Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My horse is kept at a lovely yard 13 miles away : too far for many people 's choice , but the facilities and the people compensate for the 20 minute drive . |
| 2 | It was the same idealistic but essentially woolly vision of institutionalized divisions melting away as human contacts and common interests developed between the two entrenched camps . |
| 3 | He left school at sixteen and immersed himself in the Labour Party , canvassing for the 1966 general election . |
| 4 | But I , I mean through the nineteen fifties there is a reasonable measure of co-operation between the Russians and the Chinese and then from the beginning of the nineteen sixties and onwards there is conflict between Russia and China . |
| 5 | Allowing for the three major leakages of imports , savings and taxation , it has been calculated that for every £l paid to an employee in the UK , a further 80 pence of expenditure is generated throughout the economy . |
| 6 | ‘ A son , ’ he announced as the four young ones ran to his open arms . |
| 7 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 8 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 9 | Handbill for the 1900 Olympic match |
| 10 | The duke president of Youth Clubs UK , catering for a million young people said the scheme was long overdue . |
| 11 | This is a small and friendly bed and breakfast pension where you will be well looked after by Frau Feichter ; the house is situated about a 10 minute walk from the centre of town . |
| 12 | The incremental area under the curve was calculated for the 30 minute period of stimulation in each individual patient by the trapezoid method , after subtraction of the mean basal for that patient . |
| 13 | Survey formrs for the 1993 Good beer Guide will be dispatched to branches in late October . |
| 14 | If I do not wish to continue after the three monthly issues I will write and let you know within 10 days of receiving my third issue and will not owe you a penny . |
| 15 | Jordan 's overriding objective continued to be survival , caught between the two regional powers , Syria and Israel , and between the imperatives of the Palestinian movement and its own interest in the West Bank . |
| 16 | Results were still awaited for the 10 non-Moslem seats . |
| 17 | I caught an early edition , read about the ruckus , and thought I 'd better come home and see what was happening about the five grand . ’ |
| 18 | The law also provided for a 24 nautical mile " adjacent area " in which the Taiwan government could take precautions against any intrusion . |
| 19 | Indeed , the fact that performance varied between the two logical items suggests that factors other than the physical/psychological/logical distinction may be responsible for the variations in performance . |
| 20 | Whatever transpired between the two long-time friends must be really serious . |
| 21 | The Galleries will act as a one million sq ft magnet to six million shoppers , not just from Birmingham , but from the entire West Midlands conurbation and beyond . |
| 22 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 23 | The emergency services are investigating why firefighters turned up late to a mock nuclear accident.Confusion over phone lines is being blamed for a ten minute delay before the fire brigade responded . |
| 24 | Gallup for The Daily Telegraph gave the Conservatives a hair 's breadth half-point lead over Labour , with the Liberal Democrats in danger of being squeezed as the two main parties battle to emerge as the largest party in a possible hung parliament . |
| 25 | At the Suffolk elections of 1705 and 1710 , 80 per cent of the clergy voted for the two Tory candidates . |
| 26 | The ground resolution of a TM image is such that a pixel has about a 30 m side , which seems appropriate for the scale of analysis used . |
| 27 | ( A pause , while Charles tried , according to the best Stanislavskian method , to give the impression of a man torn between the two great motives of his life — love of money and fear of scandal . ) |
| 28 | As the engine was warm , a single prime and a turn of the key got us turning and burning and we completed the pre-taxi cockpit chores of plugging in headsets ( sensibly , the sockets are located between the two front seats at elbow level , obviating tangles with any controls ) and latching the doors . |
| 29 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 30 | More than 80% mortality has been reported for the 32 documented cases of herpes B virus infection in man . |