Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of women registered has increased from 18 per cent . |
| 2 | Difficult though it is to evaluate , the evidence of the receptivity to the portrayal of Hitler 's image which we have examined has pointed to seven significant bases of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ . |
| 3 | The number of in-patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 4 | The number of in- patients treated has increased by one point two million . |
| 5 | The design used got started in 1988 and took five years to get a full multi-processor in such a small package . |
| 6 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 7 | Many law firms have already laid off employees : a large Midlands firm has got rid of 35 ; a firm in East Anglia is about to shed some conveyancing staff ; and the Law Society 's Young Solicitors Group has set up a helpline to provide counselling and advice for young lawyers who have been made redundant . |
| 8 | But today desire has become incorporated as one element in a life 's work . |
| 9 | As matters stand , some 27.4 per cent of my sexuality is of the Grecian or musical persuasion ; 71.6 prefers a quiet evening in with nothing more erotic than a gardening magazine and a steaming mug of Mr Horlicks 's malted beverage , whilst the remaining one per cent has become attached to one of Miss Esther Rantzen 's saucy root vegetables . |
| 10 | In later years , when explaining how he got to Cape Town , John always mentioned having appeared in one or two small parts when the ballet from the Cape came to Johannesburg . |
| 11 | In Iran Marian Firouz , a writer and translator in her mid-70s , has remained imprisoned since 1983 for her non-violent political activities . |
| 12 | If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible . |
| 13 | The study found that the number of passengers on the buses had increased by 3 per cent over 10 years when it might be expected to have declined by 25 per cent , because of changes in population , employment and the rise in car ownership . |
| 14 | There are five million people out of work and in 1995 this figure is expected to have risen to six and a half million . |
| 15 | As was said by Staughton LJ in United Bank of Kuwait Ltd v Hammond [ 1988 ] 1 WLR 1051 , advising that older judicial authorities should be treated with a degree of caution : the work that solicitors do can be expected to have changed since 1888 ; it has changed in recent times and is changing now . |
| 16 | The financial circumstances of the college also appear to have improved since 1988 when it was forced into an underfunded merger with Bedford College , and the state of the building does not seem to require the sum of £10.5 million originally put to the Commissioners . |
| 17 | Membership of the PDS was reported to have declined from 2,400,000 in 1989 to 250,000 in May 1991 . |
| 18 | Several thousand Estonians were reported to have demonstrated on 23 August , the date of the pact 's signature ; still larger numbers , between 7,000 and 10,000 , were reported to have demonstrated in Latvia ( where substantial demonstrations also occurred in June 1987 to commemorate those who had been deported from the republic by the Soviet authorities in 1941 ) . |
| 19 | In another incident up to 80 Croatian police officers and at least 35 civilians were reported to have died on 1 August in the village of Dalj in Slavonia . |
| 20 | Pupils will now be tested when they are deemed to have moved from one stage to another and the teacher will be free to determine when this is the case . |
| 21 | We found that the number of visits that on average that they can do has increased by four or five hundred per cent . |
| 22 | The group said it had continued to expand its stake in a pharmaceuticals market estimated to have increased by 11 to 12 per cent in 1992 . |
| 23 | This stage of the palaver seemed to have ended with four soldiers dead , the capital under curfew and the general back in his palace . |
| 24 | The alleged plot was said to have consisted of five so far unsolved supermarket killings in which 28 people died and which were apparently carried out by a clandestine right-wing movement to discredit the state [ see also p. 34893 ] . |
| 25 | At Hardington in Somerset there are only a few traces of the village , which is said to have gone by 1584 , but until recently there were very fine earthworks of a seventeenth-century garden landscape , with terraces , tree mounds , and park banks . |
| 26 | Many Roman Catholics were among the victims and the inflow of Irish American money is said to have slumped by two-thirds almost immediately . |
| 27 | He is said to have served for twenty-five years as rector of the cathedral fabric fund and is undoubtedly found in association with the cathedral 's masons and workshops . |
| 28 | Speaking from the basilica on the site where the Virgin was said to have appeared in 1917 , he told a crowd of thousands that the Virgin was to be thanked for " leading nations towards liberty " — interpreted as a reference to the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe . |
| 29 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
| 30 | About 70,000 vehicles are alleged to have been so financed last year and , by December , this figure was said to have risen to 17,000 a month at $25,000 ( £14,200 ) per vehicle . |