Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter set up his artillery in the Broyle and bombarded the defendants for eight days before resistance collapsed . |
| 2 | Reduce heat and cook , covered for 30–35 mins until chicken is cooked through . |
| 3 | When performing this same task for forty minutes after sleep loss subjects began by showing faster responses to the centrally placed lights than the peripheral ones , like rested subjects . |
| 4 | Alvaro Cunhal , 79 , resigned on Dec. 4 after 32 years as secretary-general of the Portuguese Communist Party and was appointed head of the party 's new national council ; Carlos Carvalhas was elected as his successor . |
| 5 | After 12 years as president , Husni Mubarak is rediscovering an old paradox . |
| 6 | The agreement , under which the government expected to save $1,000 million , included options for the creditor banks ( i ) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure ; ( ii ) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level ( thought to be $26 per barrel ) ; ( iii ) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them ; or ( iv ) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts ( estimated to be 60-65 per cent ) should the banks be willing to take the loss . |
| 7 | The hearts of hopes of Oxford fans must have stopped beating at Peterborough on saturday when their team went a goal down , after 35 minutes as Sterling banged one in. 5 defeats in a row has been dreadful . |
| 8 | After 35 years as president of the company he founded back in 1957 , Ken Olsen will give up the reins at Digital Equipment Corp this October , aged 66 . |
| 9 | The crucial moment after 82 minutes as defender Richard Smith fails to head clear Chris Malkin 's volleyed pass forward . |
| 10 | Maureen Walker is a ‘ design writer and stylist ’ — after ten years as Home Editor of the Sunday Times and writing a book on interiors , she has a wealth of experience to call on . |
| 11 | Emerge on to estate road , turn right and after 50 yds where road bends right , take gate ahead and cross parkland , passing just to left of Fawsley church . |
| 12 | After nine years as Opposition leader , Mr Kinnock , 50 , is expected to announce on Monday that he will not put his name forward for re-election at the party 's annual conference . |
| 13 | WEST HAM assistant manager Harry Redknapp was handed a Pounds 100,000 ex gratia payment when he left Bournemouth after nine years as manager , club accounts have revealed . |
| 14 | this is for fun … the Oxford board will decide but they watch central south so here 's your chance … we 've a shortlist of ten … first is Steve Coppell … he left Palace at the end of last season after nine years as manager … lots of experience … or how about Ray Clemence the ex England goalie … he lost his job at Spurs in the summer and would welcome a manager 's job … he could work with Doug Livermore who was also pushed aside when Ossie Ardiles moved into White Hart Lane … |
| 15 | this is for fun … the Oxford board will decide but they watch central south so here 's your chance … we 've a shortlist of ten … first is Steve Coppell … he left Palace at the end of last season after nine years as manager … lots of experience … or how about Ray Clemence the ex England goalie … he lost his job at Spurs in the summer and would welcome a manager 's job … he could work with Doug Livermore who was also pushed aside when Ossie Ardiles moved into White Hart Lane … |
| 16 | Now after twelve years as convener at the huge Merseyside plant where he had effectively established shop-floor control after a long and bitter struggle , he had been thrown out by his own union members . |
| 17 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 18 | After five years as player-manager at Glasgow Rangers , Mr Souness has talked this season of mellowing . |
| 19 | Old world and new SIR Kenneth James , formerly our man in Mexico , is retiring after five years as director-general of Canning House , the institute in Belgrave Square that maintains good relations with Latin America and the Iberian peninsula . |
| 20 | Carter Brown , who only last year retired after twenty-two years as director of the National Gallery of Art , has again assumed an enormously influential position in the American art world . |
| 21 | Left along road ( ignore signpost after 200 yds for footpath to Glen Coe ( a ) ) for 300 yds , then across road-bridge , then turn left ( no path ) and follow contour of hill round , with stream down on left . |
| 22 | After seven years as secretary in Convocation Office , Mrs. Judith Nelson has moved on to another post within the University . |
| 23 | Bake for 50–60 minutes until pastry is crisp . |
| 24 | The transient errors induced by a manoeuvre can cause pressure-dependent instruments to misread for up to three seconds at low altitude and up to ten seconds at altitudes of the order of 30,000 feet after movement of the control surfaces has effectively ceased . |
| 25 | Any new vein discovered , but left unwrought for the space of six months after notice was given by the estate to the captain or purser of the mine , could be licenced to any other person to work . |
| 26 | ‘ Because it is permitted only to charge a profit of sixty pfennigs if soda is served with whisky . ’ |
| 27 | Not that Dare was brainless-Seconds considered John Kennedy 's assassination , and Do n't You Want Me was as perceptive a snapshot of Eighties mores as pop would produce . |
| 28 | Grahame Thomson , director of the Scottish Daily Newspaper Society , expresses grave concern at the possible impact on sales , while accountants Price Waterhouse produced a report forecasting the closure of 245 local and regional papers and the loss of 2,500 jobs if VAT is imposed at 17.5 per cent . |
| 29 | Official figures out yesterday indicated that British consumers saved at the lowest rate for 31 years while living standards actually declined 0.6 per cent between the first and second quarters of the year . |
| 30 | Spread the insides of the shells with butter and bake for 6–8 minutes until crisp . |