Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah but I do n't want to lose seventy grand 's worth of business . |
| 2 | They will also want to see 2,500 voting papers from another NUS election which mysteriously turned up seven years after they should have been destroyed . |
| 3 | So you 're gon na want to interview forty percent right ? |
| 4 | I do n't want to hold up this alteration , and I , like Mr , do n't want to wait three years for a decision . |
| 5 | Honours students may opt to include two literature in translation courses in their curriculum . |
| 6 | The short explanation , if you want to know why elephant seals keep er an even sex ratio and not a one to ten sex ratio , even though only one male in every ten mates , is that every male that does mate has ten times more reproductive success than those that do n't . |
| 7 | The function definition would then look something like this : In this case , to use the function we would need to pass 2 parameters . |
| 8 | Each product that is sold will earn a gross profit margin of £20 , and so the company would need to sell 10,000 units to break even . |
| 9 | Some pimpled boy whose name she did n't know put one finger coyly beneath his chin and snickered , ‘ Oh , look , she 's blushing . ’ |
| 10 | It has been predicted that you 'll only need to buy one box , and that install routines will work out which processor the machine is based on and do whatever 's necessary to make the program work . |
| 11 | Folivores ( leaf-eaters ) may satisfy their sodium requirement only by consuming soil or water plants , while animals like litter-feeding cockroaches in Amazonia would need to consume 30–40 times their energy requirement of litter to satisfy their phosphorus needs : in fact they eat dead animals as well . |
| 12 | To obtain your recommended daily intake of fibre , approx. 30g , you would need to consume 1,000 calories worth of brown bread , 3,000 calories of white bread , 1,400 calories of corn/maize , 1,400 calories of brown or white rice , 1,100 calories of root vegetables , 600 calories of pulses , 2,000 calories of peanuts , 300 calories of green vegetables , or 600 calories of fruit . |
| 13 | A fridge would need to last 15 years , and an iron for 12 . |
| 14 | He had calculated , however , that he would need to give three poetry readings in order to cover his expenses on this visit : he did only the amount that was strictly necessary , since the Inland Revenue had a habit of taking much of any extra income he earned . |
| 15 | If any reporters were to be poached from other papers , they would mostly need to give three months ' notice . |
| 16 | I should like to see you win having one ticket cos you 've patronised us . |
| 17 | I do so enjoy introducing one friend to another . ’ |
| 18 | Well how much would I need to make one tonne ? |
| 19 | For example information about prices can , in certain circumstances , constitute a business secret : see the discussion in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 and Lansing Linde Ltd v Kerr [ 1991 ] 1 All ER 418. 2 Express duties once employment has ended By including express restrictive covenants in an employment contract an employer will seek to achieve three goals once employment is over : ( a ) to prevent the ex-employee canvassing orders from the employer 's customers ; ( b ) to prevent the ex-employee competing with his business ( usually within a defined geographical area ) ; ( c ) to prevent the ex-employee from using/disclosing any legitimate business secrets . |
| 20 | For example , to describe the lexicon , morphology and syntax of Javanese one would need to distinguish three levels of respect to addressees and two levels of respect to referents ( Geertz , 1960 ; Comrie , 1979b ) ; to describe the particles of a number of South American Indian languages one would need to distinguish between sentences that are central versus those that are peripheral to the telling of a story ( Longacre , 1976a ) ; to describe the third person pronouns of Tunica one would need to distinguish not only the sex of the referent , but also the sex of the addressee ( so there would be two words for " she " depending on whether one is speaking to a man or a woman ; Haas , 1964 ) , while in some Australian languages the pronouns encode the moiety or section ( kinship division ) of the referent , or the kinship relation between referents ( e.g. there are sometimes two words one of which means " you-dual of the same moiety " and another " you-dual in different moieties from each other " ; Dixon , 1980 : 2-3 ; Heath et al. |
| 21 | Even if they were ectotherms , a 20-ton creature would need to produce 557 kilocalories per hour . |
| 22 | As it is , only a third of the pups will survive to become one year olds and females are only mature sexually after five years with the males usually holding territories after ten years . |
| 23 | J-registered Cavalier SRi saloons and hatches are good value at auction and bidders can expect to secure 1992 cars with under 10,000 miles from company and fleet sources for around £8250 . |
| 24 | In cotton weaving rates in 1808 had fallen so low that weavers were reported to be working upwards of fifteen hours , even to twenty , but as an employer remarked it was an impossible situation to sustain and a man would not choose to work eighteen hours if he could live from the labour of twelve . |
| 25 | In particular , one would expect to find two things . |
| 26 | Genomic DNA was amplified using the polymerase chain reaction with primers to detect intragenic RsaI and SspI restriction enzyme polymorphic sites and a CA repeat found 30–70 Kb downstream from the DP2.5 APC gene . |
| 27 | ( 7.3 ) unc Divergence in one operand of a PAR may give rise to divergence in the complete construct , since an implementation may choose to run one argument until it can proceed no further before running another . |
| 28 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 29 | In general , women are healthier and live longer than ever before , indeed on average they can expect to live 5 years longer than men . |
| 30 | A Japanese boy could now expect to live 75 years , three years longer than a boy born in England or Wales . |