Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DARREN Clarke has jumped another 15 places in golf 's World rankings . |
| 2 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's far worse in many other districts . |
| 3 | In this Authority that one proposition stands to lose some fifty teachers to schools and it 's ah worse in many other districts . |
| 4 | The helicopter , which covers six counties , has flown four hundred missions and saved at least twenty lives in the last year . |
| 5 | A businessman has given five thousand pounds to a dying man so that he and his family can stay in their home . |
| 6 | The 24-year-old has claimed all three Blades goals so far and is out on his own as the leading candidate for Lineker 's shirt , according to team-mate Ian Bryson . |
| 7 | It 's estimated that the earthquake in India has claimed twenty thousand lives . |
| 8 | Mark has grouped these five conflict stories at the beginning of his Gospel in order to show that Jesus is opposed to the religious authorities from the outset . |
| 9 | A United Nations relief convoy has evacuated eight hundred refugees from the besieged Moslem town of Srebrenica . |
| 10 | The German show , which offers substantial prize money , has attracted all four members of Britain 's European Championship-winning team — Skelton , Joe Turi and the Whitaker brothers — as well as the reserve , David Broome . |
| 11 | The scheme has attracted several hundred objections . |
| 12 | The thrust and strain which has dominated these twenty-five years now seems quite irrelevant . |
| 13 | The Brazilian government 's Indian agency , FUNAI , has demarcated some 300,000 hectares of Arara territory , but has failed to mark out another 687,000 hectares , despite the fact that this is also officially recognized as Arara land . |
| 14 | Welcome back : A two-man computer company has won two million pounds in damages from games giant Nintendo who tried to stop them marketing a revolutionary new invention . |
| 15 | So far , the People 's Bank has lent two million dollars to 9,000 artisans , small-scale farmers and businesspeople . |
| 16 | Jeremy Lewison , Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery 's Modern Collection and author of a new monograph ( Phaidon Press , 1992 , £17.95 ) , is guest curator and has selected some forty-five paintings and reliefs as well as twenty-five etchings from the series published by Francois Lafranca in 1965–68 . |
| 17 | Clark cites the example of the Newcastle-based North Eastern Housing Association , which has built some 3,000 homes in rural areas within that region . |
| 18 | The year has seen another 12 projects added to the active list bringing the total considered to 60 since TRANSAID was launched in early 1988 . |
| 19 | Prices have remained high-indeed the FT-SE index has risen another 55 points since then — allowing even the most passive of private investors , including unit trust holders , to take advantage of the market . |
| 20 | The annual cost of crimes involving cars in one city has exceeded five million pounds . |
| 21 | To date Prince has averaged 4.1 million sales per album . |
| 22 | ‘ It has done forty thousand miles , ’ he was saying . |
| 23 | The government is not averse to pump priming book provision and has done this three times in the last six years , for the introduction of the GCSE examination , for acquisitions in university libraries and , most recently , for books for the National Curriculum . |
| 24 | erm in that situation I fail to understand how that can necessarily be to be honest , because the vehicle in question has done eighty thousand miles . |
| 25 | Aston Martin , the luxury car company has made two hundred workers redundant in the past two years . |
| 26 | In its 77-year history , laughs Gauntlett , the firm has manufactured some 11,000 cars , rather fewer than three a week . |
| 27 | Law : The other side of the crime : Pat Healy on 10 years of progress by Victim Support , a national charity which has helped 1.5 million people |
| 28 | An inspection of the banks and towpath has shown another 50 yard stretch is also unstable . |
| 29 | Since the mid-1980s he has produced some thirteen books of aerial photography , consolidating his position as the world 's leading exponent of such work . |
| 30 | In total , taking both seasons together , he has had 13 top-10 finishes from 27 starts and has only missed three cuts . |