Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 2 | T n regions are not affected by the antibiotic and that the major cleavage products correspond to the two GC steps . |
| 3 | Up to two adaptors attach to the 200 at £386 each . |
| 4 | These cavities correspond to the seven chakras or energy centres in the human entity . |
| 5 | Isolated pockets of Labour support for lesbians and gays continued , but the rest of 1987 saw Labour silent in the face of renewed homophobic attacks by the Tories — the reference to the Positive Images issue in the 1987 election propaganda , the advocacy of traditional family values in the Department of Education and Science circular on sex education . |
| 6 | Over 80% of Africa 's proved oil reserves lie in the four OPEC countries Nigeria , Algeria , Libya and Gabon and these countries will account for over 50% of oil consumption in the year 2000 . |
| 7 | Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved . |
| 8 | For any infinite sequence of symbols 1,2,3 and 4 allowed by Fig. 6.6b we can find a vertical line of points ( arrived at by taking away " two-thirds ' of an interval an infinite number of times ) from which trajectories pass through the four shaded areas in the prescribed sequence . |
| 9 | A number of recent books deal with the 1945–51 Labour government . |
| 10 | Heads call for the three Rs |
| 11 | It 's billed as a dog agility extravaganza , as hundreds of pets compete across the Three Counties showground in Malvern.Over the next six days the dogs will be leaping over hurdles , jumping through hoops , and careering through tunnels . |
| 12 | Within each grouping , the two columns correspond to the two definitions of ‘ correct ’ given above . |
| 13 | They are likely to be revised as the circumstances of mothers ' lives change through the 1990s . |
| 14 | Several other first-century texts speak of the two ‘ orders ’ of bishop and deacon ; the title bishop is also applied to people called presbyters . |
| 15 | United States bankers object to the CMI's use of the UN/EDIFACT standards because they use ANSI X12 . |
| 16 | Whilst DCT would not accept an Australian squadron , he did accept a Canadian squadron — No 405 — because he said the Canadians were actually getting their replacement crews direct from No 6 Group , which was the Canadian group wholly supported financially by the Canadian government . |
| 17 | SATURDAY , AM Neighbourhood clean-up patrols gather by the thousands to sweep up the mess . |
| 18 | Many of these models date from the 1960s and 1970s and contain a ‘ cold war ’ vision of the world . |
| 19 | Full marks to Wallace , who finished with a seven feet putt for a 73 after almost holing his tee shot , a four iron , at the short 14th . |
| 20 | Sheffield Eagles stick with the 15 which did duty at Wigan last Monday for their clash with Warrington at Wilderspool . |
| 21 | The multi-primitive lattices fall within the seven crystal systems . |
| 22 | Its movements relate to the four points of the compass , and a great number of movements have to be remembered . |
| 23 | BANBRIDGE Academy pupil Mark Tumilty played a starring role in Cork yesterday as the Irish under-18 hockey team opened their Home Countries campaign with a 4–2 win over Wales . |
| 24 | Strictly speaking not all of the measures within these areas fall within the 1992 programme but given their inter-relationship they need to be looked at together . |
| 25 | You 've heard about this symbol of the brotherhood of man set in welcoming Perugia with its ancient traditions of hospitality , where every year bright-eyed , bushy-tailed youngsters come from the four corners of the world to study Italian culture and promote peace and international understanding . ’ |
| 26 | Women from manual origins have about a 1.5 per cent chance of a top occupation , though 10 per cent go into lower professional jobs ; 48 per cent enter office work . |
| 27 | It is likely that a good many protestant loyalists oscillate between the two and still have to come to their moment of decision , one that is likely to be forced on them by future events . |
| 28 | Originally conceived as the joint Gabcikovo-Nagymáros project under a 1977 agreement , work on the dam was suspended after Hungary withdrew from the scheme in 1989 [ see p. 37048 ] . |
| 29 | If a factory chimney dumps smoke on a thousand gardens nearby it may be very expensive to collect 1 from each household to bribe the factory to cut back to the socially efficient amount . |
| 30 | Typically , these governments talk on the one hand of establishing socialism , and on the other of wanting to work within the constraints of a democratic constitution . |