Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they are welcome as an attempt to rationalise clinical practice , we believe the bulletin and leading article to be greatly misleading in implying an overperformance of surgery since it starts from the premise that grommet insertion is performed predominantly for hearing loss , which represents only one debilitating symptom of the many that glue ear may produce . |
| 2 | The survey showed that France produces only 6300 new science books a year , compared with more than 9000 in Britain . |
| 3 | B. Craigavon is being built as a linear city which joins together two older towns , Portadown and Lurgan . |
| 4 | Male rival Jean Charest , 34 , scored 1,369 votes , or 39pc and was still hoping to upset the front-runner in the next ballot , though Campbell needs only 71 more votes to win . |
| 5 | Constant frequency clock circuits controllable by a start/stop signal are available as single integrated circuits and the excitation sequence generator of Fig. 8.4(b) needs only two integrated circuit packages . |
| 6 | DENNIS CONNER , the defending America 's Cup skipper , shrugged off a poor start to claim his fifth win in six races against Bill Koch 's America Foundation in San Diego yesterday and needs only one more win to assure no worse than a sail-off for a place in the defenders ' final . |
| 7 | The New York exchange , which has only 100 non-US companies listed , and no German ones , would itself like the SEC 's stringent rules to be relaxed . |
| 8 | To add 153 public houses to AW 's tied estate , a sector in which AW is currently under-represented in the North West , where it currently has only 187 public houses . |
| 9 | In contrast to the Woodchester mosaic , that from Barton Farm has only two circular bands ( which on this occasion enclose a central roundel ) . |
| 10 | The company has only two attractive businesses now , the AS/400 at $14,000m or so a year , and the RS/6000 , at barely $2,000m — which means that in the rankings above , the truly viable computer businesses of IBM lie between Hewlett-Packard and DEC . |
| 11 | Targeting both the money supply and the exchange rate would be daft since the Government has only one effective instrument available , the level of interest rates . |
| 12 | Hugo Gurdon , our South-East Asia Correspondent , sets out the perks and pitfalls of a post that has only one certain outcome — it will end at midnight on June 30 , 1997 |
| 13 | This church is situated on the summit of a hill ; its façade has only one western tower complete and , between , is a gable containing a fine , five light , sculptured window with portal below . |
| 14 | Deserta Grande is 10km long and 1,500m wide , has only one practical landing place and used to be inhabited . |
| 15 | Note : The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty feel that pilots should advise would-be visitors that Koraloona has only one small hospital and one doctor . |
| 16 | ( 6 ) The final couplet has no adjectives , participles , indefinite articles or ‘ relational ’ verbs ( such as is ) ; its nouns are all concrete and ‘ original ’ whereas those of the rest of the poem are abstract and/or derived from verbs ( and it has only one plural noun ) . |
| 17 | This special location in the Galaxy is called the co-rotation circle , and each spiral galaxy has only one such co-rotation circle . |
| 18 | Situated five mile south of Kilkeel , Greencastle has only one narrow road . |
| 19 | But the council say the school , which has only one full-time teacher , is too small to cope with the new national curriculum . |
| 20 | The second , which has only one complete sentence out of six units bounded by full stops , very clearly does make sense ( at least it seems fair to predict that for most people it will ) . |
| 21 | The analysis of turnover by activity and geographical market has not been disclosed because the Company has only one major activity , which is carried out solely within North West England . |
| 22 | Yvresse has only one major city : Tor Yvresse . |
| 23 | ‘ Asterlite ’ is a ceramic-like material and so far it has only one major use — kitchen sinks . |
| 24 | In all the above cases , the lexical form in question has only one established sense . |
| 25 | For Mr Westbrook , the system has only one slight drawback : ‘ For each of the currencies we use we need a separate sales ledger . |
| 26 | A sentence has only one invariant meaning , or if it has more than one , as in the case of structural or lexical ambiguity , its meanings can be exactly specified . |
| 27 | A country once famed for providing a succession of wingers now has only one orthodox link with the past , Tranmere 's Nevin , and he was preferred to John Robertson in attack last night . |
| 28 | Kate dug them in the meadow grass around the trees in the orchard ( which has only one fruiting tree ) , accompanied now by just two huge sentimental wolfhounds , Petra and Titan , which ‘ trundle about ’ following wherever she goes . |
| 29 | " He has only one more try , " said Mama . |
| 30 | Now that Argo Navis has been dismantled , Hydra is the largest constellation in the sky , but it has only one bright star , the reddish Alpha or Alphard , nicknamed the ‘ Solitary One ’ because of its isolation ; it has been suspected of variability , though officially the magnitude is given as constant at 2.0 . |