Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diana Dors was never really thought of as a great actress … indeed she once described her film career as ’ a lot of make believe held up by 37 inch bra cups ’ . |
| 2 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 3 | Although Milken could have received up to 28 years in prison , most observers were surprised by the severity of his sentence . |
| 4 | When the final numbers are tallied , sales of new cars and light trucks in the United States in 1990 will almost certainly have fallen by about 500,000 , to 14m vehicles . |
| 5 | Demographic trends mean that by 1994 the number of 16 to 19 year olds will have dropped by about one quarter . |
| 6 | The Sun now emits ultraviolet radiation , but a young T Tauri type star would have emitted up to 10 000 times more . |
| 7 | What I , what I 'd like to do is , we can say that we 're we can make er a profit or a loss and we can give the figure , so this might have come out at seven thousand two hundred whatever . |
| 8 | An interesting and very entertaining hybrid of flamboyant style and too predictable content , Mo' Better Blues balances Lee 's characteristic from-the-hip immediacy of camerawork , dialogue and performances against a storyline which , but for some very significant trimmings of colour , language and attitude , could well have come out of 1950s Hollywood . |
| 9 | Such failures are not only reflected on the score board — Scotland could well have turned round at 16–10 — but also in the morale of the side . |
| 10 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 11 | They could have applied up to five years . |
| 12 | The narrower part , c. 3 m ( 10 ft ) wide , running the full length of the north side , could have been a service corridor or store for fodder ; alternatively , this could have housed up to 15 or more horses , with the wider section accommodating carts , wagons , fodder or other stores . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a macabre thought ’ , wrote Monica Furlong in the Spectator ( 30 June ) , ‘ that if the Canterbury Special had crashed last Tuesday morning it would have wiped out at one go practically the whole of the English episcopate together with numerous foreign archbishops and bishops , most of the Orthodox patriarchs , the leaders of the Lutheran Churches in half a dozen countries of Europe and the heads of our own Free Churches . ’ |
| 14 | When it was on scheduled service , the jumbo would have had up to 450 passengers and 12 crew on board . |
| 15 | She would have handed over to one of her colleagues , but somehow she just felt this case needed her personal attention . |
| 16 | A stone of about eighteen inch four by four with the appropriate heading I would have thought up to four names , depending on how many names there is in the |
| 17 | it probably would have sold out in nineteen eighty eight |
| 18 | Without the wee man we would n't have got out of Div II ( IMO ) , which in turn means we would n't have attracted the likes of Macca and Cuntona , etc . |
| 19 | I do n't see how he should have got off with 7 years . |
| 20 | Mitterrand , a staunch defender of French culture , may be a reluctant participant at the event , although his original objections must have melted back in 1987 when the American company said that with this , the fourth of its parks ( there are two in the United States and one outside Tokyo ) , it would create 12,000 jobs … |
| 21 | She must have weighed in around one thirty-five , was twenty-five-six years old . |
| 22 | Southampton should have hit back after 28 minutes when Carl Tiler pulled down Nicky Banger . |
| 23 | ‘ Otherwise she 'd have gone over to one of the boys . |
| 24 | The planned launch of the German Atmos satellite — which should have gone up in 1995 — may be cancelled due to a funding shortfall of around £300-400 million . |
| 25 | It 's just those two that 'll have gone down by five per cent which are the sabre machine bearings . |
| 26 | It has been predicted that , by 2025 , vehicles on the road will have increased by over 100 per cent . |
| 27 | If you remember every word in this book , your memory will have recorded about two million pieces of information : the order in your brain will have increased by about two million units . |
| 28 | Twelve times integral of X squared D X well if we 'd have started off with X squared we 'd could have we would have if we 've started off with X cubed we would have finished up with three X cubed |
| 29 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 30 | If this had given eighteen times it then you would have started off with one eighteenth . |