Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [num] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Larger containers may need two water bottles .
2 Each entry should include ten news stories or features , three of which should be 350 words or more with one giving a pupils ' view of what the next government 's policies should be .
3 A new scoring method should give four championship points for each win , none for a loss and two for a drawn game .
4 It seemed perfectly natural that I should spend one evening being waited on by uniformed retainers at the home of an important industrialist whose son I taught , and the next in a seedy bar drinking beer with a group of workers from the factory where I gave private courses in technical English .
5 Applicants should possess five GCE passes ( or GCSE passes at grade C or above ) , one of which must be at ‘ A ’ level or two at ‘ AS ’ level .
6 They work on five residential courses , when they must produce 17 guide dog and owner units , and then , of course , sit the inevitable final exams .
7 The final result in this case is that such a molecule should have six IR bands , all with coincident Raman bands , plus three Raman bands with no IR counterparts .
8 So to be complete the model should have three input systems and three output systems , plus a central ( semantic/cognitive ) system .
9 Lord Swinton presented a paper to Cabinet on 24 January arguing that Britain should have three airline companies : the nationalized BOAC for long-haul overseas services ; a company responsible for services to Europe ; and another one for services to South America .
10 In the first year , students must take two history units .
11 It is recommended that those who have little or no experience of investigation techniques should complete 81218 Community Welfare 1 .
12 Tiles must pass 100 freeze/thaw cycles , which is twice the French requirement , for example — and a first line of defence ( provided you specified BS tiles ) when defending a property owner 's claim .
13 Built into the fabric of this entitlement is the requirement that it should embrace five curriculum characteristics , the first three being that it must be broad , balanced and relevant .
14 A model describing the cleavage of DNA by Eco K has been proposed [ 12 ] which suggests that this DNA should bind two endonuclease molecules which will translocate DNA until the endonuclease molecules meet and then the DNA should be cut .
15 Using the estimates for the BP options , the hedge ratios work out as follows : therefore , for the options expiring in October we should write 1.1886 option contracts per 1000 shares held and for the options maturing in April we should write 1.9279 contracts per 1000 share held .
16 On its own it 's weighty enough ; but then you must add fourteen golf clubs , a dozen or so balls , an umbrella , a set of waterproofs , spare sweaters , caps and visors , half a dozen golf gloves , a book of rules , tins of sweets , bars of chocolates , apples , bananas and other fruit and , in Jack Mason 's case , sometimes a couple of bottles of strong beer .
17 You 'll need two plastic buckets , a couple of pounds of ‘ pea shingle ’ from the local builders ' merchant and a few drops of rosemary oil available from health stores or chemists .
18 I 'll send two pound postage .
19 Because without those eleven appointments I 've calculated I might have two blow outs , two people might want to rearrange , two people want to think about it , I 've got to have my eleven , to make my two sales .
20 Carry on down to the oven and you 'll find six shelf positions and enough room for a 25lb turkey and all the trimmings .
21 I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make
22 ‘ Aah 'd give mi life ti save my brother , ’ he continued , ‘ yet you objected ti getting wet ti save yours . ’
23 The hearing , which is now 12 weeks old , was told that the fitting out of Britain 's first civil PWR could generate 6000 manufacturing jobs .
24 On the hillside facing us I could see four turkey vultures scavenging in the carcass of a raccoon .
25 At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job .
26 Britain 's 2,000 kilometres of motorway could accomodate 130,000 wind turbines safely and efficiently at a cost of £10,000 for each device .
27 The project , operated by Hamilton Oil on behalf of a consortium which includes LASMO and Monument Oil & Gas , could create 3,000 construction jobs on contracts which include building the pipeline terminal at Point of Ayr , cleared yesterday by the Welsh Office , and the conversion of the Connah 's Quay power station to gas burning .
28 Girardelli suffered severe bruising to his hip and the small of his back and has been advised to rest for a month and so could miss six World Cup races .
29 Even Caracas in Venezuela , a small capital as South American cities went , could boast four railway stations .
30 The pitch will be in use from 10am to 4pm , which could force one hockey semi-final to be staged as late as 4–30pm , or one or both to go elsewhere .
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