Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The debates that accompanied the passage of this Bill through Parliament reflected two themes which constantly recur in discussions about local government reorganisation . |
| 2 | C&A has applied to Darlington Borough Council for permission to erect three store signs on the Cornmill Centre . |
| 3 | Those sentenced for espionage included three people arrested in March 1989 and sentenced on Feb. 15 , 1990 , for computer hacking for the Soviet KGB . |
| 4 | A number of dealers noted that they had gained regular new clients from the fair , who , despite these difficult times , returned year after year to purchase one print for their collection . |
| 5 | POLICE last night issued an appeal for help to find two schoolgirls missing from their homes since Sunday . |
| 6 | The gong for lunch sounded two floors down . |
| 7 | In this new state , the rule for unstack can not be applied at all , but the rule for stack has six instances : x is any one of the three blocks ; y is any block other than x . |
| 8 | The bottle of champagne took five attempts to break , the roses dropped , out of the two passing aircraft , missed the ceremony by 200 yards and the balloons drifted off downwind , unnoticed . |
| 9 | Until 1190 , they were kept up-to-date ; but in that year , Count Henry II of Champagne took one copy of the list with him when he set out for Outremer , and this may have inhibited his officials from making further changes in the copy left behind at Troyes . |
| 10 | I have tried a similar method with my Hague Linker by using a small piece of thread to join two pieces of yarn but , unfortunately , the knots were still too big to go through the eye of the needle . |
| 11 | Between 1965 and 1967 the Direction Technique des Engins ( DTEn ) of the Ministry of Defence launched four Diamant A rockets ; one carried the satellite ( 26 November 1965 ) , dubbed Asterix — whose successful launch made France the third country to launch an artificial earth satellite . |
| 12 | The Ministry of Defence says two Hercules planes are now waiting for orders at Zagreb and they may be recalled back to Lyneham , if flights into Sarajevo prove to dangerous to risk . |
| 13 | The calming and relaxing effect of electro-acupuncture using 10 Hz through particular acupuncture points may be due to a similar reason . |
| 14 | The Winter of Discontent began nine months after I left the kitchen . |
| 15 | It is now elementary that the tort of negligence involves three factors : a duty of care , a breach of that duty and consequent damage . |
| 16 | In practice , a computer 's capacity is expressed in ‘ bytes ’ , which are units of measure comprising 8 bits . |
| 17 | By the mid-sixteenth century it had emerged as a distinct species of case involving four allegations . |
| 18 | To do a complete job would of course require two rings and three pickup coils . |
| 19 | So a single-member company may of course have one member , but will normally need two officers , ie the member/director and another person as company secretary . |
| 20 | Of the opposition sides , Bay of Plenty replaced one player while Richard Loe , who left the field during the First Test , was the only other casualty . |
| 21 | The kind of inferences that are called implicatures are always of this special intended kind , and the theory of implicature sketches one way in which such inferences , of a non-conventional sort , can be conveyed while meeting the criterion of communicated messages sketched in Grice 's theory of meaning-nn . |
| 22 | Under his influence they have enjoyed an unprecedented era of glory winning 25 cups in seven years , including five successive Wembley victories and a hat-trick of Cup and League doubles |
| 23 | It was read out in parliament to persuade the commons in the euphoric aftermath of Crécy to grant two subsidies and publicly proclaimed at St Paul 's to arouse popular enthusiasm for the war . |
| 24 | The Animal Procedures Committee , set up to advise the government on animal experiments , recommended that there was sufficient evidence of sentience to give one species of invertebrate , the common octopus , protection . |
| 25 | A gift of just £12 could provide enough sachets of ORT to save 240 children . |
| 26 | The special symbol of confirmation has four parts . |
| 27 | In all the difficulties of being cared for , the role of confidante offers one solution . |
| 28 | This course of action continues twenty years after it was instigated by Kilbrandon . |
| 29 | This measure of effect has two virtues : it is simple and intuitively appealing . |
| 30 | I hereby surrender the lease of the above premises dated 19 May 1972 in consideration of you accepting the goods set out in the inventory below in full and final settlement of all claims and demands against me under the terms of the said lease and specified in the notice of distress dated 2 March 1988 . |