Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] [vb -s] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But none of these problems is unique to acid house : the Notting Hill Carnival continues for three days , attracts vast crowds , involves large-scale drug consumption , and is stupefyingly noisy . |
| 2 | The Guam Legislature consists of 21 members ( senators ) who are popularly elected for two years . |
| 3 | Hill House caters for 12 mentally handicapped residents with learning difficulties . |
| 4 | The UnixWare family consists of three core modules : the $500 Personal Edition client , the $2,500 Application Server and the $1,000 Software Development Kit ( SDK ) . |
| 5 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 6 | December trading accounts for 12 to 25% , sometimes hitting 30% , of the annual turnover of general bookselling in the UK . |
| 7 | The largest mass picket of the dispute , 4,000 people , assembled outside the company 's Warrington print works on 30 November to make its ritual attempt to block the route of newspaper delivery vans . |
| 8 | The main Manchester-London line runs alongside one side of the garden , and a heavy goods line along the other . |
| 9 | O. pachyphylax disagrees in two characters with the descriptions of other species of Ophiolebes , including the type species O. scorteus Lyman , 1878 . |
| 10 | The best ingredients for a V8 Land Rover are a good SDI engine and flywheel Series II gearbox with overdrive 3 54 diffs and Range Rover type wheels with 205 x 16 tyres Take the brakes from the LWB 6 cylinder with servo and fit the whole lot together on a very sound chassis vehicle An ex-military Series 11 or lightweight would be a sound basis and could be transformed into a good vehicle ( see ads in LR0 for a guide to purchase price ) |
| 11 | The Savoy Group consists of six hotels , four in London , The Savoy , Claridge 's , The Connaught , The Berkeley . |
| 12 | According to Aries , its HyperSparc workstation performs at 133 MIPS , 42 MFLOPS and 70 SPECmarks ( 66 SPECint92 and 88 SPECfp92 ) . |
| 13 | However , the ending of UK exchange controls in 1979 , and government stimulation of a relaxation in trading regulations ( ‘ Big Bang' of 1986 ) helped to secure London 's recognized position , with Tokyo and New York , among the world 's three leading financial centres , which together , with their respective working days , provide for 24-hour activity in world financial markets . |
| 14 | The last Soviet troops left the country in 1958 and Romania has not taken part in any Warsaw Pact exercises since 1968 . |
| 15 | As Horse and Hound points out , the current UK population stands at 56 million , or 21.5 million households . |
| 16 | CHINA Vice-president dies at 85 |
| 17 | The Cotswold Way runs for 100 miles from Bath in Avon to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire . |
| 18 | But in the UK copyright lasts for 50 years , so they ca n't be sold here . ’ |
| 19 | Right : Laminated pine type GGL Velux window turns through 180 for easy cleaning |
| 20 | My contribution to the Casey affair dates from 1986 , when I wrote a book , Desire and Denial . |
| 21 | The Lyon show opens on 6 May , Lodz opens on 22 May and both close on 27 September . |
| 22 | BOOK TO BILL RATIO SLIPS TO 1.13 IN APRIL FROM 1.17 IN MARCH |
| 23 | Battle of Britain ace dies aged 84 |
| 24 | The first US space walks for five years were made during the shuttle mission , one in an emergency to free an antenna on the GRO which had failed to operate , and the other to test equipment for the construction of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 25 | With the abolition of US capital controls in 1974 all US residents and corporations have had total freedom to invest their funds inside or outside the USA . |
| 26 | The Oxford region has about one hundred and forty of the nine hundred cases nationally , and general manager Bob Nichols says they certainly would n't seek to settle out of court . |
| 27 | The earliest reference to Droitwich salt occurs in 716 , when King Ethelbald granted a salt pit there to Evesham Abbey . |
| 28 | Yes , I want to leave early tomorrow , because I 'm , I 'm not going to rush for a train , I do n't want to be caught thinking oh the last train to Stow Market goes at four o'clock and I 've got to run for it I got to be prepared to miss the train . |
| 29 | The Essex group consists of 17 Young Farmers Clubs , and all were represented at the show . |
| 30 | Key points of the accord included ( i ) a set-aside , in the first year , of 15 per cent of the EC farmland currently devoted to growing oilseeds , and a set-aside of at least 10 per cent in future years [ see also p. 39170 ] , in return for the lifting of punitive US tariffs on EC food and drink imports [ see below ] ; ( ii ) restriction of oilseed production to 5.128 million hectares [ not 5,128 million hectares as given on p. 39170 ] , thereby cutting EC production in future years to between 8,500,000 and 9,700,000 tonnes , down from a peak of 13,000,000 tonnes in 1991 [ ibid. ] , in return for curbs on US exports of soya beans and other cereal substitutes to the EC ( so-called rebalancing " ibid. ) ; and ( iii ) trimming the volume of subsidised EC farm exports by 21 per cent ( rather than 24 per cent as proposed in a GATT draft accord " see p. 38746 ) , cutting EC internal price supports by 20 per cent and reducing EC export subsidies by 36 per cent . |