Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [num] [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At peak times it is expected that two transfers a week between the archive and the Working-Set and vice versa will occur , and that material will be sent for composition twice a week during peak use . |
| 2 | The computer 's instruction set has evolved to provide the facilities required by the programmer , or to provide as one instruction a group of operations commonly found together . |
| 3 | Mr Goeldner thinks that one day the summer revenue of Colorado 's ski towns will exceed the winter one . |
| 4 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 5 | At the Red Lion , for example , Jim Stevens says that two barrels a week are pulled through his handpumps . |
| 6 | Mr Jarvis , who first gained the attention of Mrs Major through his readings of the Richmal Crompton 's William stories , says : ‘ The BBC have been after me to record some more William stories but I have decided that one series a year is quite enough . |
| 7 | Although the Temple was destroyed two thousand years ago , Jews hope that one day the Messiah will come , the Temple will be rebuilt , and Jews will be spiritually pure again . |
| 8 | Later during the trip I noticed that one morning the smell had n't registered with me . |
| 9 | The Malthusian of June 1914 estimated that 100,000 women a year took drugs to induce miscarriage , and there were suggestions at the time that there were few mothers of large families who had not attempted abortion . |
| 10 | This acquisition of competence can be seen as one way the worker defends himself against the control exercised over him by management . |
| 11 | ( Above the hill are two windmills , known as Jack and Jill , although built fifty years apart , one pre-dating and one post-dating the tunnel . ) |
| 12 | ‘ I can not believe that eight minutes every day of that sort of exercise will have any significant effect on fitness . ’ |
| 13 | Three times in twenty-four hours MacDonald tried to resign and three times the King dissuaded him . |
| 14 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 15 | Let us hope that one day the council will wake up and end all street trading . |
| 16 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 17 | I firmly believe that one day the features built into the houses at West Moor will become standard in all new homes , ’ says Wimpey Homes technical manager , Ken Maynard . |
| 18 | It appears that one Christmas a stockbroker searching for a present went into a pet shop in the Square Mile . |
| 19 | For example , the probable universal existence of tag-questions ( under a functional definition ) can perhaps be related to the universal operation of rules of turn-taking that allow as one option the ending of current speaker 's turn by a selection of a next speaker . |
| 20 | The Shah told " Moustachio " that he had avoided a bloodbath and he hoped that this would mean that one day the monarchy could again play a part in Iranian life . |
| 21 | If each ‘ flight ’ practices in this fashion once every six months , that means that 20 times a year Britain 's military forces will face a massive security problem . |
| 22 | Sometimes she was afraid that animals might take them , but when they went noisily along the path she still hoped that one day the man would be waiting there for them , beside the pile of stones . |
| 23 | She explained that three times a year 30 people , carefully chosen for their capabilities as team players as well as their business skills , will be put on a ‘ fast track ’ development programme lasting 11 weeks , out of office hours , eating into their weekends and challenging their endurance . |
| 24 | In some cases you will find that three times the drift on the outbound leg is too much , and the outbound heading comes out on the wrong side of the wind . |
| 25 | Sometimes , he said , he wondered if one year the cliff would topple completely , flattening the houses into a formless heap of rubble . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've got a wonderful little girl She knows how to cut and sew-one blouse every fifteen days-My little girl do n't eat very much — Just a mountain of bread a week ! ’ |