Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also the division had been responsible for organizing 5 cinema meetings and a number of smaller meetings during the campaign weeks . |
| 2 | Mr Gyula Vasarhelyi , aged 62 , of Oakdene Avenue , holds the Guinness Book of Stamps record for completing 6,000 stamp designs for 121 countries . |
| 3 | The organization carried out a bank robbery in Castellón on July 12 which was thought to have provided it with the means to launch a new offensive , and was held responsible for wounding two Army officers in Madrid on Dec. 13 and Valencia on Dec. 15 , for killing a police officer in Barcelona on Dec. 18 and for killing two Civil Guards in Gijón , northern Spain , on Dec. 28 . |
| 4 | BATTLE of Britain hero Alexander ‘ Sandy ’ Black , 72 , was jailed for 12 months yesterday after defying SEVEN lifetime driving bans . |
| 5 | A CITY council leader launched a bitter attack on the Government yesterday after announcing 3,000 job losses . |
| 6 | Last March , an acid house partygoer in Surrey collapsed and died after taking two ecstasy tablets . |
| 7 | After dropping four World Cup points in three games , concluding with last week 's 2–0 defeat in Norway , and then the embarrassment of losing in Boston , Millichip suggested he had over-ruled last week 's vote of confidence by Peter Swales , chairman of the FA international committee . |
| 8 | He was jailed for nine months by York Crown Court after admitting six trading offences . |
| 9 | Yesterday she was given a two year probation and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation , after admitting three specimen charges amounting to £1,252 and asking for 27 similar offences to be taken into account . |
| 10 | Holden , 48 , of Lyme Close , Knowsley , was given a nine-month sentence , suspended for two years , after admitting three specimen theft offences and asking for 48 others , spanning six months , to be considered . |
| 11 | The owners of an Indian restaurant have been ordered to pay almost five thousand pounds in fines and costs after admitting seventy-three food hygiene offences . |
| 12 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 13 | McGee , who began as an apprentice with Middlesbrough but was released after making 30 League appearances , has had a unsuccessful spell with Leicester . |
| 14 | After winning two league championship medals at Old Trafford , Law eventually returned on a free transfer to Maine Road . |
| 15 | AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available . |
| 16 | she 's started Liam , they 're having a pre-packed school at Durham choir boys , whatever it is , cos he 's from school , apparently the locality of demanding six year olds and under so they and another la labouring school |
| 17 | By contemporary standards forward armament on the Perth was heavy , comprising a 37mm COW automatic gun mounted in the bow cockpit capable of firing 1½ pound shells at 100 rounds per minute . |
| 18 | He had also to tackle the technical problems of bringing two curriculum systems into one entity . |
| 19 | Delegates discussed ways of compensating 50 Third-World countries most seriously affected by the Gulf crisis and criticized the international community for failing to respond adequately to the consequences of the economic blockade of Iraq . |
| 20 | We see this as sufficient justification to go ahead at a pilot level of say eight student places ( rather than 15 for a later course with two lecturers ) , but also a warning that considerable effort will have to be put into consulting with partners both to incorporate their main concerns , and to advertise the course . |
| 21 | The move comes after an Antrim father and daughter were found guilty of keeping four pit bulls illegally . |
| 22 | Realising that an individually tailored , quality service at a competitive cost could no longer be fully satisfied by a traditional branch network , Midland has taken the unique step of establishing 13 District Service Centres ( DSCs ) to process cheques centrally . |
| 23 | THE Education Secretary Mr John MacGregor conceded at question time yesterday that his predecessor Mr Kenneth Baker 's target of establishing 20 City Technology Colleges by the end of this year had been ‘ overambitious ’ . |
| 24 | Darryl Chapman , 29 , is accused of possessing three rifle magazines , and the other three — Leslie Wheeler , 24 , Robert Thompson , 25 , and William Casement , 31 — face charges of possessing ammunition . |
| 25 | Within a couple of days of adding two Nitrex boxes there was a bacterial bloom of green water , reducing visibility to three inches , but the Puffer and Caulerpa are fine . |
| 26 | He thought of holding one shell back but he could n't be bothered . |
| 27 | It has 32Kb instruction cache , 64Kb data cache , and two 80M-byte per second Micro Channel buses each capable of supporting eight input-output adaptors . |
| 28 | Although convinced that she had been drugged before the race at York , she had little chance of persuading three Jockey Club stewards that she had not been drunk , out of her depth , hysterical , and she did n't want Nick to know either . |
| 29 | Despite having 48 North West seats , compared with the Conservatives ’ 29 and the Liberal Democrats ' two , Labour was bitterly disappointed by its performance . |
| 30 | Indeed , they are updated in ‘ unreal time ’ , which is a luddite 's way of saying three working days . |