Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most banks and monetary authorities distinguish between two types of bank deposits : |
| 2 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 3 | Hastings claimed all the Lions points with six penalties , equalling the record for a Lion set by Tony Ward in South Africa in 1980 . |
| 4 | The 42 cases diagnosed aged 60 years or over represent 19% of all those diagnosed in adult life . |
| 5 | In 1989 nickel production reached 46,935 tonnes , of which exports amounted to 46,071 tonnes worth 715,000,000 francs and equivalent to one-fifth of the territory 's budget . |
| 6 | Fifty-five per cent of the 781 families lived in houses consisting of two rooms on a tenement staircase . |
| 7 | Although it is only in its second season , the garden looks mature , overflowing with over 50 herbs arranged in four beds , complete with a central bird bath . |
| 8 | In addition to opening up the northern prairies , it produced a land boom in northern British Columbia , where land values rose from 50 cents an acre to 30–60 dollars an acre in the space of a few years , and created a new Pacific port at Prince Rupert , 500 miles north of Vancouver , a new town where the population reached 5,000 in the space of two years . |
| 9 | Day after day many of them sit at desks confined by four walls , their eyes glued to figures , their minds hassled by the problems of business . |
| 10 | At the end of the day 's session , the Congress of People 's Deputies voted by 530 votes to 236 to ‘ accept as a basis for discussion ’ a declaration that should free ministers ' hands to press ahead with free market policies . |
| 11 | Flames leaping to thirty feet in the air were reported just off the road at Wheatley causing a stretch of the road to be closed all day . |
| 12 | The few in existence up to 1706 had their administrative authority vested , as in the continuing case of the public parish roads , in the justices of the peace at quarter sessions , but from that date , beginning with acts relating to two stretches of the road to Holyhead , in Bedfordshire and in Worcestershire , independent trustees took over the administration of the tolls and the responsibility for road maintenance . |
| 13 | The Cued Speech programmes varied between 6 months and just over 2 years . |
| 14 | He gets eight hours sleep in three minutes . |
| 15 | Once a child is able to match one-to-one with confidence , he can use the idea to make a visual comparison of the number of objects contained in two sets . |
| 16 | The largest entry is again from England with nearly 400 schools competing at 26 venues . |
| 17 | Hawke 's own losses amounted to two ships , a 74 and a 64 , and 300–400 men . |
| 18 | In the period February 21st-26th , the French losses amounted to 25,000 men , and , although during that time the ratio of French and German casualties was reliably estimated at three to one , by the 29th German losses had already passed the 25,000 mark . |
| 19 | Of the 1,185 candidates competing for 349 seats ( polling was not scheduled in 11 constituencies in Nagorny Karabakh and the neighbouring Shaumyan district because of security concerns ) , 921 were CP members . |
| 20 | TV-scanned images suffer from two problems in addition to those of low spatial resolution ( i.e. large pixel size ) and relatively low contrast . |
| 21 | Here we need to consider sequences consisting of three elements : |
| 22 | The items for both tasks were based on sequences consisting of three elements , such as : |
| 23 | By the end of 12 months the first group recorded 20 per cent lower medical claims than the other two , and the savings amounted to six times the cost of the health promotion package they had received . |
| 24 | J. M. and R. E. Pahl 's study of middle-class career and family relationships derives its material from questionnaires completed by eighty-six managers and their wives , supplemented by home interviews with sixteen couples . |
| 25 | We are not allowed to know just yet , for the London Underground rule book tells drivers to wait for 30 minutes before making an announcement , unless they 've received a message to the contrary from their controllers or there is some ‘ immediate threat to safety . ’ |
| 26 | On April 9 a bill on territorial administration ( continuing the process of administrative decentralization begun in 1982 — see pp. 37327-28 ) was adopted in the National Assembly by 287 to 286 , thanks to support from 11 independents and one UDC member , with three crucial abstentions and with the PCF as well as the RPR , the UDF and the majority of the UDC voting against . |
| 27 | Then each of the branches splits into two sub-branches . |
| 28 | Last session , 3,073 candidates enrolled on 74 courses . |
| 29 | Wycliffe had found Edwin 's books stacked on two tiers of rough shelving . |
| 30 | By 1964 there were 4.4 million TV sets ; a second TV channel began transmitting programming in April ; the amount of programming transmitted by the two channels rose from 4000 hours annually to 7400 hours ( 1964–7 ) ; the number of TV sets rose by a million a year between 1964 and 1967 . |