Example sentences of "[num ord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even th your chief supporter , the T N A , on September the nineteenth agreed that it was far better , it was far better to use the untapped human resource than to load the ca th the cost on to the community charge payer . |
| 2 | An eagle , gleaned with a 10ft putt at the 13th , got the Hope of Hertfordshire back on track but a bogey five at the 17th pegged him back again . |
| 3 | Leaders of Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary met at Visegrad in Hungary on February 15th to promote co-operation on these issues . |
| 4 | A telephone poll conducted by TV Asahi on January 17th found only 25% in favour of the war and 53% against . |
| 5 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 6 | Huw Davies , whose last-second dropped goal gave Wasps a dramatic 13–12 victory over Orrell last weekend , has a broken hand and misses Saturday 's Courage League match at Gloucester at Kingsholm . |
| 7 | SOMETHING new happened in the Middle East when 192 devout Libyan Muslims arrived in Israel on May 31st to visit Islam 's holy places in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | At the tenth and fourteenth inches |
| 9 | One of the features of the day will be a series of mini-lectures on just about every conceivable subject , and during the next few Ideas in Action programmes , I shall be talking to some of the lecturers about their topics and , hopefully , whetting your appetites sufficiently to want to join us on June the fourteenth to hear more . |
| 10 | A healthy rise of pressure over the UK on the 30th and 31st heralded a complete change of weather type and the resultant anticyclone of 1040 millibars central pressure gave over six hours of bright sunshine and calm conditions over a good part of the mainland . |
| 11 | After turning in 32 he treated the sun-basking crowds to some confident shot making , adding further birdies at the tenth and fourteenth to underline his command |
| 12 | I went to the 280th recorded meeting at Adel near Leeds in May 1988 . |
| 13 | Fretting a string at the first and sixteenth frets simultaneously gives around 0.5mm gap between the string and the top of the ninth fret on the D-18 model , and about 0.7mm on the D-32 . |
| 14 | All right let's see if we can get you a bugler nobody 's ringing at the moment but you want a bugler for a week on Sunday the fourteenth to blow reveille and the Last Post at eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock a week on Sunday at Calverton in Nottinghamshire . |
| 15 | The first fighter to use P–5 Mustangs in the Eighth Air Force , the 357th had a faster rate of kills than any other unit within the Mighty Eighth The 357th featured may top ‘ ace ’ pilots and five survivors , Chuck Yeager , Clarence Bud Anderson , Leonard Kit Carson , Richard Peterson and Tommy Hayes were all present at Oshkosh to be reunited with five Mustangs that had been painted in the markings carried by ‘ their ’ wartime aircraft . |
| 16 | The scene , a stag-party 's post-pub , pre-dancing meal , was not going well : it was up to the fourteenth take , and the continuity man was looking frazzled . |
| 17 | Mark James has moved up 15 places to 38th following his victory in the Tenerife Open . |
| 18 | When Paul 's score at the 17th came on they were close to erupting , so while Nick signed his card I stood beside the 18th green . |
| 19 | On the inner seventeenth and nineteenth inches , |
| 20 | But a night-marish six at the 164-yard 17th undid all the good work and it took a birdie at the last to rescue a par round . |
| 21 | On January 15th came the King 's speech , announcing a full legislative programme . |
| 22 | The second aroused more positive interest , though it is unclear with what precise effect . |
| 23 | More promising hints about the islands are expected from the Soviet foreign minister , Alexander Bessmertnykh , who was due in Tokyo on March 29th to agree on Mr Gorbachev 's itinerary . |
| 24 | Usually , the first name to prefix indicates the weaving group and the second refers to the group whose design has been employed . |
| 25 | The second refers to the degree of formality in the physical arrangements and court room atmosphere ; the major obstacle here is seen as the adversarial system of examining and cross-examining witnesses ( JUSTICE , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | One relates to the absolute and relative locational properties of the spatial entities themselves ( the points , lines and polygons ) while the second refers to the attributes or properties of the spatial entities . |
| 27 | The two numbers should not be compared because the first refers to words which have the same word boundaries , and the second refers to words in the same region . |
| 28 | The chief rabbi made two visits , the first to distribute his Book of Jewish Thought , the second to plant a commemorative tree . |
| 29 | Second To support the badger protection groups in their efforts to mobilize volunteer vigils over badger setts day and night . |
| 30 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |