Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 2 | Production had fallen during 1992 in almost all sectors , privatization had been slow and the performance of the new companies showed little improvement . |
| 3 | Martin Lally did find the net with one of his long-range specials , but the goal was disallowed for one of his team-mates being in an offside position . |
| 4 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd only really think about taking action if someone completely ripped off one of our songs and made heaps of money from it |
| 6 | The wire had cut so deeply , it had ripped off one of its legs and badly damaged another . |
| 7 | Playing the Little Sweep , his clothes were to be ripped off one by one by the Big Sweep and Assistant Sweep -played by the headmaster and French master — as they sang three verses , and then he was to be thrown up the chimney . |
| 8 | The miners ' strikes that have paralysed about one-third of Soviet pits are slowly breaking backbone industries , such as steel , gas and chemicals . |
| 9 | The methods they use , the mela shikar and the khedda , have not altered for thousands of years . |
| 10 | A ‘ standard ’ drink is calculated as one of the following : |
| 11 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 12 | Later I discovered she 'd arranged for one of her friends to phone and distract me so that she could make off with her booty ! |
| 13 | The interatomic distance ( A ) is given for one of the five contacts . |
| 14 | He was walloped for 31 for 1 in three overs and scored 20 . |
| 15 | The SIMS data , gathered during 1982 in twenty countries , provide information on the mathematics achievement of pupils aged 13 and 17 . |
| 16 | The disposal of Ultramar 's refining and marketing businesses was completed during 1992 for US$125 million . |
| 17 | Consequently the predisposition is sustained as one of the epigenetic rules . |
| 18 | Conner has grave doubts about how on-the-water umpiring , developed for 30 to 35-footers on the match race circuit , is working out with the bigger and faster America 's Cup class yachts . |
| 19 | One of Britain 's top jump jockeys , he had ridden the winners of over 350 races in his career and was recognized as one of the toughest of a tough breed . |
| 20 | The buildings date from the 1870s and are recognized as one of the best , if not the best , surviving groups of commercial buildings of that time . |
| 21 | The fact that Balboa caused the Ocean to become a Spanish lake , in effect , would come to be recognized as one of the most important stratagems in the development of the modern world . |
| 22 | This includes around one hundred works painted between 1780 to 1850 , when Copenhagen was a major European art centre . |
| 23 | Thirdly , Gardner et al , in their case-control study of leukaemia and lymphoma diagnosed during 1950–85 among young people in West Cumbria , concluded that the excess occurred among children whose fathers had high levels of exposure to radiation before the child was conceived , and perhaps particularly in the preceding six months ; they suggested that some cases were the result of paternal germ cell mutations , and that this could explain the excess in this geographical area . |
| 24 | Table III lists all cases of cancer diagnosed during 1953–91 in people aged 0–24 in Seascale . |
| 25 | It was 41 for 4 at tea , nine wickets having fallen for 69 in a session which none who experienced it will ever forget . |
| 26 | Mushtaq took the last two wickets to finish England off for 255 , the 10 having fallen for 132 in 45 overs . |
| 27 | The brew has been listed as one of the UK 's top 100 by a multimillion circulation national magazine . |
| 28 | William Gilkison is remembered still in the history of Ontario and is listed as one of the founding fathers of the province . |
| 29 | We had Latowa listed as one of the ‘ Big Talk , Big Ideal , Big Dreams ’ type . |
| 30 | In 1702 the title became The Queen 's Regiment , and in 1716 The King 's Regiment ; it was listed as one of ‘ the six old corps ’ . |