Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 None of the other parties apparently secured the 7 per cent minimum required to achieve representation , although five seats had been reserved for the two Christian Assyrian Parties .
2 PREMIER Consolidated Oilfields yesterday reported a 24 p.c. fall in full-year profits to £8.91m pre-tax , on turnover 24 p.c. lower at £32m .
3 Lungs initially develop from an outgrowth of the sheet that lines the gut near the mouth and then this outgrowth branches repeatedly to give the millions of microscopic lobes in the lung .
4 The Hospital Infection Society Working Party 's guidelines also suggested a two tier approach and gave a list of 16 inoculation risk categories of patients .
5 The authors also introduced the two main ways in which the propagation of radiation through leaves is modelled , the deterministic models in which the radiation flux is determined by means of differential equations , and the stochastic models which attempt to identify the probabilities of the various events in radiation transfer within the canopy .
6 Modern production methods now mean the 600 can be produced on the same line as the 800 .
7 But his eyes never left the four men before him .
8 The Christian Social Union ( CSU , part of Kohl 's coalition government ) and organizations specifically representing the 12,000,000 Germans who fled what became Polish territory after 1945 , had called for the treaty to include a " right of return " , and for German " topographical designations " to have official status in the traditional settlement areas of the German minority in Poland .
9 But equally , the moths only took a hundred years to make their change .
10 Gallup in September 1980 asked voters to indicate which of various descriptions best suited the two candidates and Reagan was placed well ahead of Carter on several leadership questions : ‘ Has strong leadership qualities ’ , 65 per cent — 31 per cent ; ‘ Decisive sure of himself , 69 per cent — 37 per cent ; ‘ Has a well defined progam for moving the country ahead ’ , 53 per cent — 27 per cent ; ‘ You know where he stands on the issues ’ , 54 per cent — 33 per cent .
11 Reynards also won the two opening rounds of the British Formula 3 Championship which continues on Easter Monday at Thruxton , Hants .
12 Many outsoles now combine the two and use the carbon rubber in the heel or other high impact points .
13 VAUXHALL Motors yesterday reported a 69 per cent leap in pre-tax profits for last year to £223.7 million .
14 These calculations also exclude the billions of pounds which have been spent by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority on research , whose profligacy we have already noted .
15 VAUXHALL MOTORS today reported a 1992 pre-tax profit of £223.7m up 69pc on its 1991 figure .
16 And to top it all the Allies then imposed a 26 per cent tax on all goods and materials imported into Germany .
17 However , the non-markers again included the three informants who read very little science fiction , and the fact that the phrase occurs towards the end of the passage suggests that readers have become accustomed to the science fictional discourse model to the extent that elements of it display diminishing values of foregrounding .
18 Speculators who bought the options before the bid and sold 24 hours later showed a 100 per cent profit .
19 The last three West Indian wickets were also to fall cheaply , but before that the batsmen had done rather better ; Greenidge and Haynes posted another century partnership and Lloyd and Gomes both reached the nineties .
20 The intersecting domain will under extreme conditions only contain the two surfaces describing the pin , whilst under close fit conditions will also contain elements of both the cylindrical and end surface of the hole itself .
21 Aborigines always distinguish the two .
22 Under Chapter II , the Regulations also subsumed the 1913 Regulations for Tutorial Classes but reduced the maximum size of classes from thirty-two to twenty-four students .
23 Nonetheless , Peters 's second and third questions also highlight the three main problems encountered with all land use work : first , the multiplicity of data sources shown in-Table 8.1 ; second , the different temporal and spatial units employed by these sources ; and third , and perhaps most important of all , the different classifications involved .
24 No wonder viewers often get the two Jennys muddled and call me Jenny Seagrove .
25 When a new disease attacked the US maize crop in 1970 , the kissing cousins in the fields had no genetic defence : farmers overall lost a billion dollars and some unlucky ones lost their farms as well .
26 Next year 's conference will be in Birmingham , with plans underway to hold the 1995 sessions in the V&A .
27 ( 1987 ) conclude that dementia prevalence increases exponentially with age with rates approximately doubling every 5.1 years .
28 This arrangement has helped to reduce the potential oppressiveness of the resulting internal corridor because the northern ‘ strip ’ of service rooms also accommodates the two staircases that serve the two publicly accessible upper floors of the building and natural light spills into the ends of the corridor through the glazed enclosures of these features , reducing the room 's apparent length .
29 Intel Corp president Andy Grove told the annual meeting that the company 's chip business remains strong and that it is ready to fight new competitors in the market place , Reuter reports : ‘ Our response to all these competitors has been to concentrate on getting better and faster products into the hands of our customers , ’ Grove said , adding that Intel was meeting demand for the 80486 but dealer and customer inventories were tight ; capital spending this year is now likely to hit $1,800m , up from the previously planned $1,600m ; executive vice-president Craig Barrett said the next generation P6 microprocessor will probably be unveiled in late 1995 or early 1996 ; Intel holders also approved a two for one share split to take effect in June .
30 Patients then received a three week course of tripotassium dicitrato-bismuthate ( De-Nol ) ( 120 mg four times daily ) , metronidazole ( 400 mg three times daily ) , and amoxycillin ( 500 mg three times daily ) .
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