Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwards won the NorthEast 100 metres title in 1990 and is likely to start as favourite after spending two months training in Fountain Valley , California , with John Regis , Roger Black , Kriss Akabussi and Marcus Adam . |
| 2 | Kung had been released from prison in 1985 after serving 30 years for " counter-revolutionary " crimes [ see p. 33724 ] . |
| 3 | Drew started his career at Methil Branch and moved to Laurencekirk in 1985 after spending six years at Kirkwall Branch as Assistant Manager . |
| 4 | Harshad Mehta , the broker at the centre of the securities scandal , was granted bail of Rs1,000,000 ( US$39,000 ) on Sept. 22 after spending 110 days in detention . |
| 5 | Veteran peace campaigner Abie Nathan was released from prison on March 30 after serving six months of an 18-month sentence for meeting Yassir Arafat , chair of the Palestine Liberation Organization . |
| 6 | The President would be a candidate for re-election , as would Miguel Trouvoada , Prime Minister from independence in 1975 until 1979 [ see pp. 27265 ; 30028 ] , who had returned to the country on May 30 after spending 10 years in exile in France . |
| 7 | Mother said that Aunt Bessie was fond of telling one story about Thomas Isaac , recalling the occasion when he was asked to say grace before breakfast one morning and steadfastly refused although commanded several times by his father . |
| 8 | It is not the general property or universal of weighing two pounds , whatever it is , that is flattening the napkin . |
| 9 | Miss Gabriel retired from the secretaryship in order to become chairman in January 1941 , and on that occasion she told of her long association with the Guild , which she was chiefly instrumental in establishing thirty years previously . |
| 10 | Warner in particular is interesting in producing two B formats with dust jackets . |
| 11 | Learn how to do this by taking one colour , say yellow , and thinking of all the objects that come within that category . |
| 12 | You also have to find and destroy the quadralien mother , you do this by controlling two droids which you can pick from six available droids . |
| 13 | For example , he did this by quoting two anthropologists , Fison and Howitt , who wrote about Australian Aborigines in terms which could be construed as meaning that large groups of men married large groups of women . |
| 14 | Robbins 's purpose here is to define theatre as the quality of his narration as well as the subject-matter , and he does this by introducing three author-surrogates . |
| 15 | It did this by proposing four aims concerning knowledge , skills , affective development and the demands of society . |
| 16 | The world could pay for all this by redirecting 10 days military spending , but this is an unlikely prospect . |
| 17 | Nicaragua retaliated on Dec. 30 by ordering 20 US diplomats to leave the country forthwith , and US President George Bush admitted on the same day that the action was a " screw-up " . |
| 18 | Word Convert solves the kind of puzzles seen in many magazine competitions where a given word is converted into another by altering one letter at a time . |
| 19 | After a two-week trial at Winchester Crown Court , 44-year-old Gary Richman from Swindon was found guilty of smuggling 246 kilogrammes of cannabis resin into Britain . |
| 20 | The nurse , Beverley Allitt , has been found guilty of murdering two children in her care . |
| 21 | The move comes after an Antrim father and daughter were found guilty of keeping four pit bulls illegally . |
| 22 | That same month he was paid 3/6 per 100 for filling 471 kibbles which came to 16/5 from which 1/2 was deducted for candles , and 1/ for a spade . |
| 23 | The computer also takes care of other jobs , such as channelling one programme to several booths simultaneously , or providing data on current system usage and tape popularity . |
| 24 | Special lighting effects , such as spotlighting one performer , or moving from group to group leaving part of the floor in darkness , all helps to add atmosphere , but , of course , is only possible with a large number and in a suitably equipped arena or hall . |
| 25 | This laborious process can be disguised ( but never eliminated ) by careful product design , such as holding one type of data in the computer 's memory while another is retrieved . |
| 26 | Many drivers were thinking twice about carrying out risky manoeuvres such as doing 90 miles an hour down the motorway even though such speeds benefited society in speeding up access to distant parts . |
| 27 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 28 | It is desirable , in addition , to contrast the instrumental colour of the two lines , that is to say , not to be content with using two sets of exactly similar instruments for the two melodic lines . |
| 29 | Not content with beating seven bells out of the test team at Lords The Aussies took on the Combined Universities in a three day game today and almost strangled it at birth . |
| 30 | We were fortunate in having one car parked at Cemmaes , so it was possible to extend the walk by a couple of miles and finish it there , just before the daylight went . |