Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent ad for follow-on milk , quoting from an article in the British Medical Journal , stated that cow 's milk given at six months caused ‘ subclinical but appreciable gastro-intestinal bleeding in about a third of children . ’ |
| 2 | Where students are following a joint honours curriculum consisting of two languages , two months must be spent additionally in the country of the second language . |
| 3 | IF so many countries can pledge troops to help relieve the crisis in Somalia , why is Britain 's support limited to two planes ? |
| 4 | The feedforward circuit has a retina consisting of fifteen inputs . |
| 5 | True blank verse is written in iambic pentameters ( that is , each line is divided into five metrical feet , each foot consisting of two syllables with the stress on the second syllable ) . |
| 6 | He took a cardboard box and from it drew a toy consisting of two monkeys with bright brown fur and boot-button eyes . |
| 7 | N-plant leaked for five hours |
| 8 | When an elastic wave is obliquely incident at a fluid-solid interface , the refracted wave splits into two components : dilatational and transverse . |
| 9 | A qualified teacher will have undergone a three-year course consisting of twenty hours a week in college as well as home study . |
| 10 | Gregory and Lock were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang international airport on February 6 when police said they found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin . |
| 11 | Lock and a companion , Sandra Gregory , 27 , from Aberdeenshire , were arrested at Bangkok 's Don Muang airport on 6 February after police found a condom filled with 150 grams of heroin in the woman 's body . |
| 12 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 13 | The range has eight firing points on two levels . |
| 14 | We let the Pacer loose on two testers — one fast , one slow . |
| 15 | He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks . |
| 16 | But as a slogan to round off 100 years of New York history , it would be hard to improve on the neatness of ‘ Power to the Boroughs ’ . |
| 17 | The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opens this month in a privately funded $150-million building located on 1.9 acres of government land adjacent to the National Mall . |
| 18 | A TERRIFIED woman driver fled across six lanes of a motorway after a man tried to grab her as she sat in her broken-down car . |
| 19 | Or that on their first-ever real takeoff during base checks at Prestwick , most pilots have as much difficulty keeping at 1,500 feet circuit height as does a low-hour student in a Cessna 152 ? |
| 20 | That damage occurred in two ways . |
| 21 | There 's an Ultra Low Cost ( ULC ) Alpha chip in the works at Digital Equipment Corp targeted at X Windows terminals , palmtops and embedded applications , according to the ‘ Terry Shannon on DEC ’ newsletter that arrived on our desk on Christmas Eve . |
| 22 | In 1990 the European parliament voted on two reports calling for action on age discrimination . |
| 23 | The Ukrainian parliament voted by 340 votes to six on May 13 to annul the independence declaration as against the Constitution . |
| 24 | On June 13 he received a standing ovation from the European Parliament in Strasbourg ; on the following day the Parliament voted by 177 votes to 47 with five abstentions in favour of a resolution to maintain sanctions [ see p. 37521 for June EC Foreign Ministers ' summit meeting in Dublin ; for February United Kingdom decision to lift some sanctions see p. 37234 ] . |
| 25 | The Ministry of Defence objected on three grounds : the increase in nuclear missiles available to the West was operationally unnecessary and would only add to the existing nuclear overkill ; mixed manning was a formula for military disaster ; and the cost of the British share would have to come out of the already overstretched Defence budget . |
| 26 | He left PC Jones in a pool of blood with a jaw shattered in three places . |
| 27 | Roy Spring , clerk of works ( left ) , directs the endless repairs to the Cathedral , at present surrounded by 28 miles of scaffolding ( bottom ) . |
| 28 | The record for late arrival of papers at present stands at eight days before the actual meeting ! |
| 29 | Would not a more reasonable decision have been to fix the subscription at the direct debit level but offer a discount of £5.00 for payment say within 14 days of the due date ? |
| 30 | It had a deep ‘ sweetheart ’ neckline , little puffed sleeves and a full skirt gathered into three tiers . |