Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital provision to support these two areas is scarce and the 1990s are going to test even the most supportive administrations to meet urgent demands for library extensions and preservation/substitution programmes , neither of which has been an established part of institutional budget planning , nor likely to receive much more than sympathy from the funding councils , except perhaps in cases where enormous growth in student numbers have caused such pressures on space . |
| 2 | It only takes two or three volunteers on a busy market day or Saturday afternoon to gather several hundred signatures . |
| 3 | As fighting on board goes first one way and then the other , the captain strikes Thomas Fox to death with a belaying pin in an access of rage because the boy , genuinely unaware of the seamen 's plotting and almost insensible after hours at the masthead in icy weather , does not give him the names of the conspirators . |
| 4 | ‘ The decision to include all four centres — previously we have concentrated on two on an annual basis — is designed to enable companies to explore and maximise opportunities throughout the region over the 10 day period . ’ |
| 5 | He now asked Manners why the first and second prize-winners in the competition had been passed over and Scott appointed , and requested that MPs should be given the opportunity to see all three designs displayed together before any further steps |
| 6 | I had the opportunity to see several hundred children during the last month . |
| 7 | The tide retreats several hundred yards during Springs uncovering large shellfish and bait beds along the entire venue . |
| 8 | However , the story starts twenty seven years ago when Anne Marie 's mother Therese worked as a P.A. to Father Benjamin Winterborne at the time of the opening of the chaplaincy centre at Manchester University . |
| 9 | ‘ Both Dame Catherine and the porter mentioned these two corpses being found in the wood which lies between the priory and the palace . |
| 10 | The Appendix needs another eight feet to be climbable , so I decide to leave it a week . |
| 11 | Literary fiction has D M Thomas ' Flying in to Love ( Sceptre ) and Beryl Bainbridge with The Birthday Boys ( Penguin ) . |
| 12 | The Duchess mentioned another half-dozen girls , all eligible and nobly born , but Lord John was not listening . |
| 13 | Euro Disney at present has some 36 rides and attractions , compared with 45 for the Magic Kingdom in Florida and 53 at Disneyland in California . |
| 14 | The struggle involved some 18 opposition groups in all , most arms of the state — the IDA , IIRS , local authorities , An Bord Pleanala , both ordinary , decent and political police — politicians , trade unions , international experts and rank and file workers . |
| 15 | To resolve this , the execution time required by each algorithm to process all three documents was measured , and the result is shown in Figure 3.3 . |
| 16 | The cDNA sequence presented ends where the genomic sequence ( unpublished data ) diverges ; the DN10 cDNA clone contains another 547 nucleotides that represent a co-ligated cDNA derived from an unrelated non-chromosome-15 locus ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | I wonder what it is like , living in a building built five hundred years ago ? ’ |
| 18 | With constant AC and MC equal to 5 , a competitive industry produces 1 million output units . |
| 19 | Defeat became inevitable 24 hours earlier when the Progressive Democrats , junior members of Mr Reynolds ' coalition government , ended more than three years of partnership power . |
| 20 | Further analysis of the eluate using all three antisera indicated that a minor contribution was made also by a N-terminal 1–13 of G17 identified by the GP168 antiserum . |
| 21 | In 1951 the Japanese produced only 6 million tons of steel and in that same year the British steel industry produced 15 million tons . |
| 22 | The sweet-voiced harmony group , whose first LP Cooleyhighharmony sold 4.5 million copies this year , began life by busking on Philadelphia sidewalks . |
| 23 | The Review covers some 90 countries , which are listed alphabetically with a resumé of the press and general media situation in each country . |
| 24 | The association incorporates some 19,000 playgroups with 750,000 children from over half a million families . |
| 25 | After having carefully measured my horse 's girth and length from point of withers to top of tail , I discovered with some astonishment that my horse weighed 954 million pounds . |
| 26 | The Riemann tensor for space–time has 4 4 components ; in Appendix B it is shown that thanks to the symmetry of this tensor only 20 components are linearly independent . |
| 27 | The same eighteen percent of mines which has deep cut has sixty three percent of all frictional ignitions . |
| 28 | The United States had already agreed under the Mutual Defence Aid Programme to provide 70 B-29 bombers ( renamed Washingtons in RAF service ) as a stopgap , and these had started to arrive in March 1950 as part of the NATO build-up in Western Europe before the Korean War began . |
| 29 | One experiment used eight thousand tons of water and was performed in the Morton Salt Mine in Ohio ( to avoid other events taking place , caused by cosmic rays , that might be confused with proton decay ) . |
| 30 | The research uses these two sources of data to explain local variations within each city in school-leaver unemployment and in the type of employment obtained . |