Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 2 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 3 | Positioning was validated fluoroscopically in six subjects , with no adjustment of tube required , and fluoroscopy was therefore not considered essential in subsequent subjects . |
| 4 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 5 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 6 | This had been the cause of the 1925 dispute , and the situation had altered little between 31 July 1925 , ‘ Red Friday ’ and 1 May 1926 when the coal lock-out began . |
| 7 | Had to go back to the school — had to sit amongst the probationers , and then after the school , he was posted right from one side of the city to the other . |
| 8 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 9 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 10 | Of the other three , Port Erin had to wait 58 years for its lifeboat station , being formed only in 1882 , while those suggested for Jurby and Laxey never materialised . |
| 11 | For example , unlike the rat , the development of pre-primitive streak stage mouse embryos is extremely unpredictable in vitro and although development is much improved if embryos are explanted after the primitive streak has formed it seems to be a general finding that normal growth and development can not be sustained much beyond 24 or 36 h in culture . |
| 12 | This has gradually been whittled down to nine attainment targets per child , to take 12 to 15 hours , and the tests are to be paper and pencil only . |
| 13 | A few weeks ago I said there were 10 teams in contention , now I reckon it has whittled down to six . |
| 14 | By October , when the administration 's Operations Sub-Group on Terrorism met in the White House Situation Room , the target list had been whittled down to one , Fawaz Younis , whom the CIA described as ‘ a key player in the back-street world of terrorism … who reported directly to the leadership of the Shiite Amal militia ’ . |
| 15 | Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long . |
| 16 | He was on a short-list of 15 , and it was whittled down to five . |
| 17 | This was whittled down to three for this event , including me . |
| 18 | The original 260,000 employees have since been whittled down to 50,000 and Sir Monty is a little resentful that he is probably most remembered for setting that radical rundown in motion . |
| 19 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 20 | Dating of the volcanic rocks of the Hawaiian Islands has shown that each of the main islands was formed in about 1 Ma . |
| 21 | A few have summered annually since 1966 , but breeding is still very rare . |
| 22 | First we should ask whether it is necessary to popular participation that all should be gathered together at one time in one place . |
| 23 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 24 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 25 | One of the monks , describing the presence , said he could ‘ perceive the fragrance of such a wonderful odour , as if all the flowers on earth were gathered together in one place ; I feel also a glow of heat within me — not at all painful , but most pleasing — and a certain unusual and unexplainable joy poured into my heart , which all of a sudden so refreshes and gladdens me I forget grief and weariness of every kind ’ . |
| 26 | Apart , then , from those for whom the virtue of representative democracy is precisely that it restricts and restrains popular power , and even , as in Britain , involves the vesting of sovereignty in the representative institutions rather than in the people themselves the chief argument in defence of representative democracy has been an essentially pragmatic one : that it is the best that can be devised in the context of large societies where the citizens are too many and too scattered to be gathered together in one place . |
| 27 | All expertise in a particular technique or on a certain topic can be gathered together in one place , and the level of collective knowledge can then be ascertained , supported and made available . |
| 28 | With all pupils gathered together in one room always with Roger supervising , at the end of the day , control is enforced in a highly visible and audible manner . |
| 29 | The anger and hurt she had felt gathered together in one anguished cry . |
| 30 | Silence now is a vote for expense , inconvenience , accident risk , and further environmental degradation , as witnessed daily by thousands . |