Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darlington over eight rinks just had the better of a Nottinghamshire county side . |
| 2 | Er you 've got eight words colours there , how many of those eight words actually make a change in their spelling when it becomes feminine ? |
| 3 | The Scottish League , meanwhile , could soon consist of four divisions of ten clubs after a meeting of the top 12 clubs yesterday supported the principle of increasing the League 's membership from 38 to 40 teams . |
| 4 | ‘ To meet the case where an owner-occupier puts his house up for sale and moves into a new house but can not at once find a buyer for his old house , the 1965 Finance Act provides for exemption or relief from capital gains tax even though the owner did not actually live in the house for a period of up to 12 months immediately preceding the date of sale . |
| 5 | But 12,371 competitors and 5,935 officials from 142 countries have registered , leaving another 30 countries still to announce the size of their teams . |
| 6 | Could the 12 sites conceivably include NO parking provision at all ? |
| 7 | Forty feet below lies the underground , busy and blind as a mole . |
| 8 | Over 140 countries worldwide operate an internal express service . |
| 9 | It was built only 30 years ago to service the huge and ambitious Ord River reservoir and irrigation scheme , but it gives a fascinating glimpse into the colossal pioneering effort needed to transform the arid outback into a workable landscape . |
| 10 | This place , which 30 years ago had the fastest-growing economy in democratic Europe , is now an economic failure . |
| 11 | In the meanwhile , the British system devised by Lord Waverley forty years ago to retain the works of art most essential to Britian 's artistic and historical heritage will be a largely pointless administrative hoop-la as works of art are declared to be national patrimony by the committees of experts , and then are exported anyway for lack of funds . |
| 12 | Another biopsy specimen taken 22 days later showed the ‘ rigid cord pattern ’ described above . |
| 13 | Bob acquired the Blackburn-built Swordfish in September 1970 and has spent the last 22 years painstakingly rebuilding the aircraft . |
| 14 | To determine if the effect of TTX was specific to oligodendrocyte precursor cells , we injected TTX into one eye of P7 rats and 2 days later injected the rats with the thymidine analogue bromodeoxyuridine ( BrdU ) to label cells synthesizing DNA . |
| 15 | One of the field commanders , Edgar Chamorro , continually nagged by Fernandez to get into Nicaragua and fight , at last decided to venture 30 metres inside to attack a border post ; heavy fire drove him back and , retreating to a pay phone , he called the CIA in Langley , Virginia and asked them to send mortars . |
| 16 | To test this technique , engineers first drilled boreholes 2 kilometres deep and 300 metres apart to form an underground reservoir of water heated by the hot dry rocks . |
| 17 | Forty-five kilometres downstream lies the British-aided Victoria Dam , 130 m high and 500 m across at the top . |
| 18 | Seven out of the forty women specifically mention the pleasure they obtain from seeing a line full of clean clothes ; some explain it is because they anticipate the silent admiration of neighbours at this visible ( though shortlived ) achievement . |
| 19 | From the rectangle of hard , white light fifty feet away came a hubbub of shouts and catcalls . |
| 20 | 10 minutes later came a goal worthy of winning any match . |
| 21 | He broke clear from the 22-metre line five minutes into the second half and 10 minutes later repeated the effort . |
| 22 | Cook gently for a further 10 minutes then break the fish into bite-size pieces . |
| 23 | Simmer the onion , garlic , celery leaves and tomatoes in the fish stock for 10 minutes then add the swordfish . |
| 24 | Preincubation of HGT-1 cells with 100 nmol/l TPA for 10 minutes significantly reduced the initial response to histamine ( p<0.01 ) , this effect being most apparent five minutes after the addition of histamine . |
| 25 | In Brisbane , Sri Lanka ground out their highest score in the three Tests they have played against Australia , adding 194 in six hours yesterday to end the third day of the first Test on 275 for six . |
| 26 | These announcements were accompanied with the news that the Sovereign and Sterling +2 products now enjoy the privilege of being listed under the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 27 | According to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities there was a massive 37.5 per cent increase in rent arrears in the six months immediately following the benefit changes in April 1988.37 Other benefit changes may have contributed to this increase in arrears : the change from supplementary benefit to income support ; the insistence that everyone should be required to pay at least 20 per cent of their rates ( community charge ) and all of their water rates ; and the replacement of urgent needs payments by social fund loans . |
| 28 | Bankruptcy proceedings must be commenced in the High Court ( in London ) if : ( i ) the petition is presented by a Government department , and either in the statutory demand an indication to petition in the High Court is stated or the petition is based upon an unsatisfied execution ; or ( ii ) the debtor by or against whom the petition is presented has resided or carried on business within the London insolvency district for the greater part of the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the petition or for a longer period during those six months than in any other insolvency district ; or ( iii ) the debtor is not resident in England and Wales ; or ( iv ) the petitioning creditor is unable to ascertain the residence of the debtor ( tr 6.9(1) and 6.40 ) . |
| 29 | In any other case , bankruptcy proceedings must be begun in the county court for the insolvency district in which the debtor has resided or carried on business for the longest period during the six months immediately preceding the presentation of the bankruptcy petition ( r 6.9(2) ) . |
| 30 | Saturday work is usual in the retail trade ; however much the social disruption is stressed at interview , keen candidates may nevertheless filter out the information they do not want to hear , resigning six months later to find a Monday to Friday job . |