Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoarse but buoyant , Clinton had roared towards the end of a marathon tour of eight states yesterday pleading for every last vote . |
| 2 | US losses were given as 79 killed , 213 wounded , 45 missing and nine captured ; UK losses as 16 killed in action ( including nine from US fire but excluding a further eight who died in accidents or from illness ) , 31 wounded , 12 missing and two captured ( officially amended on March 8 to 17 killed and 43 injured with eight servicemen still missing ) ; French as two killed in action and at least 25 wounded ; one Italian pilot was killed and another captured . |
| 3 | The European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms was launched in November 1950 , with 12 states immediately appending their signatures . |
| 4 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 5 | I wrote to Sir Bob Reid , the chairman of British Rail , over 12 months ago expressing my constituents ' concern . |
| 6 | Although 30 years ago smoking in Britain had no links with social class , now there is a marked association between smoking and disadvantaged women , with poverty claimed to be at the root of the problem . |
| 7 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 8 | Alexanders , the jewellers , have been a Rolex concessionaire for over forty years now enabling us to offer you a service that we firmly believe is second to none . |
| 9 | Bob acquired the Blackburn-built Swordfish in September 1970 and has spent the last 22 years painstakingly rebuilding the aircraft . |
| 10 | A 250-bedroom extension to the Excelsior will increase total capacity to 1,576 rooms not counting Skyway 's 450 rooms . |
| 11 | Out of 12 patients originally presenting with argyrophil cell clusters , nine had an unchanged degree of hyperplasia , two had decreased hyperplasia , and one had increased hyperplasia at the end of the study . |
| 12 | But after three months hard work , publicity and campaigning there remained only a small core of about 30 people regularly using the club . |
| 13 | The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday . |
| 14 | The professor is required to retire not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 66th birthday , except that , if the successful candidate can establish a vested interest , as defined in the University 's statutes ( details available on request ) , in retirement at age 67 or later , then the date of retirement will be not later than the 30 September immediately preceding the 68th birthday . |
| 15 | Two-year-old Elvis+ employs 53 scientists currently working on wireless and space-capable communication systems , and fault-tolerant , imaging and control systems . |
| 16 | At present the pattern of weathering in small mammals is compared to that of large mammals ( Table 1.3 ) , with stage 1 weathering reached in 18 to 29 months ( plus 24 months in the pellet ) in the prevailing wet climate of central Wales , and stage 2 weathering still progressing after 36 to 48 months ( again with the addition of 24 months in the pellet ) . |
| 17 | According to Spanish press reports , the most recent migrants , who joined around 7,500 Moroccans already living there , were photographed and given voter registration forms by Moroccan officials and then provided with shelter . |
| 18 | So , if you have a head wind component of 30 kts then timing for a 1 minute leg would be increased by 30 seconds . |
| 19 | Turnover was up 10 per cent , to £1.5 billion , with 19,000 employees currently undergoing formal training — another record figure . |
| 20 | In fact a recent readers ’ survey commissioned by the relatively diminutive Sunday Telegraph found that the average Telegraph reader spends 61 minutes skimming its 48 pages while the Sunday Times reader spends on average just 10 minutes more wading through its vast encyclopaedic bulk . |
| 21 | Diana , who had visited the hospice last month , spent six hours yesterday chatting to its forty surprised patients — and having musical fun . |
| 22 | Yeah , I mean that 's six blokes there working there and they 're falling over theirselves really , in that |
| 23 | Percentages are based on a total of 46,652 solicitors altogether working in private practice . |
| 24 | Librarians must also carefully plan their initial selection decisions to make sure they take place before there is any danger of books being reported out of print ( although the chances of a book going out of print in the six months immediately following publication are often exaggerated — this happens rarely , and usually as the result of a miscalculation by the publisher ) . |
| 25 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 26 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 27 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 28 | So here he was six months later valeting his clothes on a hot Sunday afternoon when any normal youth would be outside . |
| 29 | Seve Ballesteros clinched his biggest cheque in six months when pocketing £16,000 for winning the Canon Shoot-out final at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 30 | Dalgliesh had last seen Blaney six months earlier splashing alone along the edge of the beach , painting gear slung over his shoulder , and was shocked by the change in the man . |