallest cassettes but runs for up to four hours ( LP ) .
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