Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only one prisoner is known to have escaped unaided in 1875 after scaling the 20 ft boundary wall . |
| 2 | A mechanism which was proposed in Chapter 2 for explaining the inverted-U relationship was that of attention focusing occurring at higher levels of arousal in line with Easterbrook 's hypothesis . |
| 3 | Each time it looked as though he was going to make his breakthrough — in 1982 after his Commonwealth dead heat with Allan Wells , or in 1984 after making the Los Angeles Olympic final , or again in 1985 after winning the European Indoor — he just did n't get his act together . |
| 4 | While I sympathize with the caller from West Calder , I feel we pay poll tax as well to cover all these things but when I bought my house , my solicitor had me in for two hours and went through all my obligations under the title deeds part of was , that I had to pay one three hundredths of keeping the open areas clean and tidy plus grass cutting . |
| 5 | The statement followed calls from the leadership of Apap — which is not affiliated to the Trades Union Congress — for fresh negotiations , after members on Wednesday voted by two-to-one against accepting the 9 per cent proposal . |
| 6 | Duffy won a black ball fight in the opener and took the second frame 62–40 before winning the next two easily with breaks of 35 and 57 in the third and 92 in the fourth . |
| 7 | But Hall began to dominate , leading 6-0 and then 9-4 before taking the second game to level the match . |
| 8 | But Hall began to dominate , leading 6-0 and then 9-4 before taking the second game . |
| 9 | Ralph Stanley , a former head of the Urban Mass Transportation agency in Washington , DC , who now works for Bechtel , says that he approached 44 firms on Wall Street in 1989–90 before finding the right combination of people to put together a private toll-road project . |
| 10 | And the , as I say , it must have been difficult to go through a day , between nineteen thirty-nine , and nineteen forty-five without hearing the National Anthem somewhere , somehow . |
| 11 | Regimental traditions have influenced the badge patterns of The Duke of Cornwall 's Light Infantry , which was formed in 1881 by linking The 32nd Regiment of Foot ( Cornwall ) , raised in The 1st Surrey Rifle Volunteer Corps 1702 , and The 46th Regiment of Foot ( South Devonshire ) , raised in 1741 . |
| 12 | Then the Einstein equation is The choice of the constant of proportionality will be justified in Section 7.4 by taking the classical limit and showing that Newton 's law of gravitation is then obtained . |
| 13 | We first prove 1.5.1 by employing the standard proof involving definite use of the concepts of irreducibility and primeness . |
| 14 | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed on July 2 , 1976 , after North Vietnam-backed communist insurgents had effectively reunified the country in April 1975 by overthrowing the United States-supported government of South Vietnam . |
| 15 | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam was proclaimed in 1976 after North Vietnam-backed communist insurgents had reunified the country in April 1975 by overthrowing the United States-supported government of South Vietnam after some 16 years of war . |
| 16 | Mouland was tipped as a rising star of European golf when he turned professional in 1981 after winning the British Boys Championship . |
| 17 | His Senior Assistant is 24-year old Max Taylor from Southport , who turned professional at 18 after winning the Junior Championship at Bootle Golf Club ( Liverpool ) . |
| 18 | The other importance of this marriage is their offspring , the mirror image of Pip and someone that Pip is determined to bring up with his hard earned wisdom and experience in order to stop Pip II from making the same mistakes . |
| 19 | The Penyfford youngster dropped the opening set 6–1 to Adam Elliott of Prestatyn but squared the match at 6–3 before taking the competitive decider 6–4 . |
| 20 | Woosnam failed from eight feet or less on four of the opening six holes , and it proved crucial as Ogle rattled in four birdies in a 69 before snatching the biggest win of his career . |
| 21 | In a village somewhere in the uezd of Roslavl' in the southwest of the Smolensk guberniia a peasant mother rises at dawn in the spring of 1922 on hearing the passing herdsman drum on his barabanka , a cast-iron drum . |
| 22 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 23 | 4 By deleting the new technology agreement all new entrants shall no longer receive the ‘ low pay supplement ’ of £763 per year . |
| 24 | Courtaulds ( the international chemical material group ) has applied FRS 3 in producing the half year figures for the six months ended 30 September 1992 ; it has also restated the prior year comparative figures on the same basis . |
| 25 | A group headed by Chevron and Conoco is investing £2 billion in developing the difficult Britannia complex ; an Amoco-led consortium is spending £1.5 billion on the Everest and Lomond fields and the new pipeline ; and the new Armada project is provisionally estimated by County NatWest Woodmac to involve investment of almost £800m . |
| 26 | The latter managed to sense the way the wind was to blow during the Eighties by anticipating the various forms of emerging Neo-Expressionism . |
| 27 | 3 By replacing the new technology allowance with a personal allowance staff who are currently on GS1/2 have had their earning capability curtailed by £300 per year or £6 per week . |
| 28 | Data records with index fields less than or equal to 45 can be found by following the left pointer ; greater than 45 and less than or equal to 86 can be found by following the middle pointer ; and records greater than 86 by following the third pointer . |
| 29 | This was compounded in her case when she jumped 20 places on the world computer in 1987 after reaching the third round at Edgbaston . |
| 30 | This was compounded in her case when she jumped 20 places on the world computer in 1987 after reaching the third round at Edgbaston . |