Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a matter of concern , she said , that no money was included in the council 's 1993/94 budget to continue the six units , at Bangor , Deganwy , Caernarfon , Llangefni , Pwllheli and Blaenau Ffestiniog , beyond August . |
| 2 | The recipes do n't actually tell the adventurers what the potions do , of course ( although an Alchemist among the adventurers is allowed an Int test with a +20 bonus to guess the general nature of the effects ) , but they are worth 150 GCs apiece to an alchemist . |
| 3 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 4 | NICK FALDO is 7-2 favourite to win the Million Dollar Challenge , which begins in Sun City today . |
| 5 | Before starting the study , pressures were recorded for 30 minutes to check the correct functioning of the recording system and to allow the subjects to accommodate to the catheters . |
| 6 | Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class . |
| 7 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |
| 8 | ‘ We started from the Linn O'Dee and took 7.5 hours to walk the 20 miles through the mountains to Coylumbridge , ’ said Murray . |
| 9 | What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ? |
| 10 | THE Government 's decision to levy value-added tax on domestic fuel and power has prompted ScottishPower to carry out a review over the next 12 months to determine the possible impact the tax will have on its 1.6 million domestic customers . |
| 11 | Argos said it would be important over the coming 12 months to contain the additional cost pressures from the pound 's devaluation . |
| 12 | It 's expected to take just over 2 weeks to pick the 46 acres of hops grown at Withington Court Farm in Herefordshire . |
| 13 | He had execution of the warrant for his arrest stayed for twenty-one days to allow the young peer to appeal . |
| 14 | A DoH Press Release reported that a total of 113 applications to join the second wave of Trusts had been received . |
| 15 | Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Iterated 's focus is on quick decompression techniques , compression itself is relatively lengthy , and even with a custom-built processor board sitting in an 80486 machine , the system will take between 25 and 30 seconds to determine the mathematical functions needed to regenerate each television frame . |
| 18 | Prost clocked a record qualifying lap time of one minute 21.179 seconds to eclipse the best efforts of team mate Damon Hill , and must now be a warm favourite to seal his fourth world drivers ' title with victory tomorrow . |
| 19 | Now each employee at British Steel needs only 4.8 hours to do the same job . |
| 20 | In November 1927 it took 300 men some six hours to carry the giant rosary which surrounds the statue up from Santo António , in Funchal . |
| 21 | , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd . |
| 22 | Which was good from the point of view that you took thirteen minutes to do the first three and then two minutes to do the last , last three . |
| 23 | At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) . |
| 24 | A February 1991 decision to devalue the Guyanan dollar by 56 per cent ( from G$45 to G$101.75 to the US dollar ) led to sharp increases in food , fuel and transport costs . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , parliament voted on Nov. 12 to grant the government special powers over the next six months to implement the economic reform programme , including the authority to change prices and taxes and to negotiate foreign credits . |
| 26 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
| 27 | It was the consummation of a campaign waged for five or six years to change the acceptable face of the unemployed into the unacceptable face of the scrounger . |
| 28 | His Democratic opponent , Doug Wilder , hoping on 7 November to become the first black governor of a US state , has been forcing him to back-pedal since . |
| 29 | The assembly divided itself into five committees and 26 sub-committees to dissect the 131 draft proposals it has received . |
| 30 | On return of this document , the participant named overleaf , will automatically be registered as an entrant in the Ultimate Prize Draw , with six changes to win the first prize jackpot of £50,000 . |