Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 2 | The Mancunian dance team are the first band to host an all-nighter at the venue and intend to perform two sets , one at 10pm and the other in the early hours . |
| 3 | They were looking for the principles of organisation , how it is that we organise things like dots into a meaningful whole Why is it that we tend to see two lines crossing in the middle rather one two than two V's ? |
| 4 | Each protein and carbohydrate gram you eat contains 4 calories . |
| 5 | Each fat gram that you eat contains 9 calories . |
| 6 | That means that if you decide you want to go one way and he has other ideas , you have to convince him that your wish takes priority . |
| 7 | Pentagon officials acknowledge using two Stealth fighter bombers to drop 2,000 pound bombs . |
| 8 | When we want to compare two populations , as with the example of towns A and B above , we must apply the same ( standard ) weighting scheme to both ; this gives a standardized death rate ( SDR ) . |
| 9 | First , however , I want to compare two ways in which we can look at evolution . |
| 10 | The three-year experimental scheme will cost £40 million and involve using 100,000 hectares of land to produce 175,000 cubic metres of rape methyl ester ( RME ) . |
| 11 | But the staff at Westonbirt say lose one claim to fame , gain another . |
| 12 | But if you want a specific remedial programme for one child , or want to find one pupil 's strengths and weaknesses , the analysis is the best way . |
| 13 | I only want to know one thing ; I know it should n't be all-important , but deep down it 's the thing I 've thought about most . " |
| 14 | I want to know two things from you . |
| 15 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 16 | Croak croak croak one frog began to croak all by himself . |
| 17 | Although the actual rates produced by studies appear to differ two trends seem to be consistent : the lack of an association between depression prevalence and age and an excess prevalence among women compared with men . |
| 18 | Some involve tapping one key , and the rest require one key to be held down while another is tapped . |
| 19 | ‘ If I want to sell 80,000 units what is the maximum price I can charge ? ’ |
| 20 | I only want to tackle two things . |
| 21 | Now if you all want to pick one object from the tray . |
| 22 | Er I will be brief , I really want to cover two things er in my introduction . |
| 23 | Thank you Mr Chairman , I just want to cover three areas . |
| 24 | The operator has the choice of turning down one microphone — if for instance the class is working in groups and you only want to hear one group at a time — or of recording the combined sound of , say , teacher and student microphones on one audio track . |
| 25 | Detectives want to trace two people ; one of them a scruffy man with a centre parting seen on the towpath of the Stroudwater canal behind the house on the afternoon of the killing . |
| 26 | ‘ I want to reserve three seats on a train from Calcutta to Patna . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Those are the folk you want to walk fifteen miles to your meeting , ’ Byers said in a low voice . |
| 28 | Here , I want to identify one feature of that relationship which seems to me to be crucial in understanding generic transformation in television , and the specific and different forms it takes in the US and the UK : the organization of the schedule . |
| 29 | You want to buy four megabytes . |
| 30 | I want to use one film as a springboard into these questions — Brief Encounter ( 1945 ) , written by Noel Coward and directed by David Lean . |