Example sentences of "[noun] and [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 2 | Curated by Meg O'Rourke and continuing until 28 April the show includes work by , among others , Dennis Ashbaugh , Jacqueline Humphries , Sean Scully , Suzan Etkin , Stephen Westfall , Ricardo d'Oliveira , Wolfgang Staehle and Karin Sander . |
| 3 | During the decade 1970–80 , serious crimes recorded by the police increased for nearly every category : violence against the person rose by 136 per cent , burglary by 44 per cent , robbery by 138 per cent , theft and handling by 54 per cent and fraud and forgery by 18 per cent . |
| 4 | So including current and lagged total money growth in the output equation and testing the null hypothesis that the coefficients on these variables are all zero is exactly equivalent to including current and lagged predictable components of money growth in the output equation and testing for zero coefficients on these variables . |
| 5 | Lot number sixty seven Lot sixty seven is another one there we are , that one showing for you a hundred pounds for this , and ten , twenty , at one hundred and thirty , forty one hundred and forty is bid and selling for one hundred and forty pounds , anybody else at one for one fifty , one sixty going on sir ? |
| 6 | Lot number seventy one Lot number seventy one seventy one there 's the stele showing there 's the carving showing there for a hundred and fifty pounds , at one fifty , one sixty , one seventy , at one hundred and seventy pounds , at one eighty offered , one ninety , two hundred now two hundred is bid and selling for two hundred , you all done ? |
| 7 | Lot number thirty four Lot number thirty four the okimono there 's the okimono showing eighty pounds for this one is offered , at eighty pounds I 've got in two places , at eighty pounds , eighty five in the centre , at eighty five is bid and selling for eighty five it 's yours sir at eighty five , ninety to my right , ninety five going on sir ? |
| 8 | A double extrapolation is then carried out , as shown in figure 9.9 , by joining all points of equal concentration and extrapolating to zero angle , and then all points measured at equal angles and extrapolating these to zero concentration . |
| 9 | Nicky was gasping , throwing Maria and Luke a quick apologetic glance and standing on one leg to examine an elegant leather shoe as the door closed . |
| 10 | Thus the number of 17p stamps which could be bought for a pound could be obtained by converting the pound to 100p and dividing by 17 . |
| 11 | Dumped out of the Pilkington Cup last Saturday and sweating on four points , coach Keith Richardson admitted : ‘ This is a desperate time for the club , one where we have lost 12 players before the season started and too many games for comfort . |
| 12 | The solidarity of the community is strengthened … by a shared history of living and working in one place over a long period of time … . |
| 13 | The free and protein bound leucine in the tissue biopsies were separated by pulverising the frozen tissue , homogenising in 0.2 M HClO 4 at 4°C and centrifuging at 2800 g for 20 minutes . |
| 14 | John Lees , who often joins variously shaped pieces of paper to create the fields on which he applies his artfully-smudged and flickering drawings , shows new pencil and ink works ( along with new oil paintings ) at Hirschl & Adler , opening 18 February and continuing through 20 March . |
| 15 | It will also pay particular attention to the construction of expertise and the quality of comprehension of policy issues through focussing on the various policy communities and concentrating on three areas : urban air pollution , estuarine and coastal water quality and soil contamination . |
| 16 | And for those you need only apply to Berry-Hill where , beginning 6 May and lasting until 26 June , ‘ The Apple of America ’ gathers together bushels and bushels of nineteenth-century paintings on the subject of America 's favourite fruit and New York City 's informal symbol . |
| 17 | He was always ready to flout the company 's regulations , failing to register two alternative versions of his new sterling ( Britannia ) mark , and was criticized by the company for failing to submit plate for assay and hallmarking in 1717 . |
| 18 | the cabinet , there it is showing on the left-hand wall there , Lot number ninety five is showing for a hundred pounds , at one hundred and ten , twenty at one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and thirty , forty , fifty , sixty one seventy for the lady sir one eighty standing one ninety two hundred , two twenty for the lady two hundred and twenty , two forty two sixty two hundred and sixty and it 's still with the lady and selling for two hundred and sixty pounds eight forty , thank you , two sixty . |
| 19 | The Cornmill 's central feature is a giant glazed atrium spanning almost ninety feet and consisting of 258 panes of glass . |
| 20 | Rotating through 180 degrees would produce a pattern for knitting from top to bottom and rotating through 45 degrees would produce a pattern for a diagonal or bias knit . |
| 21 | Extracranial cardiovascular activity was suggested by increases in blood pressure of 12/10 mm Hg observed 10 min after subcutaneous sumatriptan and lasting for 30–60 min . |
| 22 | The harbour at this time was formed on the bed of the ‘ Water to Leith ’ , a small stream with its source in the Pentland Hills and flowing for thirteen miles or so through Edinburgh and Leith into the Firth of Forth at this point . |
| 23 | LVTA is the result of years of lobbying by the SMMT on behalf of its Specialist Car Manufacturers ' Group , chaired by Caterham 's Graham Nearn and consisting of seven companies which number Marcos , Westfield , JBA and Jago Automotive — all kit car makers — among them . |
| 24 | Holden , 48 , of Lyme Close , Knowsley , was given a nine-month sentence , suspended for two years , after admitting three specimen theft offences and asking for 48 others , spanning six months , to be considered . |
| 25 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 26 | Intrajejunally administered prostaglandin E 1 at a dose of 0.9 µg/kg/min induced marked secretion of water and electrolytes beginning after 30 minutes and ending within 60 minutes after prostaglandin infusion . |
| 27 | British and German inflation rates have moved together , but the German economy is growing at a rate of 3.5 per cent. , while the British economy is in recession and shrinking by 2.5 per cent . |
| 28 | He published two books , Weather Charts and Storm Warnings ( 1876 ) and Elementary Meteorology ( 1883 ) , the latter becoming a standard text and running into nine editions . |
| 29 | Yesterday she was given a two year probation and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation , after admitting three specimen charges amounting to £1,252 and asking for 27 similar offences to be taken into account . |
| 30 | With the gale and hail at his back , Bradford and Bingley 's flyhalf Peter Rutledge scored all their points in the first half , converting his own try and succeeding with four penalty goals . |