Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think it was , was it six fifty for one lot of meal and eight for another ? |
| 2 | Sudanese troops , allegedly accompanied by Ugandan rebels loyal to former Ugandan President Idi Amin [ see p. 36391 for failed attempt by Amin to return to Uganda in January 1989 ] , crossed into north-western Uganda on Dec. 29 and attacked an NRA detachment at Oraba , killing one Ugandan soldier before returning to Sudan . |
| 3 | His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa . |
| 4 | Memorial recorded a splendid 1-1 extra time home draw with Almithak , but Melling Vics lost 2-1 against Temple Inn and Alt Park United lost 32 after extra time against Seddons . |
| 5 | Economic Ministers from the six member states of the Association of South East Asian Nations ( ASEAN — comprising Brunei , Indonesia , Malaysia , the Philippines , Singapore and Thailand ) met in Manila , Philippines , on Oct. 22-23 [ see p. 38535 for 1991 meeting in Malaysia ] . |
| 6 | The new release conforms to the Open Software Foundation 's Application Environment Specification on the Series 700 for increased portability among Foundation systems ; Posix 1003.2 , which standardises the Posix shells and command set across Unix system to aid portability between Posix-compliant systems ; FDDI support ; Worldwide Portability Interface , providing a standardised interface for writing international programs as specified by X/Open Portability Guide 4 ; X 11.5 with up to 25% interactive performance increase over X11.4 ; OSF/Motif 1.2 with drag-and-drop mechanism for moving objects and exchanging data between applications ; and System V streams support . |
| 7 | [ See p. 36870 for Japanese suspension of aid to Myanma in October 1988 and the partial resumption of aid in February 1989 . ] |
| 8 | The platform and socio-economic strategy were published on Nov. 30 for public consultation before submission to the party 's seventh national congress , scheduled for May 1991 . |
| 9 | Fuels that emit a large volume of CO 2 for each unit of energy produced will attract a high tax . |
| 10 | The fourth round of bilateral Middle East peace talks between Israeli , Jordanian , Syrian , Palestinian and Lebanese delegations opened in Washington on Feb. 24 [ see p. 38740 for third round of bilaterals in Washington and first round of multilaterals in Moscow in January ] . |
| 11 | He found support in the Musée Royal des Beaux-Arts and Rubenianum in Antwerp who were able to secure funds from the Crédit Communal de Belgique for an exhibition that would display the achievement of Flemish painting as part of Antwerp 's celebrations in 1993 as Cultural Capital of Europe . |
| 12 | It was the fourth such agreement under a international debt initiative launched by the US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ; see p. 37243 for similar agreement with Mexico ] . |
| 13 | Feb. 22 After second meeting with Gorbachev Aziz announces Iraqi acceptance of Soviet plan ; but Bush ultimatum demands that Iraq begin troop evacuation of Kuwait by midday on Feb. 23 . |
| 14 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on margins . |
| 15 | PHOENIX TIMBER 'S profit fell from £995,000 to £479,000 in the half year to September 30 after some pressure on mrgins . |
| 16 | They found that less than one-half of total lending to industry in the UK had a maturity of less than one year in 1980 , with a similar percentage for France and West Germany , and an even higher one for Japan . |
| 17 | The 1992 budget was approved in the Knesset by 60 votes to 53 with one abstention on Jan. 2 , two days after a Dec. 31 deadline and a matter of hours before the government was to press for approval of a one-month provisional budget . |
| 18 | Under the Federal Constitution which came into force in 1901 , legislative authority within the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a bicameral Federal Parliament consisting of the Senate whose 76 members ( 12 from each of the country 's constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory of Canberra ) are directly elected for a six-year term and retire by rotation , one-half from each state on June 30 of each third year ; and the 148-member House of Representatives elected for three years ; each state has its own legislature , government and constitution . |
| 19 | In Glamorgan and Gwent the votes were overwhelming , but even in Welsh-speaking Gwynedd , with its two Plaid Cymru MPs , there was a 2 to 1 majority against devolution . |
| 20 | LEAs in sparsely populated rural areas have to pay the most for transport , the highest being 93 per primary child and 175 per secondary child in Powys , Wales . |
| 21 | Major civil disturbances occurred in 1980 in Bristol , in 1981 throughout the UK and in 1985 at Broadwater Farm in Tottenham and again in Birmingham . |
| 22 | The terminals start with a 14″ 1024 by 768 screen with 4Mb of memory and include a $2,900 17″ 1,152 by 900 monitor with 4Mb and a high-end 20″ 1,280 by 1,024 screen with 4Mb displaying two pages of text side-by-side . |
| 23 | The mechanism of the protective function may be as follows : cholesterol is mobilised from the arterial wall by HDL 3 which is converted to HDL 2 by this process of cholesterol enrichment . |
| 24 | Erm that 's when it starts to get busy because there 's like the there 's like the eleven til three kind of kind of kind of busy time er |
| 25 | Britain has the highest proportion of population over 75 of any country in Europe . |
| 26 | As we can see from Table 7.3 , the share of total incomes going in tax and social security contributions increased sharply to take nearly two-thirds of all income in Denmark and Sweden . |
| 27 | Wolfgang Berghofer , a former mayor of Dresden , was given a suspended one-year prison sentence and fined DM36,000 ( US$23,000 ) on Feb. 7 for fraudulent activity in connection with the East German local government elections in May 1989 [ see p. 36665 ] . |
| 28 | It is the interpretation of the utterance in context which permits the hearer to draw such inferences ( see Chapter 7 for further discussion of inferences ) . |
| 29 | After two washes with 1 ml FACS buffer , cells were incubated with FITC conjugated goat antimouse lgG or goat antirat lgG antibodies diluted 1:10 for one hour at 4°C , followed by another two washes . |
| 30 | The composition of the leadership confirmed the close co-operation between the SACP and the ANC , many of whose policy-makers were also SACP members [ see p. 37176 for apparent rejection by Slovo of the party 's former " hardline " reputation ] . |