Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In April 1965 he argued the case for maintaining two separate sectors , without automatic movement ‘ upwards ’ from one to the other . |
2 | The Council would be responsible for naming nine regional councils , each comprising three members including one opposition member . |
3 | If memory serves me correct , there were about say four hundred dwellings . |
4 | Half the £21m it intends to raise is earmarked for opening 15 new Poundstretcher stores this year and a further 45 in 1994 . |
5 | President-for-life Imelda Marcos yesterday dedicated a new statue of her late husband , the former president-for-life , and announced , after singing twenty-eight patriotic songs to the assembled multitudes , that she would set in motion a new scheme to clear up the streets of the city by personally firing the first bullet . |
6 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
7 | COMPANY boss Vic Barrett was slugged with a £140 bill after ordering four large brandies in a Chinese restaurant . |
8 | The result is arrived at after balancing three different types of factor : the individual interest at issue ; the benefits to be derived from added procedural safeguards ; and the costs to the administration , both direct and indirect , of complying with those procedural requirements . |
9 | Barclays slipped 4p to 351p after confirming 3,000 more job losses . |
10 | Quite obviously , the examples constitute extreme types , but , as Newtown full back Alfonso Clark , part of a family of nine , put it , after describing two similar cases : ‘ There 's nothing in between ; it 's all or nothing from West Indian families ’ ( he was from Nevis ) . |
11 | After testing nine such cleaning firms , Which ? magazine found many charged high rates for poor quality service . |
12 | The suspect hijacked the taxi in Cretan Road , abandoned it in a cul de sac after injuring two more police officers in a frenzied attack and then was arrested in nearby Bishopsgate Street . |
13 | Mary Read closed the school after providing one final line-up in the Princetown Follies in 1935 . |
14 | But after losing fifteen million pounds in the first half of the year , Tarmac has put its property division up for sale , including the Churchward development . |
15 | After attending two preparatory schools , he was admitted as a scholar to Winchester College in 1752 . |
16 | Wallace then withdrew from the contest after running 51 7 miles in 7 7 hours . |
17 | After questioning 600 non-information technology senior executives and 90 information technology ones in the UK , researcher Graham Browne concluded that hardware maintenance is not the low growth service that people previously thought it was . |
18 | After questioning 600 non-information technology directors and 1,200 information technology ones , Graham Browne of market research group International Data Corp , concluded that , unless the Government goes down the facilities management path — which he believes is questionable — the UK market is unlikely to experience the 30% per annum growth rate generally forecast . |
19 | Again it was the auto industry that led the way in the early Fifties after suffering two costly setbacks . |
20 | Richard Dunwoody , who rides Brown Windsor , was lucky not to join those on the sidelines after suffering three nasty falls yesterday . |
21 | After doing three partial water changes with mature tap water ( pH 7.2 ) I still could n't get a reading of over 6 in the Discus tank . |
22 | Sarah , 19 , had gone home for Christmas after spending three lonely months at Surrey University . |
23 | After conceding two quick strikes , Clark fouled off four pitches in a row before blasting the next into centre field . |
24 | Taylor fell for 2 , then the small , balding right-hander Phillips , after collecting two streaky boundaries , fell to Prabhakar for 8 . |
25 | A MAN was stabbed in the stomach yesterday after chasing two suspected car thieves . |
26 | David Giles gained a deserved reputation among Palace fans after playing three superb games for Swansea City against us in the FA Cup 3rd round in January 1980 but , having joined us eighteen months later , he lacked the sparkle that had been so evident then . |
27 | This mean that he probably do not wish to play as a central defender in the english premiership — central defenders in england are seldom allowed/seen going forward and ronny feels after playing three reserve games for spurs ( which is supposed to be a playing team … ) that this kind of futba does not suit him … so i guess he will be staying here — most of the top norw. players just think of one thing now — USA'94 and to be among the 24 that are travelling — and they choose club out from this : ie how much play will i get at my new club — better be going to a low-profile club in the premiership than a high profile club where i might have to sit on the bench ( Flo , Nilsen ( Sheff Utd ) , Halle , Pedersen ( Oldham ) , Fjortoft ( Swindon ) — will gets lot of play this winter — whereas players like Bjornebye ( Liverpool ) , Lydersen , ( Arsenal ) and Strandli ( Leeds ) struggle to keep/get places in their teams . |
28 | Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) . |
29 | Crenshaw , long regarded as one of the finest putters golf has seen , moved in front of Davis Love with a three-under-69 after making three critical putts each from about 15 feet near the end of his round . |
30 | The crew have just returned to England after making twenty one flights into war torn Bosnia . |