Example sentences of "[verb] the [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also systems ( e.g. in Australian and New Guinea languages ) that distinguish the three dimensions of space , having demonstratives that gloss as " the one above the speaker " , " the one below the speaker " , " the one level with the speaker " as well as distinguishing relative distance from participants ( see e.g. Dixon , 1972 : 262ff re Dyirbal ) . |
| 2 | One of the things Namibia 's new president must accept is that he lacked the two-thirds majority in the constituent assembly he would have needed to push through plans supported only by his party , SWAPO . |
| 3 | Nor , since he lacked the four generations of noble blood required for a commission in the French navy , was he offered the command of a French ship . |
| 4 | There we go ( Note that , in most cases , the three kinds of sentences only favour the three kinds of interpretation . ) |
| 5 | Even a change of name — from the Windscale that had witnessed the 1957 fire to the brave new world of Sellafield — has failed to expunge public hostility . |
| 6 | After the hearing the mother asked the local authority to accommodate the two boys for the time being and that was done by placement in foster care . |
| 7 | He had obviously travelled the ten miles from Harwell overnight . |
| 8 | Allowing the 1 cm of fish per 3.5 litres of water ( 1″ of fish to 2 imperial gallons ) rule to apply gave me room for five small fish . |
| 9 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 10 | The transverse fibres or commissures unite the two ganglia of a pair . |
| 11 | It looks as though there lies behind D a chronicle which received additions in Christ Church Canterbury , and at least one of those additions , on Æthelnoth 's journey to Rome , was possibly present in a version which reached St Augustine 's , where it was copied in a slightly modified form into the predecessor of E. St Augustine 's may also have received the 1023 entry in D , but abbreviated it to the single sentence which E now contains . |
| 12 | Indeed , protein trees encompassing the three domains of life ( archaebacteria , eubacteria and eukaryotes ) are becoming more popular as the number of available protein sequences from archaebacteria increases . |
| 13 | Northampton finished third in 1912 , with 82 goals , 41 against , maintaining the 2–1 average of the previous three seasons . |
| 14 | This involves the two groups plus a host of other musicians pooling their talents and putting out their releases . |
| 15 | The government may again do the unthinkable and push the 1989 budget through the Diet without the blessing of the opposition . |
| 16 | His mother passed the two sheets of paper , typed in the smudged style characteristic of the Metropolitan Police , to her husband with a frown . |
| 17 | In late June 1991 the legislature passed the 1991-92 budget for the financial year beginning on July 1 . |
| 18 | On Sept. 28 the committee concluded by reminding the two leaders of their " heavy national responsibilities to avert the shedding of Moslem blood " . |
| 19 | Some too have criticized the Ten Commandments for being negative . |
| 20 | The reader will recall that I argued that this meant satisfactorily surmounting the three stages of psychosexual growth which psychoanalysis discovered long ago to be typical of most individuals in our culture . |
| 21 | Then coordinate the two lists by using the material on the right side of the page for the opposite . |
| 22 | We denote all the terms in the square bracket as A s , which are the same for every unit cell , and sum all the scattered waves illuminated by the incident plane wave within the probe coherence area , containing N 2 unit cells , to give The first two summations are the structure factor , which amount to constant coefficients in the LEED I-V spectra , leading to Thus the main effect of long-range order , as distinct from short-range order , is to produce intensity at Bragg beam positions ; it does not influence the I-V dependence at a given Bragg beam position . |
| 23 | He stuffed the two pieces into Vasili 's anorak pocket . |
| 24 | Repeat the ten rows from * to * for the pattern . |
| 25 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 26 | After all , I made the 1989 side after using the new putter for only six months . |
| 27 | He only made the two trips to the house . ’ |
| 28 | A three-man committee ruled the 9-1 result of the first-round replay was ‘ significantly influenced ’ when Kinstonian keeper Adrian Blake was hit by a missile . |
| 29 | Those who cling to an impression of Reger as an unrelievedly turgid and ponderous musician should certainly sample the 6 Burlesques of 1901 which open this recital . |
| 30 | AT&T says that it is already using the two components in its New Generation Testing system that troubleshoots toll-free 800 number services and can pinpoint problems on up to 42 lines simultaneously . |