Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

  Previous page   Next page
No Sentence
31 After the heights scaled in that quarter-final , Ireland plunged to six feet under in this match proving , in the course of the game , that the only predictable thing about them is their unpredictability .
32 For example , the utterance EvalA11 , Three chefs face a thief , provided the most correct lattice with thirteen phonemes out of fourteen correctly identified .
33 On one farm 1,300 chickens died , and on another 10 lambs out of 40 ( the rest being made ill ) .
34 If you were preparing for the paper to which the above chart refers , it would obviously be very foolish to enter the examination without a very full understanding of topics 1a , 4 and 5 ( six years out of seven ) , but it would be equally foolish to assume that you need pay no attention to 11 ( two years out of seven ) .
35 Such an idea led to isolated fragmentation of the forest , but in the 10 years up to 1977 over 11000 km of roads were built and settlers moved in .
36 We had to keep that clean suppo And they were n you you was working about six days out of seven , I got one or two days extra for not having clean harness I could you had n't got time to do it .
37 Last time , Congress got just six seats out of 42 in a state it once claimed as its almost exclusive territory .
38 I 'm sure it 's twenty six weeks off on full pay and then you go on
39 In the 7 years up to 1977 , 7389 families were established as opposed to the goal of 100 000 by 1974 , largely because of poor agricultural yields , in part due to the use of the wrong rice cultivar for Amazonia , problems of storage of produce and of predators and pests , in an imported technology that was too temperate-oriented .
40 In our study , only six patients out of 12 had stable nodular hperplasia of endocrine cells .
41 Six rooms out of ten face the sea .
42 Cicadas have a similar range to ourselves , hearing from 100 hertz up to 15 000 hertz .
43 Portadown , minus the suspended Tony Gorman , only need to avoid a heavy defeat at home to Ballymena to qualify from Group D and having won six games out of six they should be okay .
44 Off The Bru , a 200–1 chance , was six lengths back in third , with Gee Armytage , on her father 's Merry Master , fourth .
45 Swindon who are fighting against relegation for the second year running were six points down at one stage … they fought back …
46 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 .
47 ‘ The experience in Australia was that the Lotto game , where six numbers out of 45 are drawn each week , reduced our football pools ’ take to 10 per cent of the previous figure .
48 The FT-SE share index was down 31.7 points before setting out on a steady recovery , closing 4.1 points down at 2,277.5 .
49 If you acquired 100 shares back in 1973 you would have paid £145 .
50 The inspectors awarded Mr Gueho 17-18 marks out of possible 20 , a ranking which would put him among the very best chefs of France .
51 Sangster had been leading owner in this country five times in eight years up to 1985 when Sheikh Mohammed led the Maktoum charge , taking the No. 1 spot four times in row in the past four seasons .
52 It 's basically the body that Rickenbacker introduced first on the Combo 650 and Combo 850 guitars back in 1957 , the same shape they later carried over to Lennon 's favourite , the model 325 .
53 And so fifty percent off on this one is going to work out more expensive than thirty three percent off
54 The major thrust may have been carried by a dozen committed individuals , but when push has come to shove , the YCCC have been able to fill meeting halls for important confrontations , and have succeeded in getting eight places out of eleven on the City Council filled by candidates representing a broad coalition under the slogan ‘ It 's time for change , ’ which campaigned specifically on local issues .
55 He can impose his choice because the president is elected not by the voters but by the National Assembly , where the Motherland party still has an ample majority : it holds 290 seats out of 450 Should a party which , judging by the latest test at the polls , is supported by only one voter in five choose the head of state ?
56 Together they fought the general election of February , 1974 when UUUC candidates secured eleven seats out of twelve for 51% of the votes and also the UK general election of October 1974 when they secured ten seats for 58% of the votes .
57 Aung San 's demand for eleven seats out of fifteen was not conceded and at the end of the month the Governor appointed a Council of ten members , of whom only two were British .
58 It has been reckoned that in the Northern Ireland Assembly election of 1973 eight seats out of 78 were won thanks to alphabetical voting .
59 By the end of the decade it could claim only eight seats out of sixty-four on the council , and was a negligible influence in municipal affairs .
60 The press has a majority on the board of directors ( eight seats out of 15 ) and thereby is held to guarantee pluralism and the agency 's independence of the state .
  Previous page   Next page