Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I have n't done anything — except be an absolute misery , ’ she added honestly as she realised for perhaps the first time what a wet blanket she had been . |
| 2 | Consider financial services , for example , which already account for nearly a third of GDP . |
| 3 | The police account for over a third of these specific grants . |
| 4 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 5 | These account for around a fifth of live births in this group of handicaps , but due to the limited life-expectancy , they are not present in the community . |
| 6 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 7 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 8 | Voluntary schools in England account for about a third of primary schools and a fifth of secondary schools ( see Figure 6.9 ) . |
| 9 | Apparently many members are voted in only the second or third time round and he too could have waited quietly to be elected next time . |
| 10 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 11 | Alexandra suddenly found she was crying , great gulping sobs , tears splashing down on to the kitchen counter , an aching sense of something very precious which she had discarded without even a second glance . |
| 12 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 13 | It seems its very high speeds are only achieved occasionally , when pursuing food or escaping , and it normally cruises at about a third or a half of its rapid dashes . |
| 14 | Exports , at Z$1.5 billion , would fall by nearly a third . |
| 15 | THE North American arm of BMW , the German motor manufacturer , announced yesterday that sales in March rose by nearly a fifth from the same month last year to 5,500 cars . |
| 16 | Last year it made a FFr10m ( $1.9m ) net profit on sales of FFr175m , and the number of visitors rose by almost a third , to 1.3m . |
| 17 | But after four weeks of mass meditation , the rate apparently dropped by nearly a third . |
| 18 | By now she was really yelling , letting her natural feelings show for perhaps the first time in her conscious life . |
| 19 | The pie committee saw all their stipulations were met but attempts to stop it were made until almost the last minute . |
| 20 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 21 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 22 | So I mean think about it as long term planning , and certainly for those under er sixty the long term becomes extremely long term because er you know you 're looking at perhaps a third of your life er which is er still to be accounted for . |
| 23 | In corporate finance you may get a call at 4pm and have to prepare papers for a crucial business meeting at 9am the next morning . |
| 24 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act was passed in New Zealand in 1978 , and reflected a growing public awareness of the need to provide for the conservation of the country 's marine mammals , which had been ruthlessly slaughtered during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 25 | The world mile record holder , racing for only the second time since recovering from the groin injury which threatened to ruin his Olympic hopes , ran the third stage for Britain in the 4 x 1500 metres relay . |
| 26 | The British aircraft industry was expected to shrink to only a fifth of its existing size , giving the USA an enormous head start . |
| 27 | Without submarine work , Rosyth would run at only a third of capacity for its MoD work . ’ |
| 28 | With the Arkansas governor a Rhodes Scholar at the university in 1968-69 looking all set for victory , it meant the US would become at least the 10th nation this century to boast a leader taught at the city of the dreaming spires . |
| 29 | I think we shall have to look at just the last two years . ’ |
| 30 | The money being transferred from the Department of Social Security to Nottinghamshire for buying residential care will fall short of the amount needed by almost a fifth . |