Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These organizations all had less than ten QSEs working in R&D and tended to be those expected to do relatively little quantitative analysis . |
| 2 | It is important here to note that Rule 3 applies only if it is the seller who is to do the weighing , measuring , testing , etc . |
| 3 | Also the scheme will cost more than £15 million to set up as well as £17 million a year to run . |
| 4 | They heard the siren and were at the entrance ready to take over as soon as the boy was carried out of the ambulance . |
| 5 | It 's a bit dangerous driving round if his eyes are like that . |
| 6 | A raid on the Knightsbridge Safety Deposit Centre , London , in July 1987 netted more than £30 million and in November 1983 gold bullion worth £26 million was taken in the Brink's-Mat robbery at Heathrow . |
| 7 | A strike by Russian air traffic controllers on Aug. 15 lasted less than 24 hours before it collapsed . |
| 8 | The tabletop sale held in the village hall on February 15 raised more than £200 for the hall . |
| 9 | Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina both have more than 4 million inhabitants , and the other four regions ( Slovenia , Vojvodina , Kosovo and Macedonia ) are all slightly below 2 million . |
| 10 | Once Smith finally began to criticise union influence in the party and voiced his preference for an electoral college composed solely of MPs and individual members , Gould penned a letter to the Guardian promising to strengthen rather than loosen union links . |
| 11 | ‘ Depardieu junior made more than 15 trips to Holland recently , ’ said a police spokesman . |
| 12 | Light , large plants liable to fall over when dry |
| 13 | The properties of the sample — the density , optical clarity , modulus , and general mechanical response all change dramatically when crystallites are present and the polymer is no longer subject to the rules of linear visco-elasticity , which apply to amorphous polymers as outlined in Chapter 13 . |
| 14 | In response to the rise in violence the United Kingdom government on Feb. 10 ordered more than 500 extra troops to the province . |
| 15 | Nomura was further ordered on Oct. 8 to close more than 79 of its 153 domestic branches for a month , and to close for six weeks the six branches most heavily involved in the Tokyu incident . |
| 16 | It sought , as the Collor government had done , to open up the economy to foreign competition ( a new round of import tariff cuts scheduled for Oct. 1 went ahead as scheduled ) and would maintain existing privatization and deregulation programmes , although the involvement of Congress was now expected when the privatization of " strategic " companies was contemplated . |
| 17 | The usual pattern of summer high , with June , July and August each having more than 300 readers , and winter low , with less than 200 per month , was observed . |
| 18 | I have recovered marked N. lapillus within 30 cm of the release site after a year whilst Palmer ( 1984 ) found very few N. emarginata to move more than 10 m in the same time . |
| 19 | Setting the people free took longer than anticipated , but the first casualties were those identity cards and the Festival site , in 1952 . |
| 20 | Under the Finance Act 1948 , section 39(1) , directors and employees of bodies corporate earning more than £2,000 per annum were taxed under Schedule E on certain benefits in kind . |
| 21 | Read Paul Traynor 's article on page 6 to find out if GBFH will catch on . |
| 22 | A trade union movement anxious to extend rather than limit its influence would seek to regain those functions that the state has stripped from it . |
| 23 | The FT-SE 100 soared more than 25 points in early dealings taking the Index smoothly through 2,700 to 2713.4 , only 24 points below its record high . |
| 24 | Each proprietary brand of locator has its accompanying transmitter and it must be said that in all four instances these work better if you use the manufacturer 's pairing rather than permutating among the ones available . |
| 25 | Holding 's figures this time were 6 for 57 for match figures of 14 for 149 , the first West Indian to take more than twelve wickets in a Test . |
| 26 | International : Yeltsin 's government ready to stay on after compromise is agreed |
| 27 | Within this cohort 22 consumed more than 20 units of alcohol a week . |
| 28 | It is fair to speculate from archaeological finds that both John of Luxemburg and his son Charles IV lived here while Prague Castle was being made habitable . |
| 29 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 30 | Under the guise of meeting some of its obligations due to the Australian government under its ‘ partnership for development programme ’ — where foreign multi-nationals must reinvest some of their profits back into Australian industry — Sun Microsystems Inc has all but embraced its two technology pariahs , X-terminals and the Motif interface . |