Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] a [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GIGN , with the finish of all but the parachuting stage within sight , gave up all chances to sleep for 58 hours to pull out a three hour lead over the second placed team , L'Arche . |
| 2 | For the third time this season Cheadle were put on the rack but they mustered their strength in the final quarter to open up a 14–10 lead . |
| 3 | For Rangers the chance to open up a four point gap on Celtic before the end of October . |
| 4 | Two minutes into the second half Elwood 's drop goal reinforced Ireland 's victory push and within minutes the same player was on target with a penalty to open up a six point gap . |
| 5 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 6 | I want to set up a four foot tank for Dwarf Cichlids . |
| 7 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 8 | I am going to set up a two foot tank . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Social Services plan to set up a 24 hour helpline . |
| 10 | The WWF and the University of Joensuu wants to set up a dozen seal reservations in the area , organising volunteers to hand-feed seals with protein-rich food to ensure that they reach breeding age . |
| 11 | Roared on by considerable vocal support , Matt Cook took his goal tally to eight with two more goals , and then set up Becky Ashdown to round off a 3–0 win . |
| 12 | His first major title — the Strachan Professional — received little publicity , but his 38-minute four-frame coup de grace on Parrott to wrap up a 9–3 win took him to fifth in the rankings and made anything seem possible . |
| 13 | With such complacency , it would be an abrogation of our duty to allow two commercial companies to ruin a major industry and its jobs and to wipe out a multi-billion pound investment made on behalf of taxpayers . |
| 14 | There seemed no place for him in the context of an England team battling to wipe out a one goal deficit against a reeling American side in Foxboro . |
| 15 | Me I know how to put up a four tent six tent . |
| 16 | On May 9 Albie Sachs , a civil rights lawyer and member of the ANC legal and constitutional affairs committee ( who returned to South Africa on May 4 after 24 years in exile — see also p. 36073 ) , revealed that he had helped to draw up a 1985 code of conduct outlawing torture , but acknowledged that detention camps still existed . |
| 17 | Swail led 51-35 with only six colours remaining , but he fluffed opportunities to sink the green and brown before a bad safety shot on the blue allowed Hendry to run out a 60-51 victor . |
| 18 | Fortunately for Marcel Martin and his Rugby World Cup ( RWC ) organising committee the Namibians went into over-drive and , inspired by Mans , managed to turn around a 10–4 half-time deficit to beat the fired-up Zimbabweans 16–10 . |
| 19 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |
| 20 | A transitional season designed to bring about a 10-10-18 system in the 1994/95 season is accepted as being necessary . |