Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the summer term I weighed six stone one pound . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the O-level summer term I weighed eight stone three pounds and , if I was pleased at having lost two pounds , I certainly did n't say so . |
| 3 | Through the study of line we can identify the characteristics which differentiate one School from another perhaps not the hands , but the Schools certainly . |
| 4 | The three right-angled triangles below are simply triangles which have one angle of 90° Can you see which triangle is also isosceles ? |
| 5 | Mr. D. B. Cassie , the Head of Chemistry , left after 27 years in the School , having started with a department which comprised one laboratory and half a lecture room ( shared with Physics ) . |
| 6 | It is this pattern of syntactic relationships which governs one type of semantic interaction . |
| 7 | ‘ The work goes on , one week like another , and pretty incessant until Friday night , and then the break which gives one time to get one 's breath again , ’ he wrote to his mother two months after becoming Prime Minister . |
| 8 | The deal which covers nine colour pages for Nike Cross Trainers in six of the title 's editions , was put together despite the absence of a formal pan-European rate card and that Cosmo is published by independents in three of the countries . |
| 9 | Not only that , but they struck up a partnership which produced thirty championship races in six seasons . |
| 10 | NCp7 is a highly basic protein which contains two zinc fingers of the form Cys-X 2 -Cys-X 4 -His-X 4 -Cys ( CCHC ) flanked by regions rich in basic residues ( 3–4 ) . |
| 11 | Sometimes , Henry thought , it would be kindness itself to rise one night between three and four when the suburb slept and drag a sharp stone across the Mitsubishi 's flanks . |
| 12 | Its interior used some of the finest craftsmen of the day , not least the woodcarver Grinling Gibbons who decorated one room with a welter of natural images . |
| 13 | On each card she wrote one task that had to be performed , and filed them in sections . |
| 14 | What makes the situation especially difficult in the case of homosexuality is that there are those who arm their homophobia by ignoring the first dimension described above — an exile which generates critique — insisting only on the second — the exile who flees one kind of discrimination only to reproduce others , and who is seen to do so in virtue of the alleged ‘ predatory ’ nature of the homosexual desire , now quintessentially defined as a desire to exploit the disadvantaged . |
| 15 | Ellen , usually so quick with a scornful reply , just stood and stared at the elegant stranger who stopped one pace away from her , took her hand , then bowed above her fingers . |
| 16 | In fact their performance was slightly better than a control group of subjects who had one night 's sleep deprivation with no prior selective deprivation . |
| 17 | In order to realise this new imperative we need three paradigm shifts in our thinking . |
| 18 | Like chemist and physicist we hope one day to be able to find out whether our icons are truly representative of reality . |
| 19 | On return to Hungary we stopped one night in Satu Mare , the last big frontier town in Rumania . |
| 20 | On the rural side he had 180 tenant farmers , each with between 50 and 130 acres apiece ; and just as the Prince wanted the goodwill of his urban tenants , so too in the country . |
| 21 | In 1908 however when Mr. Vernon S. Lovell presented his trophy it comprised two pewter quart pots and two George III candlesticks to be played for in a bogey handicap competition . |
| 22 | With a growled exclamation against her lips he tightened one hand in the silky blonde strands , and slid the other down to trace lightly the hollow at the base of her throat , then lower to skim the striped silk of her blouse over the swell of her breasts , an expert , fleeting exploration which drew a gasp of reaction from her yet left her taut and shivering in frustrated anger … |
| 23 | Furthermore , as cogently argued by Finkelstein ( 1980 ) , Goffman , in borrowing the concept of stigma from ancient Greece , where it referred to ‘ a bodily sign … cut or burned into the body and advertising that the bearer was a slave ’ ( Goffman , 1963 , p. 19 ) chooses to interpret its meaning as one of ‘ blemish and ritual pollution ’ rather than of the power and inequality which allowed one person to be a slaveholder and compelled another to be a slave . |
| 24 | He applauds ICI 's harnessing of nature in reed beds to dispose of soluble pollutants and the technology introduced at Billingham and Wilton which enables 24 hour monitoring of liquid effluents . |
| 25 | The Chelsea defender was stretchered off the Anfield turf on September 5 following a challenge with the former Reds ' striker , suffering cruciate ligament damage which required one operation , with further surgery likely . |
| 26 | During December of 1847 it was decided that the inhabitants deserved toilets and Joseph Braithwaite was given the contract which included 10 peat houses . |
| 27 | By 1086 , Droitwich salt was being widely distributed over the Midlands ; King William himself had eighty-five salt pans here . |
| 28 | All categories will compete in the same field over a course which includes two water splashes . |
| 29 | A detail from the mark of service of John-Harrison which includes 22 carat gold leaf detailing . |
| 30 | As I walked round observing the work I spotted one arrangement that I had not drawn . |