Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her nomination was selected from 18,000 entries to win the 11–15-year-old category . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chapter 2 attempts to demonstrate the specific appeal of formal labourism by examining the construction of political discourses around the working class . |
| 5 | Well it 'll take twenty minutes to get here and it 'll take about forty minutes to get the other way . |
| 6 | What had happened during the previous 30 months to cause the right hon. Gentleman to change his apparent convictions of 30 years ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Argos said it would be important over the coming 12 months to contain the additional cost pressures from the pound 's devaluation . |
| 9 | He had execution of the warrant for his arrest stayed for twenty-one days to allow the young peer to appeal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Also featuring will be Picasso 's own copy of his ‘ La Tauromaquia ’ , a set of 83 prints to illustrate the eighteenth-century bullfighting handbook by Pepe Illo , which is estimated at £70–80,000 ( $125–180,000 ) . |
| 16 | STEVE Richardson birdied three of his first six holes to take the outright lead at 10 under par in the second round of the Lancia Martini Italian Open at Modena today . |
| 17 | The dominant theme of a whistle-stop second half was of Swansea driving towards Harlequins ' line , a shrill blast for a penalty , followed immediately by an even shriller one and Griffiths pacing out a generous 10 metres to silence the Welsh invective . |
| 18 | The filters were washed two times in 50ml of 0.5 M sodium phosphate , pH 6.8 for 10 min to remove the unincorporated radioactivity . |
| 19 | It was to take eight years to produce the entire series . |
| 20 | You will be given a routine ultrasound scan at 16 and 32 weeks to determine the exact age of the fetus , the presence of twins , etc . |
| 21 | The French government despatched some 500 troops to reinforce the 500-strong battalion of Marines permanently stationed to protect French installations , and made arrangements for the evacuation of French citizens . |
| 22 | Although Sacheverell was found guilty , the decision by the House of Lords on 21 March to impose the mild sentence of three years ' suspension from preaching was widely seen as a moral victory for the doctor over the Whigs , and the news was greeted with ( often violent ) celebrations throughout the country . |
| 23 | Three projects to investigate the Solar System range from a cluster of four satellites to investigate the Earth 's magnetosphere , through a solar high-resolution observatory ( in Earth orbit ) , to a probe designed to fly to the asteroid belt and study some asteroids at close range . |
| 24 | Stirling Moss ( GB ) , in 1955 , along with his co-driver Denis Jenkinson ( GB ) , became one of only three non-Italians to win the great race and many regarded it as Moss 's best-ever drive . |
| 25 | Timesense said she had maybe three hours to reach the Narrow Room . |
| 26 | It took three minutes to erect the inner tent on its first outing but because it was raining constantly , the inner was a little wet before I had a chance to put the flysheet over . |
| 27 | From this stems the historical importance of the ordinances of war issued by kings on campaign : by Richard II during the Scottish war of 1385 ; by Henry V in France in 1419 ; and by his brother John , duke of Bedford , in Normandy in 1428 , all three attempts to control the illegal or ‘ un-peaceful ’ activities of soldiers , in particular in their relationships with non-combatants . |
| 28 | After having to make three attempts to turn the huge pantechnicon into our lane , they finally succeeded . |
| 29 | There are hotels which keep you waiting at reception , restaurants that serve you cold coffee , shops which never have what you want in stock , mail-order firms that take three months to deliver the wrong goods . |
| 30 | Work continued apace and Colonel von Donop appeared again on 21 December to inspect the final section , which he did in car No. 36 . |