Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] [num] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum number of new shares which may be issued under the schemes is restricted to 5% of the issued ordinary share capital over the first five years ending in 1991 and thereafter 3% over any three year period . |
| 2 | Mixtures are substances consisting of two or more pure substances . |
| 3 | They started training in 1986 and initially spent 36 weeks on block-release at college learning basic engineering skills , fabrication , machining , fitting and basic electrical work . |
| 4 | One device introduced to create harmonic stress was that of writing in two or more different keys or modes at the same time — to write bitonal and polytonal music . |
| 5 | It is simply due to the fact that these little hotels have remained faithful to habits dating from 1840 or so . |
| 6 | Just how far the market has declined in the last two years can be gauged by the performance of Henry Moore 's ‘ Reclining Figure No. 6 ’ ( lot 89 , est. $50,000–70,000 ) , an important bronze maquette dating from 1954 and closely related to the great elmwood reclining figure of 1959–64 . |
| 7 | There were no bids for a large postcard piece by Gilbert and George ( lot 360 , est. £9,000–12,000 ) , nor for Tony Cragg 's ‘ Yard ’ ( lot 378 , est. £18,000–25,000 ) , an important granite sculpture dating from 1988 and formerly owned by the late Sebastian Walker . |
| 8 | Under previous legislation dating from 1969 and rarely implemented , companies faced maximum fines of only $3,000 . |
| 9 | Its momentum was flagging by 1730 and even its constrained educational objectives were being criticised as a step too far . |
| 10 | Sixteen or 17 is the most common age for men losing their virginity , with some 18% waiting until 20 or later . |
| 11 | These were already declining by 1400 and apparently continued to do so throughout the fifteenth century . |
| 12 | moving towards CDL or even CDL as the teacher learns to handle the system and the unit . |
| 13 | In my first book , Death and the Visiting Firemen , back in 1959 , I made my detective a schoolmaster ( as my father had been ) and was able to use a teacher 's summing-up of a class of twenty or thirty potential delinquents as a parallel for an investigator 's examining of six or so suspects . |
| 14 | Usually , you can rely on the butis meeting or meditating until nine or so . |
| 15 | Sentences running to 70 or so words do n't help . |
| 16 | Each cardholder has a set limit , running to hundreds or even thousands of pounds that can be borrowed at any one time . |
| 17 | He makes a point of acquiring a substantial area of grounds , not just the lawns immediately around the house , but the walled gardens and shrubberies beyond , running to twenty or even fifty acres . |
| 18 | Most of the above theories suggest that leadership style is a question of choosing between two or more mutually exclusive leadership alternatives eg either democratic or authoritarian . |
| 19 | Bedworth , now 19 , began hacking at 14 and quickly became obsessed , the court heard . |
| 20 | Many reports , and particularly the Black Report and the more recent Health Education Council ‘ The Health Divide ’ have used the relationship between occupational class and death rates over time to demonstrate that inequalities in health between socio-economic groups have been increasing since 1951 and perhaps since 1931 . |
| 21 | A Kentish hegemony in south-east England at this time is not , therefore , wholly out of the question , and Offa 's intention in intervening in 784–5 and thereafter may have been to gain mastery of it and contain it . |
| 22 | , Thomas ( fl. 1589–1638 ) , land surveyor , was certainly practising by 1589 and possibly a year or two earlier . |