Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meetings of the Association helped both to raise the consciousness of scientists and also to enforce some specialization : members expected to attend only one of the sections . |
| 2 | SAVAGE GROUP , the USM quoted DIY retail chain , has dismissed almost 200 of its 1,000 UK staff in the face of a slump that cut earnings per share by a third . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , Next has plucked up one of Sun 's men , hiring Bob Lawton , an Interactive Systems Corp legacy , away from Solaris-on-Intel product marketing to be its NextStep 80486 program manager , a newly created position . |
| 4 | And the Lockerbie Enquiry has heard how seventeen of the two hundred and seventy victims on board have never been found . |
| 5 | The trial of two drivers alleged to have caused the death of five young people has heard how one of the cars was travelling at ninety-six miles an hour shortly before the fatal accident . |
| 6 | But there was a school of thought which advocated the claims of Andy Hayhurst , the Lancashire exile who has filled capably one of the opening-bat vacancies left by the departures of Cook and Roebuck . |
| 7 | It could never have been designed but for a revolution that has shaken up one of the world 's oldest industries |
| 8 | He has grunched up hundreds of humans and literally millions of Minpins . |
| 9 | Oxfordshire County Council has picked up two of this year 's Oxford Preservation Trust Environmental Awards ; the accolades are n't given lightly , and Moira Haines from the Preservation Trust says the County Council 's Awards are well deserved . |
| 10 | Until now , the museum has exhibited only 900 of the 32,000 works it actually owns , though 17,000 of these are drawings , videos and photographs which do not really qualify for permanent showing . |
| 11 | Mr Lloyd Webber has built up one of the country 's finest collections of Pre-Raphaelites , which is split between his 10,000-acre country estate in Berkshire and his home in Eaton Square . |
| 12 | Mike Curb , who has built up one of the most successful privately-owned record companies and recently moved his head office to Nashville from Los Angeles , thinks country is well on its way to being a big part of mainstream pop — making a nonsense of the current radio-station categories that still set country apart . |
| 13 | The beam needs to activate only two of the five cells on the staff . |
| 14 | USPCA officials today promised to track down hundreds of illegally-owned Pit Bull Terriers trained in Northern Ireland for big-money fights throughout the Republic and Britain . |
| 15 | Butcher has missed only one of England 's last 13 matches . |
| 16 | Table 3.3 Turnover in British government securities 1985 – 1991 Since the reform , the number of bargains per day has averaged nearly 3,300 with the average size of bargain reaching nearly £1½m in 1990 . |
| 17 | The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees . |
| 18 | The company wants to buy out 300 to 500 permanent , full-time administrative , production and engineering workers at the plant . |
| 19 | Our unique combination of skills has helped literally thousands of companies . |
| 20 | The world 's rarest horse , Equus przewalskii , is set to be reintroduced to its Mongolian homeland after a successful captive breeding programme , which has produced around 1,000 of the animals . |
| 21 | Well , if we look at it nationally , the Government has had as one of the planks of its policy the fact that it would quite like to reduce the power and influence and authority of Local Government , and increase the power and influence and authority of National Government , and opted out schools is one of the stands of that particular policy . |
| 22 | I guess she has used up one of her nine lives . |
| 23 | Tory Central Office knows it needs to win back hundreds of thousands of skilled working-class voters who are no longer sure quite what ( or who ) the Conservative Party is for . |
| 24 | It has sold over 300 of them , at around $70,000 each . |
| 25 | It has sold only two in the last four years . |
| 26 | WWF also hopes to control the amount of waste water flowing into the Danube ; pollution has wiped out 70 of the river 's 110 species of fish in the past 10 years and is threatening the ecosystem of the Black Sea . |
| 27 | My hon. Friend , in his inimitable style , has smoked out one of the hidden parts of the Opposition 's agenda . |
| 28 | The yen has stayed below 120 to the dollar in March after trading above 130 yen in March 1992 , a MOF official told a briefing after Japan 's February trade data was released . |
| 29 | Such has been the economic leverage of some groups that the role of government has become increasingly one of arbiter between the demands of groups rather than one of policy leader . |
| 30 | The Home Office says it has assessed only 560 of the total influx . |