Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reforestation programme , targeting to plant 7.5 million trees over a seven year period , is on its way . |
| 2 | In 1992-93 , Trainload Freight expected to carry 18.35 million tonnes of freight for PowerGen , but that figure is now likely to be as high as 19.6 million tonnes . |
| 3 | After keeping the first appointment she failed to attend two further treatment sessions , telephoning the therapist after the second to say she felt better . |
| 4 | He also admitted breaching two suspended jail sentences . |
| 5 | Hampstead Unionists agreed to support one such fund by levying a guinea subscription from all members of their Executive Committee — a decision that says much about the composition of the Executive Committee itself . |
| 6 | Half-expecting it to be the milkman , she was mildly irritated to see two young men standing on the steps outside . |
| 7 | That system was both perceived and expected to perform three related functions : through election to the House of Commons it was expected to produce a government ; through a purportedly democratic franchise and mode of election , it was expected to confer legitimacy upon the government to govern , subject to the approval of Parliament ; and , through facilitating a choice between parties propounding specific programs , it was expected to influence public policy , the party in government carrying through the promises embodies in its election manifesto . |
| 8 | Interestingly , base substitutions made to obtain two G-C basepairs at positions 10–25 and 11–24 in the D-stem ( a207 ) increased the yield of Ψ40 with more than 3 times compared to the situation in wt-like tRNA Asp ( mutant a ) . |
| 9 | The showpiece projects are the Concord Centre and Glass City expected to attract two million visitors and 2,000 jobs . |
| 10 | The administration of US President George Bush planned to accept 50,000 Soviet refugees in fiscal 1990 ( which began on Oct 1 , 1989 ) and another 30,000 on a " parole basis " , that is , without state financial support . |
| 11 | Nova Scotia became the first province to break the compact earlier this year when it agreed to provide 16 infected individuals with a non-taxable $30,000 per year until they die , and to reimburse the cost of drugs , most of which are not covered by Medicare . |
| 12 | Aircraft Specialties of Mesa , Arizona , agreed to provide five B–17 air tankers for the filming . |
| 13 | In 1966 the Labour Government agreed to establish two similar committees to examine specific areas of policy-making and administration — science and technology and agriculture . |
| 14 | This new date is selling fast , so if you want to see two fine comedians in one evening , snap up the chance as soon as you can . |
| 15 | Cuvier tried to evade one disturbing implication of extinction by linking the phenomenon to his theory of catastrophic geological changes . |
| 16 | CANADA 's Telidon viewdata system has received two big boosts . |
| 17 | In view of its excellent track record , it 's not surprising that Campbell Freight Agencies Limited has received four prestigious awards within the past three years … two , presented by the UK Institute of Freight Forwarders , for being ‘ Freight Forwarder of the Year ’ and two ‘ Link ’ charity awards , presented by British Midland , commending the company for organising free shipments of essential foods and goods to Ethiopia . |
| 18 | Since the campaign was launched on ‘ Feedback ’ , the BBC has received thirty-nine critical calls . |
| 19 | Since its launch last May Convex has received 25 firm orders for the C3800 , which is the first computer to use GaAs instead of silicon chips . |
| 20 | They were often accompanied on such excursions by Christopher Sykes , who has recalled one wet Saturday afternoon when , in the Hospital gardens , they watched a football match between the Marylebone dustmen and the Chelsea Municipal Maintenance Staff : " The forlorn scene fascinated Eliot and in spite of the cold and the drizzle he stayed and watched for several minutes " . |
| 21 | Well Worth Reading , the fiction promotion scheme for libraries , has developed two new promotions . |
| 22 | The summary document or record which young people take with them when leaving school or college will need to include two main components : |
| 23 | The population of the town numbered about 5,000 and the House of Industry was designed to accommodate two hundred persons ; men , women and children . |
| 24 | The mower is lifted using two hydraulic rams which raise the drums and wheels in sequence to give a ground clearance of 450mm ( 18in ) . |
| 25 | The helicopter , which covers six counties , has flown four hundred missions and saved at least twenty lives in the last year . |
| 26 | * The government has designated four more wetlands under the Ramsar Convention : Chippenham Fen , Cambridgeshire ; the Exe Estuary , Devon ; Lindisfarne , Northumberland ; and Old Hall Marshes , Essex . |
| 27 | The Act has designated 12 new wilderness areas in northern Finnish Lapland , which consist mainly of tundra and cover 1.5 million hectares . |
| 28 | Currently , the Royal Navy is expected to carry 512 nuclear warheads on its Trident fleet . |
| 29 | Imms ( 1939 , 1940 ) has distinguished two main types of antennae . |
| 30 | It is well known that speakers of French have open to them a number of different ways of forming interrogatives ; for example , Coveney ( 1986 ) has distinguished five different variants of the wh interrogative , two of which are [ SVQ ] and [ QSV ] . |