Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ?
2 Alec also owns Mooney of Kerrville , Texas , and that is where the TBM 700 story started a few years ago .
3 In their last financial years , only 39 FT-SE 100 companies ' audit fees increased above the rate of inflation ; 25 companies ' audit fees were cut from 1990 to 1991 ; 30 companies paid the same amount ; and the fees of six increased at a level below the rate of inflation .
4 For example , the data of Vesnaver and Breslauer [ 13 ] on the thermodynamics of melting of two 13-mer single strand DNA oligomers indicate ΔH helix and TΔS helix values that , in both cases , average close to -10 kJ mol -1 per nucleotide at 300 K. Making the same assumption that ΔS h and ΔS hb contribute little to single strand stability , the adverse entropy change per base stack equates with only ∼2 kJ mol -1 per rotor restricted ( TΔS at 300 K ) .
5 She named him Patrick and one of her 12 grandchildren bears the same name in memory .
6 Bookies make the strapping seven-year-old gelding a 14-1 shot to provide the former point-to-point trainer with an incredible family triumph in the third week of March .
7 Our sixty-four arrests included a few for the traditional crimes of burglary ( but now at chemist 's shops ) , forgery ( but of NHS prescriptions , not bank notes ) , as well as the new offences of unlawful possession of amphetamine or LSD .
8 Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job .
9 The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 .
10 We have also checked that the mitochondrially synthesized I- Sce III protein exhibits the same specificity and cleaves the same sequence at identical positions .
11 How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ?
12 A word can be misspelled , mis-recognised or mis-written , but all three cases appear the same when looking at the pattern recogniser output .
13 It is not advisable to indulge in elegant variation ; repetition of the same word a dozen times to convey the same meaning in the same paragraph is better than risking ambiguity .
14 The three Gospels cover the same course of the life and work of Jesus .
15 The three Gospels record the same basic outline of the words and deeds of Jesus .
16 We would like to be able standardize the kit so all three teams wear the same colours .
17 Essentially , these three names mean the same thing — ‘ a piece of software ’ — and only differ in terms of size and complexity .
18 The three people look the same .
19 With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ?
20 Slowly , inch by inch , the three men advanced the half mile across no-man's-land , towards the Allied front line , pressing their faces back down into the mud whenever the moon reappeared from behind its unreliable screen .
21 The PHG 600 CE shares the same body as the other guns in the range , the main difference being the addition of a rotating temperature controller on the back of the body .
22 All three polymerases exhibit the same hierarchy .
23 A more recent survey by the National Council for Mother Tongue Teaching covering 4 LEAs reaches the same verdict particularly with regard to the inadequacy of training ( 2 ) .
24 How many pears can I buy for £1.08 if 70 almonds cost the same as 50 chestnuts , 48 chestnuts cost the same as one pomegranate , 18 pomegranates cost the same as 28 lemons , 10 lemons cost the same as 25 pears , and 108 almonds cost 9p ?
25 Against this background the terms of settlement of the 1911 strike indicated no more than a truce in the battle for the control of the supply of labour in the industry .
26 WC apps : 6 Austria gladdened a few hearts in 1978 when they beat West Germany but lost a lot of friends in 1982 when they conspired with the West Germans in the cynical exercise which froze out Algeria .
27 Now 125 people do the same job faster .
28 Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park .
29 When the return match was fought six weeks later , more than 10,000 spectators watched the same result at Third Lanark football club 's ground .
30 The following ten sections select a few of the aspects of the technique of using your native language effectively .
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