Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 26-way tree is a multi-way tree with 26 pointers leading from each node . |
| 2 | One of the reasons for this is that there are six cats living in this house . |
| 3 | Our community has three artists working from these workshops and this seemed an ideal opportunity to show their work . |
| 4 | I then spent three months going through these letters and realised that the whole heart of the book would have to be changed . |
| 5 | At the CMAC 1991–2 annual meeting members heard that the three counsellors working in that period averaged 68 interviews each . |
| 6 | This code is in the form of triplets , a different combination of three nucleotides corresponding to each amino acid . |
| 7 | the teacher acts as a conscience I I explained to them I 'm not expecting them to make the child do the work , but to be their conscience so they can say look you 've got three assessments coming in that week if you leave it till Friday night you 're up the creak without a paddle ! |
| 8 | As Wigglesworth suggested , only perinatal deaths due to asphyxia in labour and immaturity directly reflect the effectiveness of medical care , and these categories accounted for only 16% and 23% of perinatal deaths , respectively , in this series — an average of 46 deaths a year from an average of over 11000 births occurring in several hospitals . |
| 9 | Fig 3 illustrates a typical three octave fingering of this scale , which should be played using alternate picking throughout . |
| 10 | There is one flat , broad , apical papillae flanked by two rows of each of about 5 papillae flanking on each side , the row situated on the surface of the oral plates are considered to be supplementary . |
| 11 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 12 | What was I doing consorting with these freaks ? |
| 13 | The study will involve 250 women including past , current and recovering anorexics as well as 50 others suffering from another eating disorder , bulimia . |
| 14 | Among the nine projects benefiting from this year 's grants were Southwark , which receives £29,555 to provide floodlighting at the Orchard Sports Centre and the London Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award Scheme , which gets £25,000 . |
| 15 | It is easy to see that tree structures representing lexicons ( such as those just described ) are wasteful of memory because on average there is only one route leading from any node . |
| 16 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 17 | In the Hall study accidents at 177 signalized crossroads were analysed over a period of four years , over this period accidents involving a vehicle turning right outnumbered those to vehicles turning left by a ratio of 6.6:1 ( accidents involving one vehicle turning in each direction were excluded from the analysis ) . |
| 18 | Right then we , we 'll leave some of the physics and stuff that we 've been doing behind now and just spend one lecture looking at some chemistry which I know will be equally popular . |
| 19 | At that time the Hon. Gentleman expressed the hope that between then and Report his Hon. Friend the Minister would look into the matter , talk to his right Hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State and decide that it was more logical to have one body looking after all transport issues in Scotland . |
| 20 | I walked in and there were twelve fellas sitting in this room and I had to sing in front of them all . |
| 21 | One factor leading to this complexity is the co-existence of two systems of measurement — the metric and Imperial systems . |
| 22 | THE 16 Europeans playing in this week 's Standard Register Ping tournament at Moon Valley , mostly gave their executive director , Andrea Doyle , a wide berth when she arrived in Phoenix for discussions on next year 's Solheim Cup . |
| 23 | Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] . |
| 24 | Recent research shows that this is the case in at least one species belonging to this category ( the European sparrow hawk : I. Newton , personal communication ) . |
| 25 | One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981 . |
| 26 | In many of the Longhorns , however , the horns spread outwards and upwards instead and some have one horn growing in that fashion while the other curves down or one or both forwards rather than upwards or downwards . |
| 27 | I 've spent the last 40 years protesting about all sorts of things and now I 'm protesting for my railway , not theirs , ours . |
| 28 | That 's why this week is so important , not just to me but all the 183 players trying for those cards . ’ |
| 29 | This process of dealing with her impressions was dovetailed into her everyday tasks without the two activities interfering with each other . |
| 30 | With four minutes remaining until half time McCoy , so often a match-winner and making his second appearance after a prolonged lay-off with a groin injury , darted down the left flank , crossed and Ferris with a hurtling header of power beat the hapless Eachus . |