Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now it may well be that er that may well be the the position in the south west in in respect of of of that particular criteria , but we would need to see , er how a location in that area , met the other eleven criteria . |
2 | She led a losing diamond from dummy , on which she discarded the winning heart from the closed hand , and West was forced to ruff and concede the last two tricks . |
3 | The Bundesrat had opposed the reform , referring it to a conciliation commission of both houses of parliament in April , but lacked the necessary two-thirds majority to block the bill again in early June . |
4 | The EC could absorb the 16.5 million East Germans , if it came to that , more easily than it could the two countries whose applications already lie on the table in Brussels — Austria with her backward deck-cargo of neutrality , and Turkey , with her GDP well below that of Portugal . |
5 | and , who work in Risley 's Effluent Plant Projects Office , were quick off the mark in the second race and were back in the boat house long before the second boat , crewed by and , had completed the required four laps . |
6 | He had not quite completed the required three years out of four , but because his examination results had been good , the Senatus stretched a point , and we both got leave to come to Edinburgh for the January 1944 graduation . |
7 | Erm , it 's important to remember that this is , in financial terms , a four year transition period , and you have n't yet completed the first twelve months . |
8 | Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right . |
9 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
10 | HAVING completed the first two legs of their Caribbean tour , the South Africans , who arrived here yesterday on what is the least volatile island on their itinerary , feel the political success of their visit is already guaranteed . |
11 | The previous evening , I could not have completed the last fifty yards without his help , but now if he had climbed on my back he could not have been more of a hindrance . |
12 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
13 | The neutrons thereby produced in turn produced 14 C by interaction with 14 N. This simulated natural cosmogenic production , albeit in large bursts , and roughly doubled the atmospheric 14 C content as measured in about 1965 . |
14 | His general practitioner had prescribed the hypnotic 3 days before the overdose . |
15 | This week he records the first two programmes for his 21st series of TV 's Record Breakers . |
16 | Or you may find that when you first start on your weight control programme you lose the first 3–5 lb ( 1.4–2.3 kg ) fairly rapidly . |
17 | The above ‘ spare time ’ could also include re-activating the full 39 Squadron Association Membership . |
18 | The Department of Transport is responsible for maintaining the 25 000 kilometres of trunk roads in England . |
19 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
20 | It was organised by several local groups , including Wensleydale railway association , which sees the present 22 mile branch as a vital link in its campaign to restore the last 17 miles of the Wensleydale line between Redmire and Garsdale . |
21 | During a series of pre-conference meetings between members of the government-in-exile and its critics , the government reportedly agreed to restore the original 1962 constitution in return for an undertaking by the opposition to affirm its loyalty to the ruling dynasty . |
22 | Arguing a case involves the following four stages : |
23 | To illustrate this , consider a simple example in which producing a woollen coat involves the following three stages of production : |
24 | Mind or memory is that total creative capacity for consciousness , which also contains that which is below the level of immediate recognition — man 's full potential for knowledge , which is like God himself It is the theatre of human integrity which involves the other two faculties , " resoun " and " will " . |
25 | THE NUMBER of people unemployed for more than a year passed the one million mark yesterday . |
26 | An RCM report on girls in nursing appeared in 1944 , when the number of Kindertransporte volunteers in the profession passed the two hundred mark . |
27 | EARLIER this month the Ipswich Grain Terminal passed the five million tonnes milestone . |
28 | In January 1983 the figure passed the 3 million mark , reaching a peak in August 1986 and then declining slowly but steadily . |
29 | In the event of any shortcomings in a document with respect to enterprise content , the subcommittee agreed the following two courses of action : — |
30 | We agreed the sixty eight posts to start off the Poll Tax . |