Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [art] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be possible , using the latest technology , to build a computer today that could put scores on a million positions a second ; such a machine would need more the 30 years to look five moves ahead . |
| 2 | How do you know like an eighteen year old is someone responsible |
| 3 | Perhaps she could stay just the one night , then look for something cheaper in the morning . |
| 4 | On Sept. 16 Rubia had explained the move to establish a new party " as a strategy that could help bring together the two factions of [ FORD ] " . |
| 5 | That is handy if you could bring just the six pounds . |
| 6 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 7 | It 's hoped the building and ten acres of land could fetch over a million pounds so the creditors can be paid off . |
| 8 | Surfing can only sustain about a dozen photographers . |
| 9 | The tribunal ruled that Mr Brennan had no family responsibilities and so could live away from home for two or three years and could return home every eight weeks or more often if he chose to pay his own fare . |
| 10 | There are now companies in Japan , Europe and the US building computers which can perform over a billion operations per second ( a gigaFlop ) . |
| 11 | It will affect about a dozen reactors , all of which are used for research purposes only . |
| 12 | You must make about a hundred times more than you need . |
| 13 | The present level of oil tax revenue will build about a million hotel rooms per year , providing really excellent facilities of the standard expected by overseas visitors to our country . |
| 14 | how many clients we 've got , you know for updating , what the capacities are and plus er we do n't know erm what sort of cable we 've got in so they might have only a ten P a cable when they already have nine pairs in use |
| 15 | He had to tempt his man to go on the offensive and close with him , sure of his superior speed and skill , because his intended surprise attack would have only the one chance of success . |
| 16 | but five pound on putting that away definitely , every week , as it 's all paid petrol money , so now I 've got eighty pound , eighty pound is in me , me , one of me purses and that is , it has on , there again , I mean everything , not a lot , if you 'd to go in you 'd see , it 'd have a , it 'd have erm petrol money , it 's eighty pound , now I 'm saving that so by the time aunty Mary comes I shall have probably a hundred pounds in that |
| 17 | The original version of this machine — which Nelson eventually patented in 1955 — could cut about a dozen bars a minute : the version now in use can cut up to 400 a minute . |
| 18 | The plethora of dams will uproot over a million people — including many tribals — and submerge about 850,000 acres of forest and 500,000 acres of cultivated land — almost as much as it will irrigate . |
| 19 | Such discourtesy could surely mean only the one thing , she thought to herself — but she said nothing , waiting for him to continue . |
| 20 | The state of the river and a temperature barely above freezing means it is going to be hard today but I will still feed about a dozen maggots when I cast in , and them the same again when the float is halfway down the swim . |
| 21 | With permission , I will put together the two motions on the Order Paper . |
| 22 | If we were just gon na bolt together the two unions then that may be able to be done in a couple of years or so , but if we 're trying to build something better , then we 're talking about a project that takes place over several years . |
| 23 | Could I raise just the one minute of the Tail Conference , David ? |
| 24 | I 'll come home every three weeks , and Granny and Grandfather will look after you while I 'm away . |
| 25 | Incidentally , it does n't include the disposal of Smithmark We 've also er we 've also gone in for other cost reduction exercises , for instance at er Dalton with a review of warehousing and distribution er , we should save about a million pounds in a full year and we 've been ramming home to our chief executives the need for annual payroll reviews to be geared to the profitability of the company rather than t rather than to the rate of inflation er , or even , er in , even the market place . |
| 26 | Yeah , I could make , I could do their hair and do their clothes and their face and I 'd get about a hundred pounds , more than that . |
| 27 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 28 | But the early morning milkround means he can cover over a hundred miles a week in training … which makes the actual competition more bearable . |
| 29 | That 's why the new podiatry surgery centre at Burghill near Hereford is seen as a success ; it 'll handle around a thousand patients a year , patients who could otherwise spend years on the waiting list . |