Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure of the rule-based systems has led some researchers to talk about third generation machines and others to return to the more basic systems from the 1960's . |
| 2 | ITV have secured a £600,000 sponsorship package with Scottish Provident for coverage of all 13 British Lions matches on next season 's tour to New Zealand . |
| 3 | If you feel strongly about this issue , then please vote on the form below and send it to the editorial offices to arrive by 18th May . |
| 4 | For most of the time the ‘ Big Bird ’ preferred to sacrifice the flat-out pace of his team-mates for accuracy and control , taking wickets by making the ball swing and cut , and so in Tests was for some years used as first or second change bowler . |
| 5 | Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year 's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion . |
| 6 | But the news , later in the day , that the first of at least 10 chartered trains had at last crossed the border into Czechoslovakia revived the East Germans ' spirit of solidarity in the face of inconvenience and discomfort . |
| 7 | With a £2,000 prize fund , the championships have attracted five top English players headed by second seed , Jonathan Lilley , who is due to meet Scotland 's Martin Heath in the semi-finals , and Paul Millington . |
| 8 | EC Finance Ministers , meeting in Brussels on 27th July , provisionally agreed a tax package which included minimum rates of excise duty on alcoholic drinks to apply from 1st January 1993 . |
| 9 | Needless to say the Herald proved itself admirably with a few lessons learned for next time . |
| 10 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 11 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia 's united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 12 | Vologsky 's turbulent emotions broke at last . |
| 13 | It does n't lay down rigid guidelines to be followed , it just suggests erm penalties for average offences committed by first offenders of average means , and it provides a starting point for magistrates to think about . |
| 14 | It is the coarse fish close season and there are six weeks to go to 16th June . |
| 15 | After throwing 60.70 metres to qualify in eighth place , she confessed : ‘ That 's the hardest semi-final I 've encountered in my entire career . |
| 16 | When personal representatives sell without first effecting registration of their title , proof thereof and of the death of the registered proprietor must of course be lodged : a copy of the grant of probate or letters of administration certified as a true copy by the seller 's conveyancers ( when acting for a buyer you should make this requirement the subject of one of your requisitions on title ) is sufficient evidence . |
| 17 | In parliamentary by-elections on Nov. 29 in the two Paisley constituencies in Scotland , Labour held both seats with sharply reduced majorities ; the Conservative share of the poll fell only marginally , although the Scottish National Party candidates moved from fourth to second place in each case ( and the Liberal Democrats fell to fourth place ) . |
| 18 | Mr Ashdown professed to be delighted that the Tories had taken the Liberal Democrats head on last week , in an attempt to chip away at their support . |
| 19 | He considers the ways in which oral conventions persisted in twelfth and thirteenth century English society at a time when larger numbers of people were beginning to use literacy for more purposes . |
| 20 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 21 | By sinking them , the Company made available at least a dozen blocks lying between Second and Fifth Avenues . |
| 22 | The Grammy-winning Genesis singer has decided to live full-time in America , where he is planning three films deals for next year . |
| 23 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 24 | As London 's largest independent provider of community care we have seen these changes unfold at first hand . |
| 25 | WE STILL do n't know which Tory backsliders dared to second Sir Anthony Meyer 's nomination papers in his bid for ultimate power . |
| 26 | The French allotment was many times oversubscribed by last Monday and the price on the Parisian grey market , where shares are unoffically traded before issue , has been as high as Fr95 , compared to an issue price of Fr72 . |
| 27 | As noted above , the USA pursued bilateral rights with many European , Latin American , and Middle Eastern countries , using the so-called ‘ Chicago form ’ and in all cases insisting on fifth freedom rights . |
| 28 | The Drama Collection in the Library 's Department of Early Printed Books concentrates on 18th and 19th-century editions of works by Irish authors and on other Irish printed editions and amounts to some 2300 plays . |
| 29 | Summit leaders called on all countries to contribute to Third World aid by assisting victims of " the unprecedented drought in southern Africa " . |
| 30 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |