Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This first pattern represents heaven and light and has 18 movements . |
| 2 | ‘ It felt comfortable to use , it 's light and has three heat settings . ’ |
| 3 | Fortunately , it is smooth and well-matched to five-speed automatic gearbox ( below ) , which has close ratios that allow revs to stay high and keep straight-six engine ‘ on cam ’ |
| 4 | It stood twenty-five spans high and took four horses to pull it . |
| 5 | The statue is 5.5m high and weighs 20 tonnes . |
| 6 | That main block is fairly high and has two levels . |
| 7 | I had been ushered into the throne room ( the throne itself , 8 feet high and needing six men to move it , was carved from a solid slab of oak and had been presented to Queen Salote by the British Government in 1951 ) , and could hear from next door the awful warble of Mr Swaggart 's daily broadcast to which the King was apparently listening . |
| 8 | A good Americansandwich will be a Dagwood Bumstead special — at least six inches long , four multi-layered inches high and need two hands to control it . |
| 9 | After an alleged assault on her birthday in September 1989 she could not face returning to the Royal High and missed eight months of education before starting at a private school . |
| 10 | It is some three centuries old and commemorates three individuals , two men and a woman , who died in the sectarian ‘ killing times ’ of this period . |
| 11 | Updata is the sole product offering from GL Software , which is just three years old and has 25 staff . |
| 12 | Since it is probably an exaggeration to suppose that as much as 50 per cent of the population dies selectively in each generation , let us be generous and allow ten generations per base . |
| 13 | Andrew Culthord , who was deputy head boy at Ferryhill Comprehensive and achieved four A-levels , is a marketing officer at Sedgefield District Council . |
| 14 | The Microlog is electronic rather than mechanical and has nine functions which , in addition to speed and distance , includes trim speed , highest speed , average speed , time and distance to destination and a 24-hour clock . |
| 15 | Warm and sieve 450 g ( 1 lb ) apricot jam . |
| 16 | But once I got to the hospital and after the operation the doctor reassured me it was a straightforward and took forty-five minutes . |
| 17 | Three different circuits were used : The Outer Circuit ( the full course ) measured 4.45 km ( 2.77 miles ) ; the Short Course took in everything except the Home Banking , and was 4.21 km ( 2.62 miles ) long ; and the Mountain Course used only the Home Banking and Finishing Straight and measured 1.88 km ( 1.17 miles ) . |
| 18 | Louis Libaude and William Kundig also purchased paintings and finally a banker named Schenemayer hurried over to see Zborowski and bought six portraits for four thousand francs without even bothering to look at them . |
| 19 | Centres are advised to forward schemes to HCIMA as early as possible and to allow 10 weeks for the moderation process ( in order to allow for resubmissions ) . |
| 20 | Geoffrey Ferguson hit a not out 71 out of their 174 for two total and took two wickets for 31 . |
| 21 | I was about to break from sheltering rock and follow when I saw him stop aghast and raise one arm involuntarily in a gesture of self-protection . |
| 22 | The stork has been flying low and landed three times in the Surrey area recently , visiting . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm still thankful to be alive and eating three meals a day . |
| 24 | My parents are alive and have thirty grandchildren . |
| 25 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 26 | ( My red-tailed buzzard , on the other hand , can drag a fully grown rabbit in her claws , but then she is two feet tall and weighs 3 pounds or more , nearly four times Dawn 's weight . ) |
| 27 | He is 6ft tall and weighs 19 stone . |
| 28 | The hardwood forest trees in this picture were at least 100 feet tall and took 400 years to grow . |
| 29 | How should indexicals be accommodated , so that the notion of logical consequence , as it applies for example to the inference from ( 14 ) to ( 15 ) , can also be applied to the inference from ( 16 ) to ( 17 ) ? ( 14 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds ( 15 ) John Henry McTavitty is six feet tall ( 16 ) I am six feet tall and weigh 200 pounds ( 17 ) I am six feet tall Clearly , in order for ( 17 ) to be a valid inference from ( 16 ) , the referent of I must somehow be fixed — the inference does n't follow if ( 16 ) and ( 17 ) are said by different speakers . |
| 30 | The adult animal would have stood 12.5 metres tall and stretched 40 metres from head to tail . |