Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups tend to move through four different stages on their way to becoming effective in the sense described . |
| 2 | Simply nervous trainers tend to stand in one spot , feeted feet rooted like a tree to the ground . |
| 3 | It is as if strict legal considerations seem to pull in one direction , while supposedly practical policy considerations point in another . |
| 4 | Similar characteristics are piece mobility ( the number of squares open to attack by one side 's pieces ) and the control or occupation of the centre four squares . |
| 5 | He said that officials had now halved their projections of the number of Soviet Jews set to arrive in 1991 , and now expected some 200,000 , or only slightly more than in 1990 ( 185,000 ) . |
| 6 | In comparison , our ears start to hurt at 150 decibels . |
| 7 | — there are far fewer letters than sounds , so that , for example , the five written vowels have to stand for two to three times as many spoken vowels ; |
| 8 | ‘ Two hundred fans have contributed in one shape or another with people coming with a fiver in the hope it would help . |
| 9 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 10 | Teacher vacancies in schools have increased by 26 per cent during 1990 . |
| 11 | Despite Brazil 's disastrous economic policies , its reserves have trebled since 1990 , to $13 billion . |
| 12 | And so you might find that some offices have to think of two or three D S S offices and refer various people to the , to various ones . |
| 13 | It is noteworthy that while complaints and cautions have increased since 1984 convictions have not . |
| 14 | Since 1978 , average airborne lead concentrations have fallen by 93 per cent ( figure 8.12 ) . |
| 15 | Teenage pregnancies have soared by 35 per cent since 1980 . |
| 16 | As we enter the nineties we are progressing slowly with direct mail in UK politics , but national attempts by the different parties have failed for one reason or another . |
| 17 | To devise policies that directly lead to more positive and imaginative approaches , I am proposing that schools need to focus on two particular strands of educational research : first , the research that has been developed in relation to ‘ effective schools ’ , and second , the principles that underpin ‘ The Whole-School Approach to Special Educational Needs ’ . |
| 18 | Most cereal yiel yields , potato yields have risen between two and three percent per year er , in the U K. |
| 19 | Our gangs have varied between two and ten , usually being somewhere in the middle . |
| 20 | From the information available , infections seem to develop in two ways . |
| 21 | Miller considered that ‘ local effects seem to move about one tenth of local voters away from their national preferences and towards ‘ less political ’ candidates … . |
| 22 | Our lives become focussed on one aim . |
| 23 | Japan 's ruling Liberal Democrats would no more dare sanction an open-door policy for Asia 's migrant workers than would Britain 's Conservatives risk letting in thousands more from Jamaica or Pakistan . |
| 24 | Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence . |
| 25 | My feet have reduced by one size ! |
| 26 | The once-powerful communists have splintered into hundreds of pieces , the largest of which is the Democratic Party of the Left , now expected to pick up only about 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 27 | * Drought conditions are also prevailing over much of western France and Spain , where large areas have received between 10 and 50 per cent of normal rainfall . |
| 28 | This winter these perils have led to 12 of the main teams mounting more than 90 rescues , mainly since the start of the year , of which one-third were judged as serious incidents . |
| 29 | Average numbers of children per family in developing countries have fallen from six in 1960 to four today , thanks to growing use of contraceptives , according to the latest John Hopkins University Population Report . |
| 30 | Because all four countries have agreed on one frequency , the ‘ agile ’ pagers are not needed . |