Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Version 1.15 adds little in functionality over prior releases . |
| 2 | The report concluded that the Arrow Airlines DC-8 crashed soon after take-off from Gander because of an accumulation of ice on the wings . |
| 3 | The Greek spoken in 1821 varied greatly from place to place ; one lot of islanders who proved invaluable in getting rid of the Turks spoke , in fact , Albanian . |
| 4 | Fyz be a factor for which data in country Y in time period 2 correlates closely with demand for A in country X. |
| 5 | Two rounds of voting in Lebanon 's first general election since 1972 went ahead in spite of a boycott by leading Maronite Christian parties . |
| 6 | Microvitec Plc , Bradford told the annual meeting that trading in the first three months of 1993 ran ahead of budget : the firm 's chairman , James Bailey , said ‘ we remain profitable throughout the group , and we look forward to a successful outcome to the current year . ’ |
| 7 | Doug Laughton 's outfit , with six men making their debuts , had battled into a 12-11 lead soon after half-time when the game exploded in their faces . |
| 8 | The congresses of 1814 – 21 are the most obvious example of this ; but Napoleon III negotiated directly with Cavour at Plombières in 1858 and with Bismarck at Biarritz in 1865 , while the peace preliminaries of 1871 were settled face-to-face between Bismarck and Thiers and the first Dreikaiserbund alliance of 1872 – 73 took shape from personal meetings between the rulers of Germany , Austria-Hungary and Russia . |
| 9 | It is not surprising to find the Russian government in 1784 asking officially for information on the organisation of the ministry ; and the memorandum drawn up in response to this request by one of the premiers commis paints , even allowing for some gilding of the lily , an impressive picture of the efficiency with which , at least in theory , correspondence was classified , answered and indexed . |
| 10 | It shows almost half the people are spending less on clothes for themselves , three out of 10 spend less on food , about a quarter find it hard to pay regular bills on time , and 43 per cent plan to spend less this Christmas . |
| 11 | How can you , could you do that if you 've got I mean he 's about twelve or thirteen comes home from school |
| 12 | A surcharge of DM15. -is paid locally per night per person/twin . |
| 13 | It was noted that the apparent recovery of 1983–7 rested heavily on finance , banking , and credit , rather than on a genuine revival of industry or manufacturing . |
| 14 | The Scotland manager , Duncan Paterson , said Morrison could not be considered for the Fiji Sevens starting today on account of the knee problem which limited his training to light running this week . |
| 15 | The proportion of all cases of trisomy 21 diagnosed cytogenetically before birth rose from 321/1077 ( 30% ) in 1989 to 423/1115 ( 38% ) in 1991 . |
| 16 | The British coal dispute of 1984–5 had more in common with the American ‘ labor struggles ’ of the early twentieth century than the post-reform era UMW strikes of 1977 and 1981 . |
| 17 | Paragraph 5 referred simply to enforcement of a judgment or order against a person who , under the rule , was bound by it . |
| 18 | The problem is complicated by the fact that costs per thousand vary sharply by station , and it is especially expensive to advertise in the large London area . |
| 19 | Richard II died mysteriously in captivity . |
| 20 | 5 Turn right at junction of paths with reedbeds now on left . |
| 21 | If so , Henry II had now by diplomacy achieved cheaply that which eight years earlier he had tried to do by the expensive means of war . |
| 22 | History of Instruments II See above under History of Instruments . |
| 23 | Musicology II See above under Musicology . |
| 24 | The resistance then to black families adopting makes it likely that successful selections in the 1960s and 1970s depended heavily on identification and involvement with white society , with the neighbourhood , the school and friends being predominantly white . |
| 25 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 26 | This certainly appeared to be the case ; those whose score on our cognitive impairment scale ( the OBS scale ) was between eight and ten cost more in community services than those whose score was between two and seven ( see Table 6.2 ) . |
| 27 | This was in itself a striking commentary on what had already been done : Liberal Unionists who had resisted amalgamation under Balfour and Acland-Hood in 1911 acquiesced meekly under Law and Steel-Maitland in 1912 . |
| 28 | 6 Turn right on farm track through farmyard and keep on main track after farm , avoiding left fork . |
| 29 | The employer taking 25 recruited both from specialist ( 5 ) and conversion ( 20 ) courses . |
| 30 | A small minority of young people now leave school at 16 to go directly into employment . |