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Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [prep] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Also drawn in charcoal were two other features of religious importance : a group of five-pointed stars and a mystical two-line formula , each consisting of all 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet — the ultimate anagram which , when rearranged , could quite literally be used to express all human knowledge and all experience .
2	‘ I would be prepared to write a leader on this project , but I would find it difficult to take the opposing point of view to that given in those two leaders .
3	This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 .
4	This led to two one act operas to texts written by David Pountney with piano accompaniment for Scottish Opera 's school tours .
5	This compares to some 100,000 tonnes in the mid-1970s sold to a smaller Community .
6	Some cater for several thousand students , full- and part-time .
7	By the end of the inquiry , he had cross-examined nearly every witness from either the nuclear industry or a government department and delivered vast reams of his own evidence on every subject covered , some amounting to several hundred pages of closely-typed script .
8	To understand how this applies to all 12 keys it is helpful to know the starting form , as each key will continue sequentially up the fretboard from the starting pattern .
9	The countries of the European Community used 1.7 million tonnes of fertiliser in 1953 but this grew to 8.9 million tonnes by 1982 .
10	The only potential drawback , and this relates to all four systems , is the presence of iron ore deposits , wire netting or overhead high-voltage cables close to or within the working area .
11	This extends across all five years and gives students the opportunity to handle animals from the start of the course .
12	This continued for some 20 years .
13	This continued for some ten years , until the company announced its end in January 1977 .
14	The lesson of these observations is that one must be prepared to operate within this two tier business structure ; establish friendship first and then move to the second stage of actual business negotiations .
15	This brings to three million hectares the total land area recognized as Indian since 1988 .
16	The middle layer contains 24 nodes , each connected to all four outputs from the bottom layer .
17	Each deals with several million credit inquiries a year .
18	There is so little to choose between these four locator systems that I have no fixed preference and would not recommend you to buy one rather than any other .
19	These vary from simple three way junctions to fully-fledged units with adjustable taps like the one shown .
20	Bush threatened to veto the compromise bill which seemed likely to emerge from these two versions of the unemployment legislation .
21	These hatched from twenty three eggs and since this first clutch the female has laid a further fifteen which are being artificially incubated at the moment .
22	And on that one is er , sixty three shared by nine six time sixty three divided by nine
23	It is likely to amount to several hundred pounds and the higher the percentage borrowed , the more you pay .
24	‘ I have a good business partner but I still find it hard dealing with this 365 days a year .
25	A Russian , the first of nine charter flights due to ferry in nine hundred tonnes of rice over the next two weeks .
26	His opportunism , his cheating , even his charm , all stemmed from that one flaw of nature ; weakness of character .
27	Are you all done at one hundred pounds .
28	At eighty pounds , any more at eighty pounds eighty five , thank you , at ninety pounds ninety five , a hundred at one hundred against you at the back , at one hundred , you all done at one hundred pounds .
29	Sixty on the aisle sixty five sixty five standing , all done at sixty five pounds ?
30	All done , it 's against you two thousand , are you all done at two thousand pounds standing on my right then and I 'll sell at two thousand pounds .