Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [num] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're all going to go off one day and there 's nothing better than planning for it . |
| 2 | Aszal had all the documents required from a returning immigrant , but he was questioned for four hours and made to wait for four hours and then told he could go . |
| 3 | Physicians are concerned at the fact that heart patients sometimes have to wait between three months and a year for surgery . |
| 4 | Wounds were then left to heal for 18 hours and the position of the epithelial wound margin was noted in relation to the mesenchymal markers ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 5 | It is little use allowing conditions to deteriorate for three months and then to conduct a total clean-out of the filter and a 100% water change . |
| 6 | After a while , the lad turned up back at the farm and offered to work for two shillings and pay his own insurance stamp . |
| 7 | And when it 's pressed out of the grapes , the juice comes out , they allow it to stand for five days and then they put it into bottles . |
| 8 | Leave it to stand for 10 minutes and then shape into 8 or 10 burgers . |
| 9 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 10 | Relocation to a new area could , therefore , provide the opportunity to consolidate on one site and to provide sufficient area for future expansion . |
| 11 | Allow to simmer for 4 minutes and then , using a ladle , very carefully strain the liquid through a conical strainer covered with a muslin cloth . |
| 12 | It took about ten minutes to chew through one slice and only two very heavy loaves lasted us back to Newlyn . |
| 13 | Of course , in these difficult circumstances you seek to keep order , but I ask you to reflect on one problem and to see what you can do about it . |
| 14 | The committee was to consist of 35 members and its composition would be heavily weighted in favour of the VP , with 24 of its members from the ruling group , four from the opposition Union of Moderate Parties ( UMP ) and the other seven from various social and religious organizations in the community . |
| 15 | Measures adopted included the creation of the post of Prime Minister ; in addition the political bureau was now to consist of 400 members and would be a deliberative rather than an executive body ; the executive role would be assumed by an 80-member central committee ; and the party would henceforth have an elected secretary-general . |
| 16 | On March 17 the Botswana National Front and Botswana People 's Party called on the government to resign within six months and to call an early general election . |
| 17 | The First Test in Sydney was a rusty performance with the backline 's cohesion missing during the first half before the dominance of the Wallaby forwards at the scrum and line-out took control in the second half to enable them to pile on 20 points and quickly reverse the 9–7 half-time deficit . |
| 18 | I DO N'T relish the prospect of being skinned alive on Parliament Green if the Prime Minister was to win by one vote and I had abstained . |
| 19 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 20 | We 've both had to cope with two recessions and undergo immense change in that process . |
| 21 | Thorfinn sent Tuathal to sleep for ten minutes and , when he returned , dropped in his place on the bare earth of an old wattle barn , asleep before he stopped moving . |
| 22 | Since the war , the speeches have tended to last between 90 minutes and two and a half hours . |
| 23 | Fraser managed to deal with one aircraft and some trucks at Barce , Slonta was too heavily defended and Alston never managed to find Berka Main . |
| 24 | It is far easier from their point of view if they only need to deal with one entity and they will probably prefer that to be the purchaser as it is the purchaser that has taken over the business . |
| 25 | One way to do this is for each group to aim to divide into two groups and eventually to form a new church in the area where they meet . |
| 26 | In one , gimmel and G had to go in one pile and mem and M in another ; a further task required the subjects to put mem and G together and to put gimmel with M. |
| 27 | Whatever he tells me seems to go in one ear and out the other . |
| 28 | On April 9 a bill on territorial administration ( continuing the process of administrative decentralization begun in 1982 — see pp. 37327-28 ) was adopted in the National Assembly by 287 to 286 , thanks to support from 11 independents and one UDC member , with three crucial abstentions and with the PCF as well as the RPR , the UDF and the majority of the UDC voting against . |
| 29 | It took Everton only 15 minutes to get their noses in front when Mark Ward made the opening for Matt Jackson to burst between two defenders and pull the ball back for Cottee to steer it wide of the helpless Mark Crossley . |
| 30 | The aircraft passed 50°W longitude at 1150 hours and at that time communications could not be established , the aircraft was cleared to climb to 33,000 feet and this altitude was reached at 1217 hour . |