Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 2 | It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures . |
| 3 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 4 | Faced with rapidly-depleting timber resources , the Bangladesh government has announced plans to plant 85 million trees this year . |
| 5 | ‘ The decision to include all four centres — previously we have concentrated on two on an annual basis — is designed to enable companies to explore and maximise opportunities throughout the region over the 10 day period . ’ |
| 6 | He now asked Manners why the first and second prize-winners in the competition had been passed over and Scott appointed , and requested that MPs should be given the opportunity to see all three designs displayed together before any further steps |
| 7 | I had the opportunity to see several hundred children during the last month . |
| 8 | The tide retreats several hundred yards during Springs uncovering large shellfish and bait beds along the entire venue . |
| 9 | It was common for Western Christians of the Middle Ages to see these two friends of Jesus as the first exponents of the active and contemplative life respectively . |
| 10 | However , the story starts twenty seven years ago when Anne Marie 's mother Therese worked as a P.A. to Father Benjamin Winterborne at the time of the opening of the chaplaincy centre at Manchester University . |
| 11 | ‘ Both Dame Catherine and the porter mentioned these two corpses being found in the wood which lies between the priory and the palace . |
| 12 | The Appendix needs another eight feet to be climbable , so I decide to leave it a week . |
| 13 | From the cross of the two pure strains , and experimental removal of caps in unhygienic hives , Rothenbuhler found all four kinds . |
| 14 | Literary fiction has D M Thomas ' Flying in to Love ( Sceptre ) and Beryl Bainbridge with The Birthday Boys ( Penguin ) . |
| 15 | The Duchess mentioned another half-dozen girls , all eligible and nobly born , but Lord John was not listening . |
| 16 | Euro Disney at present has some 36 rides and attractions , compared with 45 for the Magic Kingdom in Florida and 53 at Disneyland in California . |
| 17 | On the same day HUD Secretary Jack Kemp suspended all 1989 funding for the housing programme . |
| 18 | The struggle involved some 18 opposition groups in all , most arms of the state — the IDA , IIRS , local authorities , An Bord Pleanala , both ordinary , decent and political police — politicians , trade unions , international experts and rank and file workers . |
| 19 | RADICAL proposals to attract two million visitors and 2,000 jobs to the new city of Sunderland were revealed yesterday . |
| 20 | To resolve this , the execution time required by each algorithm to process all three documents was measured , and the result is shown in Figure 3.3 . |
| 21 | About 100 students from Zimbabwe University carried placards denouncing Dr Richard Gladwell McGown who was charged in a Harare court last week in connection with experiments in pain control which authorities say killed five patients . |
| 22 | 20th Century-Fox has some 10,000 hours of Fox-Movietone Newsreel film in its library much of which is of interest to twentieth-century historians . |
| 23 | The cDNA sequence presented ends where the genomic sequence ( unpublished data ) diverges ; the DN10 cDNA clone contains another 547 nucleotides that represent a co-ligated cDNA derived from an unrelated non-chromosome-15 locus ( data not shown ) . |
| 24 | I wonder what it is like , living in a building built five hundred years ago ? ’ |
| 25 | The charity planned to have sponsored groups climbing all 277 Munros — but organisers believe Beinn Sgulaird was missed out . |
| 26 | Germany has sixty five percent and it is falling and France sixty percent and now also falling . |
| 27 | With constant AC and MC equal to 5 , a competitive industry produces 1 million output units . |
| 28 | The difference in recognition memory-test performance between subjects given these two forms of verbal pre-training has been amply confirmed in several other experiments ( e.g. Ellis , Bessemer , Devine and Tafton 1962 ; Ellis and Feuge , Long and Pegram 1964 ) . |
| 29 | The Training Agency is funding 30 Compacts nationally ; a maximum of £100,000 a year over 4 years is available to those Compacts submitting acceptable 4 year plans . |
| 30 | In his study Sir Richard asked all 34,000 doctors in Britain what they smoked and then began to monitor the causes of death of those doctors . |