Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An interview length of between 30 and 45 minutes seems the norm . |
| 2 | But Anne Rogers whose son James has been unconscious for six years says the ruling just puts pressure on her to do the same thing . |
| 3 | ‘ Every branch of literature , reading , orthography , recitation , grammar and composition together with British history forms the prominent part of the system ; while the entire curriculum of study which occupies six years embraces the Latin , Greek , French , Russian and German languages , history , geography , physiology , chemistry , natural philosophy , zoology , botany , algebra , geometry , drawing and painting , fencing , gymnastics and military drill . |
| 4 | Seldom , if ever , in the last 10 years has the world governing body of cricket made a decision which called for guts . |
| 5 | In part , the difference in behaviour at the three sites reflects the relationship between a lava and its gas content , a topic which will be discussed further in the next section . |
| 6 | The combination of these three components forms the fabric of any sedimentary rock . |
| 7 | This stretch of approximately three miles includes the whole of the famous 1:29 Golfa incline . |
| 8 | To ban research on a fertilised egg unless it is to be reimplanted , and in the same Bill wish to permit abortion up to 18 weeks demonstrates the movement 's illogicality . |
| 9 | In addition , extracts from another MHC class II negative cell line , HeLa , behaved like RJ2.2.5 extracts , thus suggesting that inability to express MHC class II genes parallels the presence of an excess of a promoter binding factor . |
| 10 | Nuclear energy from France 's 57 reactors supplies the country with 80 per cent of its electricity needs . |
| 11 | The fact that Europe was split into ten zones reflects the politics of the global system rather than its technology , and suggests that ‘ the world is not shrinking everywhere like a deflated balloon , but very irregularly , more like a dried apple , furrowed and distorted ’ ( Cherry , 1978 , p.135 ) . |
| 12 | It is widely accepted that the next ten years presents the Health Service with a manpower problem . |
| 13 | That device there costing 20 or 25 pounds means the car will still be here when the owner comes back . |
| 14 | In the Raymond Burke Trophy Paul King ( Green Baize ) on 36 frames leads the title race , two frames ahead of Seamus Gallagher ( 720 SC A ) and Colm McConomy ( Green Baize ) with St Johnston 's William Porter fourth on 30 frames . |
| 15 | The A.86 , widened and improved , turns north-east at Tulloch and for ten miles has the waters of Loch Moy and Loch Laggan alongside , ultimately arriving in the Spey valley . |
| 16 | However , reducing the raster size from 100 to 25 mapunits increases the disc space required to store the raster files by a factor of 16 as well as increasing processing times . |
| 17 | Citizens choose between different teams of politicians and whichever one wins enacts the programme on which it campaigned . |
| 18 | The eyes have sunk back , they peer against the sun , one hands lowers the brim of the straw hat . |
| 19 | In only one in four cases has the patient actually seen the crab lice . |
| 20 | The relationship between these two groups defines the working environment to which Paul is referring . |
| 21 | The line under each of the two patterns indicates the extent of the integrated plasmids . |
| 22 | A one-time hater of the Japanese , the author of novels that have sold over 6 million copies tells The Bookseller how he came to want to promote understanding between east and west |
| 23 | If you prefer , however , you can think of fitting a line to transformed data as equivalent to fitting a curve to the raw data ; in effect one is saying that the relationship between the two variables takes the form of a particular curve . |
| 24 | The fact that Dagenham currently produces two cars makes the operation of the plant even more chaotic . |
| 25 | ‘ What happened to these two chaps proves the rumour is not true . ’ |
| 26 | Although the symbolism of the serpent is universal , in no two countries does the relationship appear to possess such complimentary sociological , philosophical and metaphysical components . |
| 27 | a painting lost for thirty years renders the room yours . |
| 28 | HOSPITALS in many parts of England and Wales may be put on ‘ red alert ’ and ban non-emergency admissions from today as the worst flu epidemic for 14 years sweeps the country , increasing admissions and seriously depleting nursing staff . |
| 29 | Hospitals in many parts of England and Wales may be put on red alert and ban non-emergency admissions as the worst flu epidemic for 14 years sweeps the country . |
| 30 | ‘ If A delivers goods to B on sale or return and B having received them immediately delivers them to C on sale or return , the reasonable time in the one case must , I think , be co-extensive with that in the other case and if that reasonable time elapses and C brings back the goods to B and B takes them back to A , everybody is acting within his rights , and it appears to me that property never passes … if under like circumstances A delivers goods to B and B delivers them to C in each case on sale or return and the reasonable time be , let us say , 14 days , and C after four days sells the goods or elects to buy the goods , I think property will have passed , because C will have done an act which renders it impossible for B to return the goods to A. ’ |