Example sentences of "[num] [noun] in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 2 | I happen to drive a very small car er a Fiat one , two , six and you ca n't get much smaller than that and I am much more aggressive when I 'm driving that for the simple reason I think its this sort of principle although I 'm nearly six foot in that I 'm a small person and the small person mentality comes out because I get cut up continuously , they do n't do that when I 'm driving my husband 's car which is a Volvo , er they will cut in front of me , I do n't think they , if they knew what my brakes were like they would n't do it . |
| 3 | De Gaulle had to recognize that himself : three times in 1945 he approved reductions in the military budget . |
| 4 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 5 | Two or three hours in these we were . |
| 6 | Staffordshire were also the Minor County champions in 1991 , but after three matches in 1992 they were still awaiting their first win . |
| 7 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 8 | It does , nevertheless , have one benefit in that it makes the identification of the Z3 Carbonate relatively easy because when combined with the leaching profile at the top of the formation , it gives the sonic log a characteristic D-shape which is unique to the Z3 Carbonate ( Fig. 28 ) . |
| 9 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 10 | One Sunday in four he refused to go out and stayed at home to read and write . |
| 11 | One day in 1826 I brought a box of toy soldiers home from Leeds . |
| 12 | One day in 1868 she found a small tree pushing its way through a pile of discarded fruit . |
| 13 | But one day in 1989 I got a phone call from Bob Woodward , founder and chairman of CLIC , the Cancer and Leukemia in Childhood Trust . |
| 14 | One day in 1915 he arrived in Berthe Weill 's gallery and begged her to come and look at his stone heads . |
| 15 | And I remember one game in particular it always stuck in me mind . |
| 16 | Yet each and every one of the weird and wacky items have one thing in common they are all absolutely 100% true . |
| 17 | ‘ One thing in particular I noticed was that Liverpool girls do n't mind shelling out the money to get what they really want . |
| 18 | One year in seven it is to lie fallow : a year in which the people , freed from much of their ordinary work , are to be taught and trained in God 's law ( Deuteronomy 31:10ff . ) . |
| 19 | In two lectures in 1857 he attributed crime not to personal depravity but the corrupting tendencies of the law . |