Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [verb] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gemmill had a 21st minute goal disallowed for pushing and two minutes later , Icelandic star Toddy Orlygsson headed wide when Woan 's delicate chip left the goal at his mercy . |
| 2 | This influences the expectations that the public in Easton have of the police , and of their role in the community — a point which one constable made by explaining that one resident in Easton , upon finding himself locked out of his home , called at the station asking for the duplicate set of keys to his house which he thought the police would routinely possess for the residents ' benefit ; phone calls from the public asking for air and train information also sometimes occur . |
| 3 | Kuhn mentions a number of criteria that can be used in assessing whether one theory is better than a rival . |
| 4 | By the time he had got to suggesting that 126 card-carrying Communists were on the staff of the New York Times Sunday supplement , Matusow 's credibility was fraying , and , in 1956 , after a series of volte-faces he found himself on the wrong end of a five-year sentence for perjury . |
| 5 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 6 | It may be noted in passing that one of the results of their synthesis , here as in the case of Molla Yegan , is a certain idealizing of the early Muftilik in an important respect . |
| 7 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 8 | If not , they can be estimated by knowing that one time zone equals 15 ° longitude . |
| 9 | Last year , a Barnes conservator was fired after warning that two of the tour 's centrepieces , Matisse 's ‘ Joy of Life ’ and Seurat 's ‘ Poseuses ’ were too fragile to travel . |
| 10 | It countered claims by the companies that local marine life was not endangered by proving that 25 local species could not survive in the polluted water . |
| 11 | Second , you , perhaps aided by SAVE or one of the other societies , could provide examples of similar cases that have been successfully resolved . |
| 12 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |