Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [art] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CWIS ‘ blue source ’ , for example , makes it possible to search the hundreds of thousands of titles in the Library , to place reservations and even to check one 's own borrowing record . |
| 2 | Unlisted Securities Market-quoted Sherwood , chaired by David Parker , is due to report the 30 per cent-plus profits increase on Tuesday . |
| 3 | On the one hand we have the hunting fraternity saying that because they rarely catch and kill foxes , some say a two to three percent efficiency rate , er that it 's not cruel yet on the other hand , they say that it 's the most efficient and humane way to control the fox population . |
| 4 | Several states might have been willing to follow the Six in their ventures if Britain had been willing to join . |
| 5 | Okay , we 'd be willing to up the the , be willing to up the ten to twelve . |
| 6 | With the spirit at mass events like Band Aid and Mandela Day , it would be easy to see the Eighties as a humane , caring decade . |
| 7 | IT SEEMS appropriate to end the Eighties with the band that decided that this decade was quite enough . |
| 8 | Do n't tell Madeleine I said so because she 'll deny it just to be contrary , but I 'm very much hoping the two of them will soon be getting engaged . |
| 9 | That fetched the two from West , the queen from dummy and the ace from East , who then leads a second spade — the nine . |
| 10 | I find it hard to divide the two at any time . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's grand to see the two of youse together , ’ he says , cool as you like . |
| 12 | Armand Roy , were to be deployed in 10 observation posts on both sides of the " walls of sand " which Morocco had built since 1981 to enclose the two-thirds of the Western Sahara which was under its control . |
| 13 | He said that it had not yet been decided how to go about making the cuts in all areas , notably in France , and it is not clear whether the figure of 3,000 includes the 800 to 900 positions that Bull said last week that it intended to eliminate in France . |
| 14 | Happy though he was , Ya'acov wanted very much to be together with Solly , his brother , and the Maggses were not able to accommodate the two of them . |
| 15 | A big quake east of the Rocky Mountains — and one greater than magnitude 6 has a 50 to 60 per cent chance of occurring in the next 25 years — could make California 's Loma Prieta seem trifling . |
| 16 | The feeling persists that sport is still of peripheral concern when the parties make their manifesto pledges ; that in the struggle with the arts for the hearts , minds ( and pockets ) of politicians , it comes a poor second , but that government is more than happy to accept the millions of pounds in various forms of tax generated by this ‘ art of the masses ’ . |
| 17 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |
| 18 | We must all learn to judge a bottle by its content not by its wrapping and if we are able to approach the hundreds of alternative sparkling wines being offered in place of Champagne with open minds we will reap pleasure and reward . |
| 19 | I was really pleased to see the eight of them clearing up so well and independently . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't see what I did different , ’ he said , facing front to inspect the two of them in the mirror and then turning round to have a look from the side . |
| 21 | On the whole I found it less tiring to keep the two of them apart . |
| 22 | That put a 9 on his card . |
| 23 | For what it is worth , most modern biologists would n't find it difficult to explain every one of the Bishop 's 35 examples in terms of the theory of natural selection , although not all of them are quite as easy as the polar bears . |
| 24 | However , he left his first putt five feet short and missed that to take a five to Frost 's four . |
| 25 | Each carried a dozen of the heavy flasks , and a score of loaves of bread strung together by string , worn like a bandolier . |
| 26 | Rather as you expected East wins the first trick with the ten of diamonds , and at trick two leads the four of spades . |
| 27 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 28 | Last year 's Benson & Hedges winners Lancashire , without the mercurial Akram , on tour with the Pakistanis , but with the ever improving DeFreitas will have their supporters keen to take the 8–1 on offer with Coomes and Dennis. , Hampshire , now able to welcome Malcolm Marshall back and as vice-captain , have the combined batting and bowling talent to make any opposition shudder . |
| 29 | Beth had thought her son and Cissie were still in the garden , so was pleasantly surprised to see the two of them already in the kitchen ; Richard eagerly awaiting his tea , and Cissie fussing with a place setting . |
| 30 | But the Becks have already started turning lawned areas into borders ready to take the hundreds of plants they 're transferring . |