Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Producing three pages of detailed questions relating to last year 's accounts may entitle an interviewer to draw an adverse conclusion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 8 | Three main opposition groups in Yugoslavia 's united yesterday to contest Slovenia 's first free elections scheduled for next March , Tanjug news agency reported . |
| 9 | Vologsky 's turbulent emotions broke at last . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To the novelist , that alteration in domestic mores seems at first sight to have had more significance than the increasing diversity of styles . |
| 16 | Curtis ' incipiently multiracial ideas seemed at first rather startling to some other members of the Round . |
| 17 | WE STILL do n't know which Tory backsliders dared to second Sir Anthony Meyer 's nomination papers in his bid for ultimate power . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An internal memorandum by the chief economist of the World Bank , Lawrence Summers , which suggests encouraging polluting industries to relocate to third world countries , has been leaked to The Economist . |
| 20 | Most of the existing shares came from First Financial Management Corp , Atlanta , Georgia , which acquired 2.4m shares in connection with FIserv 's acquisition of Tomahawk Holding Inc and its Basis Information Technologies Inc unit . |
| 21 | The 1993 LIBF had a distinctly European feel : the number of overseas visitors compared with last year rose from 1,868 to 2,462 , an increase of 32% . |
| 22 | The court ruling comes at a sensitive time for the Japanese government , which is claiming a lead role in environmental affairs , and has strenuously denied that it encourages its hazardous industries to relocate to third world countries . |
| 23 | The professional competencies required of first and second level nurses are commensurate with the level and duration of initial nurse training , and these are examined more closely in Chapter 7 when discussing changes in nursing practice generally . |
| 24 | You ca n't , you have to , people with temporary contracts have to first |
| 25 | After the long drive up from Egypt , the various parties assembled at Eighth Army Headquarters at Bouerat . |
| 26 | Includes impressive archaeological treasures dating from first arrival of man in Ireland c. 7000 BC until late 17th century . |
| 27 | Myanma 's ( formerly Burma ) military rulers yesterday barred one of the country 's main dissident groups headed by a former prime minister , U Nu , from contesting elections set for next May . |
| 28 | The Former West German Chancellor , Mr Willy Brandt , has said that any party in East Germany that decides to run on a reunification plank is virtually assured of a runaway victory at the general elections set for next May . |
| 29 | More than one of the void screens had at last been overloaded . |
| 30 | The butter was lowered down on ropes into the cool depths to keep until next market day . |