Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] the [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives are due to interview the five men later today . |
| 2 | It is interesting to compare the two years . |
| 3 | MALTA said yesterday that it was willing to accept the two Libyans accused of the Lockerbie bombing for trial on the island if all parties agreed . |
| 4 | Labour also claimed that ministers , hiding behind ‘ public interest immunity certificates ’ , were prepared to let the three men be tried . |
| 5 | It would have been quite interesting having the two languages . |
| 6 | That Van Butchell was willing to pay the 100 guineas is interesting and suggests that there were no bounds to his eccentricities . |
| 7 | But surely it would be more appropriate to see the two perspectives as complementary . |
| 8 | However , it seems to us quite impossible to rewrite the two agreements in this matter as a matter of construction … |
| 9 | Nurturing confidence is one thing , but cosseting them from the harsh realities of top provincial competition could prove totally counter-productive come the two games the count against the New Zealand XV , who themselves will not include any of the All Black tourists in Australia for the Bledisloe Cup series . |
| 10 | In practice it is possible to combine the two methods . |
| 11 | Was it possible to combine the two roles ? |
| 12 | There are 30 prosecutors for the country 's 90 courts ; only five of them are supposed to handle the 17 courts in Guatemala City . |
| 13 | In two cases involving admirable heroines and dubious companions it is hard to separate the two categories . |
| 14 | Linguists belonging to the Prague School by and large conflate the two structures and combine them in the same description . |
| 15 | New members from outside the village are welcome to join the 14 regulars . |
| 16 | But , despite repeated public protestations to the contrary , senior politicians of both main parties have been discreetly considering their tactics in the event that neither Conservatives nor Labour secure the 326 seats needed to win immediate power . |
| 17 | It is not realistic or helpful to view the two sectors , of formal and informal care , as separate . |
| 18 | Planting is chosen for ease of maintenance and it is particularly useful to use the two trees , birch and sorbus provide vertical emphasis , helping to counteract the steep slope . |
| 19 | However , in analysing behaviour in organizations , it is extremely useful to consider the two sets apart — on the one hand the goals relating to the individual search for a comfortable lifestyle , and on the other those relating to the search for a definition of what is required of each individual . |
| 20 | DAVID GRINDLEY 'S battle with Roger Black to earn the 400 metres place in Britain 's European Cup team looks set to be resolved in Rome tonight . |
| 21 | Mostly they have been ambivalent , admitting on the one hand that both creativity and psychosis probably share similar underlying psychic mechanisms — unconscious motivation , involvement of ‘ primary process ’ thinking ( fantasy ) , ideational styles and so on ; yet , on the other hand , unwilling to bring the two states together in any causal sense . |
| 22 | There is obviously a scholarly interest in being able to see the two versions of ‘ La Dance ’ , from our museum and from the Hermitage , or the two versions of ‘ Nasturtiums with dance ’ from the Metropolitan Museum and from the Hermitage . |
| 23 | While there will be a delay of between four to six months before the NT and NetWare releases become available , Brown reckons that by 1995 , or three versions of the database on , Informix should be able to launch the three versions simultaneously . |
| 24 | While there will be a delay of between four to six months before the NT and NetWare releases become available , Brown reckons that by 1995 , or three versions of the database on , Informix should be able to launch the three versions simultaneously . |
| 25 | They claim that the education authority 's official statement of his learning difficulties failed to specify the amount of extra teaching he should have , and that his school was unable to provide the five hours a week one-to-one lessons they believe he needs . |
| 26 | From there she should be able to jump the eighteen inches or so to the towpath . |
| 27 | Detectives investigating the explosions have questioned more than 10,000 people but have so far been unable to identify the two men and eliminate them from their inquiries . |
| 28 | If you force people to choose between a family and a job I suppose , you know , women lots of women choose the family erm the only way women will achieve more educationally is to be able to combine the two things and not always have to make these crippling decisions and choices between two things which most human beings want , so there is a lot of money being spent on research into sex inequality and so on , and that 's encouraging , but I think it 's being spent in slightly the wrong way and I think there 's a tendency to evade the crucial issues which are , of course , rather deep social issues about the organization of the family and work and they take a lot of changing , so I am ambivalent about that one . |
| 29 | This suggests that subjects were able to dissociate the two scales where appropriate , for example , junction 17 , entering a dual carriageway from a slip road , received the fourth highest mean risk rating of the 40 junctions , 6.47 . |
| 30 | Now that the leg was bandaged and had rested almost a day , it was not as painful , and I was able to manage the five miles to camp in two hours . |