Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between them they commanded 120 seats in the 212-member Chamber of Representatives , but fell well short of the two-thirds majority required to approve any constitutional changes . |
| 2 | Many worked a complete 12 hour shift to satisfy all the visitors and customers . |
| 3 | That this mild-mannered three piece manage to fulfil those rash dreams is a genuine joy at a time when so many bands seem to have one trick less than a dead pony . |
| 4 | One measure designed to counter this is the introduction this year of just one school-leaving date — the end of June . |
| 5 | But , as Heydon says , judges attach little significance to the point and it really only plays a part if , as in Dickson 's case , one side refuses to adduce any evidence of reasonableness at all . |
| 6 | When one boy attempted to impart some sense of movement to the still life by pouring himself an imaginary cup of tea the teacher lightly but firmly kicked him back to his seat , smiling and talking in a manner that confirmed for the pupil the ‘ naturalness ’ of this action . |
| 7 | A quotation from one teacher serves to illustrate this attitude : ‘ Nowadays when education is under attack , and survival is the watchword , there is just not enough time or willpower for such peripheral activities . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The Friend in Disgrace ’ is a dialogue in which one friend fails to recognize another who has suffered misfortune : |
| 9 | You should try and work out if any one person seems to carry more weight with the others and address your answers to that person whenever possible . |
| 10 | Croak croak croak one frog began to croak all by himself . |
| 11 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 12 | Imagine gardens and grounds so huge one man has to spend half the year just trimming the grass verges . |
| 13 | One man tried to do that — but forgot to hide the remote control . |
| 14 | He appends to his article on Molla Husrev a brief notice of the life of Hizir Bey , introduced by the phrase ( " one thing calls to mind another " ) , a phrase with which he later introduces his account of Seyh Abdulkerim , the holder of an ad hominem muftilik in the reign of Suleyman . |
| 15 | But it was one thing to want to see some medium-term alteration of the shape of British industry . |
| 16 | There is one umpire itching to tell all about the drama of that momentous lunch interval during the Texaco Trophy one-day match at Lord 's which sparked the biggest row in modern cricket . |
| 17 | As the egg is divided up into a large number of cells , a group of cells at one end come to contain this special pole plasm . |
| 18 | WHAT Saturn glues together , Pluto and Uranus may attempt to sunder — in other words , as much as one situation refuses to budge another is set for blast off . |
| 19 | Intensive help over the course of one year started to show some therapeutic effects . |
| 20 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's far worse in many other districts . |
| 21 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's ah worse in many other districts . |
| 22 | A stone mould from Sitia combining the cross , the wheel and the flaring sun-disc all in one symbol tends to confirm this ( title illustration , Chapter 1 ) . |
| 23 | As soon as one just one company decides to take that seal we 've got to put that ad in somewhere . |
| 24 | The 1982 reorganisation tried to simplify some of the worst complexities of 1974 by pruning the consultative machinery , abolishing the area tiers , simplifying the planning machinery and advocating greater devolution of decision-making to units of management at the level of hospitals and community services . |