Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second failkure occurred in a 77 year old man who presented with severe secretary diarrhoea ( 15 motions per day ) , hypokalaemia , hyponatraemia , and prerenal failure . |
| 2 | The sky was inky with cloudless black velvet studded by a million diamonds . |
| 3 | CHELSEA 's new manager , Dave Webb , yesterday discovered the magnitude of his task as his side crashed to a 2-0 defeat against Blackburn Rovers in the English Premier League to make it 13 games without a win . |
| 4 | For an instant its bright light glistened on a thousand shades of wet green leaves . |
| 5 | I do not think Palacegate Episode ran like a 2-5 shot so we will wrap it up for her this season . ’ |
| 6 | THE British Hang Gliding Association is to investigate an accident in which a Wirral man 's hang glider crashed into an 11,000 volt cable on the Great Orme , at Llandudno . |
| 7 | A recent ballot of the workforce at Hotpoint over the issue resulted in a 2-1 vote in favour of industrial action . |
| 8 | Pressure for increased influence resulted in a 1972 Act which extended codetermination rights in a number of personnel matters , such as employment contracts and training . |
| 9 | A 17.2 gain in the FT-SE 100 index turned into a 28.4 fall to 2,218.8 by the close . |
| 10 | Shirley Williams stumbled on to the scene and a 19,000 Conservative majority turned into a 5,000 SDP ( 1981 version ) one . |
| 11 | Furious Saints fans ran on to the pitch in anger just before the final whistle as their team headed for a 2–1 defeat by QPR . |
| 12 | This point emerged in a 1986 case in which the High Court accepted that a person seeking a job relies on the accuracy of a reference about his character and capabilities even if he does not actually ask for it himself . |
| 13 | The foregoing announcement appeared in an 1865 issue of the Lichfield Advertiser . |
| 14 | The duodenal cannula was opened and the common bile duct cannulated with a 6 FG ureteric catheter via the ampulla of Vater . |
| 15 | But as a fiercely-contested clash ended in a 2-1 defeat , sealed by substitute Mark Walters in a thrilling finale , he found he has been replaced by his successor Graeme Souness as king in the affections of the Anfield faithful . |
| 16 | They conclude that the effect of market share upon ROI is much less than earlier studies showed and that , broadly , a 1 per cent increase in market share led to a 0.1 per cent increase in ROI rather than the 0.5 per cent earlier supposed . |
| 17 | A late nineteenth-century Hepplewhite revival led to an 1897 reprint of the Guide by Batsford , and a modest myth grew up around George Hepplewhite , who was stated to have been apprenticed to Gillows of Lancaster and London ; in 1801 , however , they wrote ‘ We have not Hebbelthwaite 's Publication . ’ |
| 18 | Mungo 's head buzzed with a dozen more questions , but again he thought it better not to ask them . |
| 19 | The water 's surface shimmered with a million moon-fragments . |
| 20 | Not an old movie star but someone new and less defined , whose character melted into a dozen different actresses . |
| 21 | ( An example occurred in a CDL trial of TRANSPOTS . ) |
| 22 | A number of estate agents property particulars were produced in evidence , none having any great relevance to the matter at issue and seemingly collected at random when the claim related to a five or six bedroomed bungalow . |
| 23 | A ballot of the workforce resulted in a 2-1 vote in favour of industrial action . |
| 24 | Only three years earlier , a similar symposium resulted in a 1986 volume on the same subject by one of the authors . |
| 25 | A series of agreements with the Korean government aimed at formalizing Japanese control culminated in a 1905 protectorate agreement which went unchallenged by other countries . |
| 26 | Her success story resulted in a three page feature in Slimming Magazine last February . |
| 27 | Declining consumption of coal , oil and gas led to a 3 per cent fall in the UK 's carbon dioxide emissions , to 156 million tonnes , in 1992 . |
| 28 | In 1974 , the loss of FIS and the payment of tax and national insurance amounted to an 89 per cent marginal tax rate . |
| 29 | Last Monday , one man died in a ten car pile up . |
| 30 | Bishop Auckland 's lack of motivation resulted in a 15–3 home defeat by Seaham , who led 15–0 at half-time through four penalties and a drop goal . |