Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opportunity arose late in 1988 when the MoD had an urgent need for an RB211 engine — of a specific configuration — for fitting to an RAF transport . |
| 2 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 3 | The device 's CPU combines a 32-bit integer processor producing up to eight instructions per cycle and 64-bit floating point unit and has 200 MIPS , 25 MFLOPS performance . |
| 4 | The Contemporary Masters Index made up of ten internationally shown and collected artists shows a drop of 44% from the peak in 1990 yet an overall rise since 1985 of 235% . |
| 5 | With his parents and sister involved as well , Larkins Brewery produces up to 30 barrels a week ( each barrel is 36 gallons ) and they are sold to discerning pubs in Kent and Sussex . |
| 6 | The winner got home by two and a half lengths , but two Irish trained fillies pegged back the formidable Arab challenge of English trained fillies . |
| 7 | The " cooling-off " period in the case where the debtor makes an offer , allows the debtor the opportunity to cancel up to five days from receipt of the second copy of the agreement which must be sent to him ( s68(a) ) . |
| 8 | Under the contract , a copy of which was leaked to the media , Nur Elmy Osman , describing himself as " minister of state for health , Republic of Somalia " , granted Acher a 20-year concession to treat up to 550,000 tons a year of industrial and hospital waste , including " solid and liquid waste of the toxic type " , at a disposal facility in Somalia and to store the treated waste in a landfill . |
| 9 | He has one hand over Andy 's face , clamped tight ; his head is turned away from me , red hair fallen down over one ear . |
| 10 | This structure was only the remains of a bridge , and necessitated a crossing hanging on to one piece of rusty wire while balancing on another single line swinging perilously below . |
| 11 | Dogs began to bark , triggering a rallying cry , a droning chorus broken occasionally by one or other 's high-pitched howling . |
| 12 | Excavations at the Late Hallstatt cemetery of Donja Dolina on the Save revealed seven cowrie shell beads on a necklace made up of hundreds of amber beads and some made of coloured glass . |
| 13 | stated that he had the authority to give a supplementary grant of £100 , but asked Southern Division to plan ahead for 1994 and to produce a budget showing anticipated expenditure , to be sent to National Office . |
| 14 | Joint liability is the liability undertaken together by two or more vendors . |
| 15 | The Services needed time to grow closer together : it was just not possible to find enough officers with the experience in tri-Service co-ordination to go further in 1963 . |
| 16 | As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings . |
| 17 | The human heart beats continuously from three weeks after conception until the moment of death — about three thousand million contractions . |
| 18 | Let's go to see you tomorrow Other languages have PrOnominal systems much richer than the English one : in Japanese , pronouns are distinguished also with respect to sex of speaker , social status of referent and degree of intimacy with referent , so , for example , the second person pronoun kimi can be glossed " you , addressed by this intimate male speaker " ( Uyeno , 1971 : 16-17 ; Harada , 1976 : 511 ) ; and village Tamil has up to six singular second person pronouns according to degree of relative rank between speaker and addressee ( Brown & Levinson , 1978 : 3206 ) . |
| 19 | Surveys of dolphin tissues for mercury carried out in 1978 by Japanese scientists showed very high levels of mercury in local dolphins . |
| 20 | FRENCH exports of wines and spirits fell last year for the first time in 20 years as recession caught up with one of the country 's proudest industries . |
| 21 | The porter moved restlessly from one foot to another . |
| 22 | My feet were sore , I was roasted like Sunday pork , and I did n't even have the money to leap on to one of the buses that flashed past me . |
| 23 | Now the company want permission to work up to 20 Sundays in any year from 7.30am until 4.30pm . |
| 24 | The NYSE 's composite index moved ahead by 0.71 to 246.24 . |
| 25 | The Dow Jones industrial average rose 13.29 to 3,505.01 , while the NYSE 's composite index moved ahead by 0.71 to 246.24 . |
| 26 | the organisation of a second opportunity to meet together in 1993 . |
| 27 | In this chapter , we have assumed the worst possible case — i.e. the syntax/semantics component needs up to ten words of the utterance in order to prefer one of the alternatives — and this is why the statistics are based on the total number of complete word strings derived from the different kinds of input to the lexical access component . |
| 28 | When a spill of asbestos occurred shortly before 3 a.m. on Tuesday 27 May , workers stopped work immediately . |
| 29 | a vote given solely to one candidate at an election when the voter has the right to split his vote between two or more candidates ( hence the phrase ‘ to plump for ’ ) . |
| 30 | This was liberally interspersed with launch picnics , swimming , the services of a chef flown specially from one of the malais ' two five-star hotels back home , and ‘ ethnic entertainments ’ . |