Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [adv] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently many members are voted in only the second or third time round and he too could have waited quietly to be elected next time . |
| 2 | Startlingly bold as this idea is , the arguments for it were initially contained in just the first thirty-three short sections of the Principles . |
| 3 | Alexandra suddenly found she was crying , great gulping sobs , tears splashing down on to the kitchen counter , an aching sense of something very precious which she had discarded without even a second glance . |
| 4 | It is shortened to just the second and third phrases , both of which are cadentially ‘ open ’ , and so what had been a self-sufficient arch shape is turned into continuous , open-ended variative repetition ( see Ex. 1.2 ) . |
| 5 | But after four weeks of mass meditation , the rate apparently dropped by nearly a third . |
| 6 | The pie committee saw all their stipulations were met but attempts to stop it were made until almost the last minute . |
| 7 | Most importantly the Chardonnay in the grand cru sector has risen from nearly a third to over a half of the vines cultivated , while in the premiers crus it has dropped from just under a half to less than 40% . |
| 8 | Membership was never granted to about a third of firms which originally applied . |
| 9 | The Marine Mammals Protection Act was passed in New Zealand in 1978 , and reflected a growing public awareness of the need to provide for the conservation of the country 's marine mammals , which had been ruthlessly slaughtered during both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 10 | The money being transferred from the Department of Social Security to Nottinghamshire for buying residential care will fall short of the amount needed by almost a fifth . |
| 11 | The staircase stood in a garden overlooked by both the first floor and a ground-floor flat let to the plaintiffs . |
| 12 | In these conditions I wanted to get rid of about a third of the original sail area and so that 's it , now I 'm sailing much more happily instead of struggling against the boat I 'm sailing in harmony again . |
| 13 | There was improvement in all Commercial lines when compared with both the first and the final quarters of 1992 . |
| 14 | Thus a half of lone women aged 60–4 receive income from occupational schemes compared with only a third of those aged 75 and over . |
| 15 | The amateur actor was born with only a third of a kidney and has been on dialysis for the past four years . |
| 16 | A monthly on the Third World from a big publishing stable had just had the plug pulled after only the sixth issue . |
| 17 | On the credit side , collaboration with Europe has three great advantages : development costs , though not halved , are reduced from about a third to a quarter for each country depending on how many countries participate ; production runs are longer , leading to lower costs ; and , from the cynical military point of view , expensive high-risk collaborative projects are more difficult for governments to cancel . |
| 18 | The party and state apparatus that was responsible for the management of the economy would be reduced to about a tenth of its present size ; and democratic practices would be revived within the CPSU , primarily through party-wide discussions and votes on major issues . |
| 19 | Sumitomo Metal Industries , Japan 's third-largest steel company , has abandoned at least the first phase of a big refinancing scheme . |
| 20 | With the passing of time , Greek silver coins tended to have a wider diameter and lesser thickness , and a glance at the general appearance of a coin will enable it to be assigned to either the fifth to fourth centuries or the second to first centuries BC ( compare figs. 9 and 6 ) . |
| 21 | Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted . |
| 22 | For all the talk of ‘ cuts ’ , state spending on health has increased by nearly a third in real terms since 1979 , and as a share of total public spending it has moved from 14 per cent in 1978 — 9 to 16 per cent in 1988 — 9 . |
| 23 | The pigeon had still not passed on when the last fly leaf sputtered out an hour or more later . |
| 24 | Subsequently borrowings were repaid in both the third and fourth quarters , from a combination of a reduction in liquid resources and the measures taken to return to a positive cash flow . |
| 25 | It was a stretched Telecaster , using the same ‘ slab ’ ash body with no contouring whatsoever , while its elongated top horn extended to above the twelfth fret and offered good balance for an instrument of its considerable weight . |
| 26 | In the first ten years of nationalisation the proportion in fact declined to around a third . |
| 27 | A SHIPPING group , whose profits last year dived by nearly a third , has told shareholders to expect an even lower result for 1993 . |
| 28 | Nyerere 's lament could be repeated by nearly every Third World country for nearly every commodity . |
| 29 | The large wartime backlog of investment left considerable scope for economies in new investment , as in the first ten years the length of distribution mains in service were extended by nearly a third . |
| 30 | Fortunately chic Miss Selfridges fashion , right , is still a big hit with women and while profits from Selfridges the Oxford Street store , soared by nearly an eighth to £5.5 million . |