Example sentences of "[subord] [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure to articulate these clearly , alternating your plucking fingers except where raking from the 1st to 2nd strings ( notes E to A and D to A ) . |
| 2 | The officer was than joined from the next flat by security guard Christopher Coyle , 39 . |
| 3 | Even before 1905 , a solidly-based mass press had come into being , and in the last decade of the Empire there was an explosion in the publication of newspapers , while the number of books appearing more than trebled in the first decade and a half of the century . |
| 4 | Rather than wait for a third guy , Lee sets his ball down quick and hits it . |
| 5 | Rather than wait for the 28th CPSU congress due in July , as had been expected [ see pp. 37234-35 ] , a plenum of the CPSU central committee had given the party 's endorsement to the changes on March 11 . |
| 6 | Taylor wishes that in Sweden he had substituted the frustrated Gary Lineker with the pace of Tony Daley in the second match against France , rather than wait for the third and final game against Sweden to bring the curtain down on his captain 's international career . |
| 7 | Maybe send them out rather than wait till the next meeting , aha |
| 8 | In discussing the interactions of mental illnesses and brain failure Gray and Isaacs ( 1979 ) showed that illnesses such as depression , psychosis and neurosis do continue to occur in old age but are more likely to recur than appear for the first time . |
| 9 | Perhaps one of the best autobiographies ( although written in the third person ) is Flora Thompson 's Lark Rise to Candleford ( 1945 ) , followed by her later ( and not , in my opinion , as good ) Still Glides the Stream ( 1948 ) . |
| 10 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 11 | Another American firm , McDonnell Douglas , has a smaller product range , and by the mid-1980s was wondering whether to get out of the industry entirely rather than compete in the next generation of civil airliners . |
| 12 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |
| 13 | The GOTO statement makes BBCBASIC(Z80) jump to a specified line number rather than continuing with the next statement in the program . |
| 14 | Latterly flying as the flagship of Australian TV comedian Norman Gunston , the aircraft had been a familiar sight at Bankstown and , although grounded for the last ten years , had remained substantially complete . |
| 15 | Mallender than struck for a third time when Miandad could not resist one which moved away a little , Stewart gloving it with ease : 64 for 3 . |
| 16 | Despite the extensive decline , it is possible that more Redshanks still nest in Sussex today than did in the 19th century . |
| 17 | Employment was more easily lost than obtained in the eighteenth century , for supervisors with power of removal over their subordinates rarely had much inclination to investigate the accuracy of an accusation against one of their officers , if that charge was brought with the support of a man of political influence who might harm his own career if thwarted . |
| 18 | Although published in the eighteenth century , the idea was by no means new . |
| 19 | Although , at 12% , the proportion of Catholics employed is still out of step with the Northern Ireland population , Short 's points out that it has more than doubled over the last 10 years , while the proportion of Catholic apprentices taken on has trebled to 20% . |
| 20 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 21 | The number of babies born to single women over 40 has more than doubled over the last 10 years , with the North West top of the older mums ' baby league table . |
| 22 | The number of crimes which result in charges before a court has more than doubled in the last 10 years . |
| 23 | THE use of cheques and payment cards has more than doubled in the last 13 years . |
| 24 | Cases of malignant melanoma have more than doubled in the last 10 years in countries with a fair-skinned population . |
| 25 | Shares in News Corp and its UK arm News International have enjoyed a dramatic recovery and more than doubled in the last year . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , house prices and rents were reported to have more than doubled in the last 12 months . |
| 27 | O D A funding of British N G O activities has more than doubled in the last three years . |
| 28 | The number of Darlington firms going bust has more than doubled in the last two years . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 30 | If intended as a last step prior to dismissal , such a warning should describe the nature of the offence and make it clear that a repetition will cause you to be dismissed . |