Example sentences of "[num] [coord] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth is that my women friends really would n't feel much better if they were 19 going on 20 , 29 approaching 30 or nudging the big Four-O . |
| 2 | Lamont now proposed a " substantial switch " from local to central taxation , amounting to about £4,250 million in 1991-92 and reducing the net yield of local taxation to around £7,000 million . |
| 3 | John Thwaites , one of the sons at High Birk Hatt , just up the pasture from the Hauxwells , now in his early seventies and living a happy retirement with his wife , Marie , in a cottage near Lartington , a short distance from Baldersdale , vividly recalls the painful life of William as he tilled the eighty sparse acres of his farm . |
| 4 | He practised , paramedically , before leaving the Newcastle under Lyme area in 1690 and obtaining a medical licence at Chester in July 1691 . |
| 5 | Tail between legs , Nicholson returned to the Corman factory for another in the psychotic youth genre , The Wild Ride , with a cast of three and running a mere sixty-three minutes . |
| 6 | We went back inside and signed the indentures , the scrivener cutting the parchment into three and keeping a duplicate copy . |
| 7 | Indeed , when Darlington were last in Division Three and plummeting the late , great Cyril Knowles received frequent backing in this space . |
| 8 | EUROPEAN Community leaders last night hammered out an historic strategy for achieving economic and monetary union by the mid-1990s and seeking a peaceful and more united Germany in close co-operation with the Soviet Union . |
| 9 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
| 10 | Familiar with army ways , Curran served in the Indian Army in India , Cyprus , and Italy from 1941 to 1945 before completing his degree in history in 1946 with a first class in part ii and joining the British Broadcasting Corporation as a talks producer in 1947 . |
| 11 | After working Card No. 1 and understanding the basic method , Cards No. 2 and 3 should present no difficulties . |
| 12 | Working-class voters had already elected one Labour government in 1923 and following the General Strike they elected another one at the first opportunity in 1929 . |
| 13 | Reports published in Beirut newspapers on Aug. 28 and quoting a senior source in the Shia Amal movement claimed that Arad was being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran , having been captured by Amal in Lebanon in 1986 after bailing out of his aircraft , and then sold by Amal to the Revolutionary Guard for $500,000 . |
| 14 | If you are over 60 and drawing a full pension in your own right , this will not be affected by divorce . |
| 15 | But tiresome authority deems that tickling a trout or two or felling the odd wild duck for the supper table is illegal . |
| 16 | Checking a positive climb and flicking up the quick-retracting gear I concentrated on the slow process of building speed , getting the flaps in at 130 and maintaining a gentle increase in height with steady acceleration to 170 knots , when the nose can be raised for 3,000 fpm to show on the VSI as she really starts to go . |
| 17 | A draft budget for 1993 , announced on Oct. 14 , envisaged restricting total expenditure to about Esc3,900,000 million and reducing the public-sector deficit to 3.9 per cent of GDP ( Esc488,000 million , compared with Esc543,000 million in 1992 : US$1.00=131.74 as at Oct. 19 , 1992 ) . |
| 18 | Did n't lose sleep over it ’ Frank is 19 and serving a 21-month sentence for assault and robbery . |
| 19 | He shifted his energies to pressure-group politics , playing a leading role in orchestrating the No Popery crusade of 1834–6 and organizing the Protestant Association as a focus for the anti-Catholic campaign . |
| 20 | The robber , aged about 20 and wearing a green hat , escaped in a G-registered burgundy-coloured Vauxhall Cavalier and is believed to have had a trilby-hatted accomplice in the car . |
| 21 | In complete contrast were letters between Chelsea and Scotland covering the period from 1737 to 1758 and presenting a spirited academic exchange . |
| 22 | Crude oil prices continued to rise , passing US$40 per barrel on Sept. 24 and exceeding the previous peak levels of 1980 . |