Example sentences of "[num] [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ON the eight o'clock radio news that Monday morning there was a substantial piece about an exciting police chase in Essex — understandably , on a rather lonely road . |
| 2 | His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) . |
| 3 | I was champing at the bit to investigate Stanford shopping precinct before my 2 p.m. hospital appointment with Dr Levy and his team , so Kenneth hastily finished his third helping and we walked the short distance to the precinct . |
| 4 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 5 | The United Kingdom 's largest privatization to date , the sale of the electricity supply industry in England and Wales , was completed on March 12 when stock exchange dealings began following flotation of the generating companies , National Power and PowerGen . |
| 6 | Silverpoint enjoyed a brief period of popularity in the 1890s when silverpoint kits , including specially prepared papers , were made commercially available by Winsor & Newton . |
| 7 | There are 6–7 slightly rugose arm spines , the shaft of the spines has large secondary points . |
| 8 | There are 7 slightly rugose arm spines , often with larger points along the shaft of the spine . |
| 9 | There are 10 slightly rugose arm spines on proximal arm segments , 6–7 on distal ones . |
| 10 | There are 4–5 finely rugose arm spines ; the second dorsalmost spine is the longest up to 2 arm segments long . |
| 11 | There are 7 finely rugose arm spines proximally , 4–5 distally ; there are large secondary points on the shaft of some spines . |
| 12 | There are 7 finely rugose arm spines , with large secondary points on the shaft giving the arm spine a more rugose appearance . |
| 13 | ‘ By 12.45 am restaurant time is over , so we look round the nightclubs . |
| 14 | According to market researcher Datamonitor , 3 million people cut up their credit cards in 1991 when standing charges were introduced . |
| 15 | After Aoun 's capture of Dbayeh , there was little heavy fighting until Feb. 10 when Army units launched attacks on LF bases near Jounieh port and in the Kesrouan mountains . |
| 16 | I went to Hazlitt 's sister hotel , The Gore , in Kensington ( buzzing , bigger and less personal but still hospitable ) for dinner at the Bistrot 190 where chef Anthony Worrall-Thompson creates lavish menus for those who enjoy guiltless eating . |
| 17 | Swiftly a ‘ marriage bar ’ was introduced , though its application does not appear to have been universal in the civil service until 1894 when government typists ( hitherto an ‘ unestablished ’ all-female grade ) obtained permanent , pensionable ‘ established ’ status by agreeing to a rule requiring automatic resignation on marriage . |
| 18 | And a wise precaution in 1979 when conducting business in the USA . |
| 19 | Day One : Travel from London Liverpool Street on the 7.30 p.m. boat train to Harwich . |
| 20 | There are 6–8 slightly rugose arm spines , the dorsalmost arm spines are the longest up to 2 arm segments long , the ventral most are usually the most rugose . |
| 21 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 22 | The station was first created in 1960 when community leaders took specific steps to try and improve the quality of life in the community . |
| 23 | In the late 1940s when council housing was planned , Lord MacDonald allowed the old houses with resident tenants a reprieve from the builder 's bulldozer . |
| 24 | Another effect was that it engineered a prevailing mood of despair about the quality of urban and industrial life which in turn bred a determination to rebuild and sweep away the past when the time came — which it did , in the 1940s when town planning was able to assume the mantle of the new provider . |
| 25 | He had learned to play during the 1940s when record players were still a rarity on the domestic front and so his exposure to jazz came mainly from the radio . |
| 26 | So matters remained until 1940 when war damage forced the Langham to close its doors . |
| 27 | In the UK , and up to December 1984 when grant levels were reduced , investment grants have been a considerable incentive towards first-time conversion of moorlands and rough grasslands in the LFAs . |
| 28 | The OECD stated in late 1983 that acid rain damage represents 3 to 5% of the European Community Gross National Product — or between £33 billion and £44 billion per year while the first joint step to combat air pollution in the European Community came in March 1984 when Environment Ministers agreed that new industrial plants could not be built without authorization relating to specific limits for industrial emissions . |
| 29 | One of the first things to catch the visitor 's eye when starting down from the castle esplanade is a cannonball lodged in the wall of a house , believed to have been fired from the castle at Holyroodhouse in 1745 when anti-Jacobite forces on the Castle Rock were at odds with Prince Charles Edward at the lower end of the town . |
| 30 | It was felt that the seven-member Organization of Eastern Caribbean States ( OECS ) , embracing the three Leeward island states ( Antigua and Barbuda , Montserrat , and St Kitts and Nevis ) as well as the four Windwards , was more US-oriented and less capable of performing this new role . |