Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest of the Amirantes group of islands , Des Roches is situated 120 miles southwest of Mahe and just under an hour by plane . |
| 2 | ALACTEL LAUNCHES MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM FOR UK FREIGHT SERVICES |
| 3 | The L.C.C 's system predominated , using odd numbers north of the Thames and even numbers to the south , with pairs of even numbers for routes making the loop round the Embankment . |
| 4 | Bread and got some sausages bit of erm boiled ham which you can pick up on the way through |
| 5 | This was not to say that he did n't spend time with the army , lending vigorous help as the trains of oxen dragged the batteries into position , and the wagonloads of food and fodder , weapons and powder bumped fifty miles south-east from Kyrenia to where Famagusta lay , lodged in its bay , divided by ninety broad sea miles from Syria . |
| 6 | Mark Twain , the American writer , found European trains primitive after his native ones : ‘ The conductor locks you in when the train starts ; there is no water to drink in the car , there is no heating apparatus … they have not that culmination of all charity and human kindness , a sleeping car … ’ |
| 7 | While Whitman established his mission among the Cayuse , the Spaldings ventured 120 miles east to Lapwai , ‘ Place of Butterflies ’ , on the Clearwater , where their mission grew slowly . |
| 8 | The warmth of his reception stemmed in part from a pledge , based on recent spending negotiations with Norman Lamont , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury , to increase uniformed police manpower by a further 1,100 next year . |
| 9 | let's seal it , now you want some goats cheese with that , that 's what you 'll need , lying on the beach at midnight going to sleep in your sleeping bag , with a bottle of that and your goats cheese |
| 10 | The tranquil village of Low Catton lies six miles east of York on the east bank of the river Derwent . |
| 11 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 12 | This starts six feet right of Call to Arms . |
| 13 | You 'll also enjoy three nights accommodation with bed and breakfast in the Hotel Stadt Berlin . |
| 14 | Business travellers in Wichita , Kansas , often save $300 by driving three hours south to Tulsa , in Oklahoma , and catching a flight to Dallas . |
| 15 | Another fishing boat tried to tow the Glenmore back to port in rough seas , but it finally sank ninety miles east of Orkney . |
| 16 | came from and has 31 years experience of quality and operations from various posts in the company . |
| 17 | The school is located 5 minutes walk from Plaza Cataluna which is the hub of the city 's communication system ( metro , bus , etc. ) ; it is within easy walking distance of the Ramblas and the medieval quarter . |
| 18 | Jet Training consisted of an intensive two month course which provided sixteen hours simulation at FSI 's LaGuardia facility , followed by twenty-five hours flight time from Teterboro in JAL 's three Falcons ( 282 , 284 and 290 ) . |
| 19 | The director of Knossos 2000 , Dr Ken Wardle , who has many years experience of digging in Greece and who has just completed the excavation of the prehistoric settlement of Assiros Toumba in Macedonia , commenting on the importance of the project , told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Apart from the potential of the site itself , the project will provide an opportunity to focus research on the history and archaeology of Roman provincial cities in Greece , which have largely been neglected in favour of those of the Classical and Hellenistic periods ’ . |
| 20 | It lies 3 degrees north of Gamma Sagittæ , and this is the best way to find it ; it is between Gamma Sagittæ and the dim 14 Vulpeculæ ( 5.7 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We either dig up the countryside to meet growing aggregates consumption on roads , buildings and other major civil engineering projects , or take a decisive step towards a more sustainable society ’ . |
| 22 | Already , Cohen has isolated more than a thousand contigs , each containing an average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes average of 15 yeast artificial chromosomes ( YACs ) and covering more than 70 per cent of the genome , while the number of markers on the map that Weissenbach and his colleagues reported last year has since been more than doubled and is set shortly to double again . |
| 23 | A Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society , Paul Damari has 25 years experience of the weather business , and his down-to-earth , common-sense approach makes him a welcome change to the distant and expensive alternative , the Met Office . |
| 24 | Gozo island lies five miles NW of Malta . |
| 25 | Tourism dominates the economy of the 12,000-strong British colony , which lies 27 miles south-west of Antigua . |
| 26 | He can buy a large tube of Autumnola , the 2-in-1 action cream which not only reduces the risk of bruising to a minimum , but has anti-toxic qualities proof against the most virulent poisoning from autumnal pests . ’ |
| 27 | Erm these states had come together voluntarily in seventeen eighty seven er to secure common aims protection against foreigners , Indians er economic aims , and these aims bound them together , common purposes and so on , but was the United States a permanent union ? |
| 28 | With the railway built just yards north of the crossroads , this corner soon became a popular request stop . |
| 29 | If the company has any securities convertible into or warrants or options to subscribe for , equity share capital then the buy-back must be sanctioned by extraordinary resolutions at separate class meetings of such holders . |
| 30 | The block lies within the Con Son Basin and is located 15 kms north of the 500 million barrel Dai Hung oilfield for which PetroVietnam is currently evaluating international bids to bring on production . |