Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study done by Edwin Colbert and his colleagues showed that a tiny 50 gramme ( 1.76 oz ) alligator heated up 1 °C every minute and a half from the Sun , while a large alligator some 260 times bigger took seven and a half minutes . |
| 2 | Basically the same sentence turns up six times in succession — a phenomenon which might otherwise be thought to exist only in the worst kind of foreign language teaching drills . |
| 3 | His biggest moment came ten years ago when his marvellous mare Sobarattled up 11 wins , including the valuable Stewards ' Cup at Goodwood . |
| 4 | Great rift goes back 500 years |
| 5 | A BRITISH soldier beat up four women after a drinking binge . |
| 6 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 7 | Soldier beats up four women |
| 8 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 9 | Any attempt to pick out one concept , such as that of an individual , and theorise about it , will always be vulnerable to the challenge , ‘ But how is that concept to be explained ? ’ |
| 10 | Flat owners face losing their homes after being landed with a bill for ground rent going back fifteen years . |
| 11 | But now , the soft clicks coming with typical irregularity , he listened to them painfully and let his mind slide back ten years to what he must remember , to the truth he must recall if he were going to be able to tell lies . |
| 12 | A special lining tape is available which has two flaps of tape running along one edge , between which the top of the lining is sandwiched . |
| 13 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 14 | THE production of an average size family car gobbles up 3,000 litres of water while a pint of beer takes eight pints of water . |
| 15 | Thanks to this device many thousands of birds have been caught , weighed , measured and then had a lightweight metal ring clamped round one leg before being released in the hope that , when it is next caught ( or perhaps found dead ) , the number stamped on the ring will be seen and reported . |
| 16 | Its counterpart on Ermine Street was a two-phase structure , beginning life as a building measuring 25.9 by 13.1 m ( 84½ by 43 ft ) , with a shingled roof carried on two rows of massive posts 5.8 m ( 19ft ) apart . |
| 17 | The Fourth Division side ran out 4-1 winners . |
| 18 | Unbeknownst to club officials , ‘ Royst ’ was in fact only a visitor to this country and his permit ran out two months ago . |
| 19 | It is interesting to compare these figures with the results of a survey of interim reporting carried out 10 years ago for the Institute publication The role of interim accounts and preliminary profit announcements in financial reporting in the UK ( 1982 ) . |
| 20 | He laughed deep in his throat , and , even as a tiny part of her rebelled against the triumphant sound , it dissolved into nothing as his mouth closed over one nipple , his tongue flicking lazily over the hard bud . |
| 21 | VICTIM SUPPORT has come a long way from the six-month experiment set up 10 years ago by a group of concerned professionals in Bristol . |
| 22 | Microsoft stock closed up 3.25 points . |
| 23 | A task force set up two years ago to raise extra money from international business has enabled it to more than double the number of support staff to five ( last year it raised £300,000 ) . |
| 24 | If the spin is " up " the electron goes off one way , if it is " down " the electron goes off the other way , as in the figure . |
| 25 | So once Posi had drifted the ship down near the surface , I prepared myself for my descent — the cylinder in a carry-net slung over one shoulder , a hand raised to hold on to my hairpiece . |
| 26 | The British 2nd Corps encountered the enemy on 10 October west of La Bassee , but , in face of heavy fighting , the German thrust petered out 10 days later with the British still about 1.6km/1ml west of the town . |
| 27 | The Cabinet ended its marathon session to work out 1993/94 spending yesterday . |
| 28 | ‘ Granny came up one day and saw her , and she said , ‘ You ca n't go on like this : I 'm taking the boy back with me . ’ |
| 29 | Now this other girl came down one Saturday morning and we had a letter to say that I 'd passed and I said well , so have I . |
| 30 | It means a bit of cheating , will give you some idea of how they , at level one , on a picture a child , you 'd expect a child to pick out two things about buildings . |