Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The grant has led one historian to question Edward 's mental state , but this is an over-reaction .
2 The grant has led one historian to question Edward 's mental state , but this is an over-reaction .
3 NO British runner has won two golds in one Olympics .
4 IBM Corp has won 88000 RISC aficionado , Harris Corp , for the PowerPC RISC IBM is developing with Motorola Inc and Apple Computer Inc as part of an alliance aimed at the US Federal market .
5 on a single carriageway where a lane has got four lanes
6 Ms McInstry said British Rail has recorded 40 cases of trackside vandalism in the region this year alone .
7 A POTENTIAL bidder for part of a privatised British Rail has named two lines which could close to ‘ rationalise services and reduce costs ’ .
8 The 21-year-old striker has scored seven goals in 13 Premier League games since a surprise £1 million move from Millwall in September .
9 The Rangers striker has spent two weeks on the sidelines with a calf strain after scoring 32 times in all competitions this season .
10 The Take Home Sales Division has announced two promotions within its ranks .
11 Mr Noir 's popularity rating has jumped 12 points since his resignation , making him the person on the right whom the French would ‘ most like to see playing an important role in the future ’ .
12 IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Computer Co has added two members in the IBM Speech Recognition Family , VoiceType Control for Windows and VoiceType 2 : VoiceType Control for Windows offers customers with an 80386SX processor and up the ability to manipulate the Windows 3.1 environment and existing Windows 3.1 applications with spoken commands such as File Save , Font Bold and Next Window ; VoiceType Control for Windows costs $130 , works with Sound Blaster audio boards , and is speaker-independent ; VoiceType 2 is designed for general dictation and input to MS-DOS applications , and enables users to continue to control their existing applications , such as word processing , databases or spreadsheet , simply by talking ; it comes ready to use with ‘ many popular software products such as Quicken , WordPerfect 5.1 , dBase and more ’ , and users can add their own commands ; VoiceType 2 , with the IBM M-Audio Capture and Playback Adaptor , runs on 80386SX and above personal computers and automatically adapts to a speaker 's unique voice pattern and allows for accents and other individual speech characteristics ; it costs $2,200 and will be available in late May .
13 If they have an arrow in the gold they are paid two shillings ( no decimalisation here ) , if they have a hit in the red , blue or black they receive one shilling , but if they have hit the outer white the bowman has to pay one shilling into the pool .
14 The user has to drill two holes in the sides of the centre recess to fit a particular machine .
15 In the 16 years they have lived here , the kitchen has had three transformations , all carried out by John .
16 the amount of memory a computer needs to describe one character of text , data or a program .
17 The writer has collected three instances of this practice : two in the Stowmarket district and one near Mendlesham where the farmer who recalled it made the comment after the cold and wet spring of 1963 : ‘ I do n't know how those owd bors who used to set on the seed-bed would get on today : I reckon they 'd get themselves right chilled . ’
18 Membership may be given if a writer has had three works recorded for sale to the public which have been released by a recognized recording label lone which is registered in the Music Master catalogue ) .
19 The order comes at the end of 2 years in which Dowty Aerospace has shed 1,500 jobs in Gloucestershire .
20 THE Test and County Cricket Board has announced two changes to the itinerary for New Zealand 's tour to Britain next season .
21 The board has lodged five complaints with the LEA and is questioning whether it is getting value for money .
22 The Viral Hepatitis Prevention Board has identified five principles essential to any programme aimed at preventing exposure to blood-borne infections such as hepatitis B.
23 To date , the Board has had three meetings , while the Committee has only met once , so that it is still too early to be sure how it will operate .
24 The buyer of the contract has made 100 profit which he receives from the seller of the contract .
25 A severe allergic reaction to the drug has killed five Americans .
26 Can the right hon. Gentleman explain why the Department of Transport , whose budget has increased three times the rate of that of the Scottish Office , can find £1.5 billion for additional railway improvements in the south of England , but can not find £80 million to electrify the Edinburgh-Aberdeen railway line ?
27 Astec has sold 1,300 licences of the C programming environment since its release in Japan in September 1990 .
28 Suppose a seller with just 12 bottles of port in stock agrees to sell 12 bottles of port to a particular buyer .
29 The existing tranche of the programme involves supplying 72 Tornado aircraft , 30 Hawk trainers , three minesweepers along with extensive spares and support from 3,000 BAe people in Saudi Arabia .
30 Only when a batch has completed one process can it be moved to the next .
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