Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Dec. 7 delegates voted overwhelmingly to retain the party 's name . |
| 2 | A group of six pentagons folds naturally to form a serrated hemisphere . |
| 3 | By 1979 women had still to reach the level of 5 per cent of candidates returned to Westminster in any one general election . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that since CATO closed in my constituency , 230 training places remain to be filled and 35 trainers have yet to find jobs ? |
| 5 | I found myself living on the base with a dozen nationalities thrown together to know our God more . |
| 6 | In their study of affluent workers ' attitudes to work John Goldthorpe and his colleagues asked three questions designed specifically to measure the extent to which industrial work is experienced as intrinsically unsatisfying . |
| 7 | Taken together the 1972 Basic Treaty on Germany and the 1975 Accords seemed effectively to provide Europe with what it had lacked since 1945 : a post-war peace settlement based on the acceptance of the Continent 's division . |
| 8 | Tess and the other three girls dressed quickly to go to Mellstock Church , which was three or four miles away from Talbothays . |
| 9 | Half a dozen men started forward to obey Burun 's shouted command , but then Kiku came out of the yurt door . |
| 10 | Three men stepped forward to meet Colberg : Donald Stewart , a gun across his arm , Donald McLaggan , holding a shaft with a curved blade at its end , and someone unknown to Cameron and Menzies , also with a gun . |
| 11 | Rising to the challenge , with a mere three men left behind to guard Hampshire , Dorset and South Wiltshire , the service team swarmed aboard . |
| 12 | This year 's expected cull of 5,000 elephants has yet to take place ; and one of the controversial wildlife management policy 's most vocal proponents has now lost his job as assistant director of the Department of National Parks and Wildlife . |
| 13 | 1.1 Members voted overwhelmingly to reject the Management offer on gradings and conditions associated with Council Tax posts . |
| 14 | And now time , which in the last ten minutes seemed mysteriously to have halted , flowed again and he was standing at his bedroom window five days later watching the great ball of the sun rise out of the sea to stain the horizon and spread over the eastern sky the veins and arteries of the new day . |
| 15 | No indeed , this is in fact er about the twelfth meeting in a series , the first meeting was in 1973 , where 75 scientists came together to deliberate about 50 genes which were known at that time . |
| 16 | Violence spilling over from the conflict in Croatia has escalated dramatically in recent weeks after the republic 's 1.9 million Muslims and 750,000 Croats voted overwhelmingly to secede from Serb-controlled remnants of Yugoslavia . |
| 17 | Two of a series of five stamps issued today to mark the 14th World Orchid Conference depict Papua and New Guinea orchids Dendrobium hellwigianum , on the 18p stamp , and Dendrobium vexillarius on the 39p stamp , that Paddy Woods has spent 30 years investigating . |
| 18 | Leaders of the five unions meet today to review the situation . |
| 19 | By 1989 , there were 28 artists working officially to record various military conflicts . |
| 20 | By 1989 , there were 28 artists working officially to record various military conflicts . |
| 21 | With just 1000 troops staying behind to guard the empty airfield . |
| 22 | And how two cultures failed entirely to understand each other . |
| 23 | Here we are concerned with bimolecular associations where adverse entropy changes denote loss of translational ( position ) and rotational ( orientation ) motions that occur when two entities come together to form one complex . |
| 24 | The year 1726 saw this difficulty emerge in an aggravated form in the county of Stirling , where two candidates came forward to challenge the re-election of MacFarlane of Kirkton , who had enjoyed the endorsement of the Duke of Montrose for several years past . |
| 25 | A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule . |
| 26 | The two countries had yet to finalize a peace treaty formally ending the conflict which had effectively been halted by the 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 36568-69 ] . |
| 27 | But perestroika came late to the Soviet Academy of Sciences , and the reforms introduced over the past two years have yet to take effect . |
| 28 | There is a process of two individuals joining together to form a new life , often personified by children . |
| 29 | ‘ Two things spring immediately to mind . |
| 30 | A synergistic effect is defined as two substances coming together to create a greater effect than the sum of the two could achieve separately . |