Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made two of us . |
| 2 | ‘ So — does that make two of you ? ’ |
| 3 | The men at the ramparts had often tried in vain to tempt one of the stray artillery bullocks near enough to capture it , but at long last , towards the end of the first week of September , an old horse was captured at the banqueting hall and put to death . |
| 4 | Whilst operating systems as distinct as Unix SVR4 and DEC 's OpenVMS embrace the Posix standard , each has thousands of other calls beyond the specific Posix requirement , says Price , which means that it is not sufficient just to port an application to Posix and assume that it will then run on any Posix-compliant system , because it wo n't . |
| 5 | Practical Desk Sets or Systems Stations are available to house the pens and , in addition , the KC-1100 range is offered in sets of 12 twin pointed markers , each representing one of the nine colour groups into which the full range is divided . |
| 6 | The same oppositional balance is expressed in more prosaic language by two men who each described one of the two polarities : |
| 7 | ‘ The Sender of Eight has two for dinner , it seems , ’ said Druellae , looking hard at Rincewind . |
| 8 | If Wilko 's so keen to have Shez in the team that he 's willing to lose one of our best defenders , then why did he sell the man in the first place ? |
| 9 | After Hensley Henson 's death this became one of Ramsey 's favourite quotations . |
| 10 | This became one of the weirdest and most requested Peel session tracks ever . |
| 11 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 12 | With the downturn in North Sea drilling rig activity there was a corresponding reduction in site survey activities and this became one of the most fiercely competitive business sectors of 1992 . |
| 13 | This represents 12.6 of the world 's total invisible trade and significantly for the UK , invisibles contributed £13 billion more than visible trade earnings . |
| 14 | The use of Net Theory , often called ‘ Petri nets ’ after its initiator C A Petri ( Introduction to Net Theory — Brauer 1980 ) was considered , but discarded as being too specialised to meet one of the research project aims , ie to produce an enquiry method that could be used by practitioners with the minimum of training . |
| 15 | By half emptying one of the sacks onto the floor of the van he found he could drag it with his right hand and hold onto the box with his left . |
| 16 | This illustrates one of the problems of judges making policy decisions . |
| 17 | A TIDY Britain Group ‘ Bin it for Britain ’ roadshow is set to visit Wrexham on Aug 2 to encourage 15 to 25 year olds to use litter bins . |
| 18 | This highlights one of the recurring dilemmas in education , that is the difficulty of quantitatively measuring many of the desired outcomes of the education process . |
| 19 | This highlights one of the perennial difficulties of ‘ fertile ’ mules ; mules and donkeys are not always easy to distinguish , and even some horses have long ears . |
| 20 | This highlights one of the main differences of approach between normal communication within the family and the counselling process . |
| 21 | This highlights one of the problems of the approach that the time at which reasonableness should be considered is the time of contract . |
| 22 | Op. 2 contains one of the finest of all German songs , ‘ Schenk mir deinen Goldenen Kamm ’ , which is perhaps best suited to a male voice . |
| 23 | Labour Social drew 3-3 with Station Hotel Res , Merebrook Res defeated Shell Villa 4-2 and Coach & Horses won 3-2 against The Knot Star Cars . |
| 24 | This emphasises two of the dimensions , people and time , which impinge upon the planning process . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the probability that early in 1023 Thorkell the Tall was willing to accept one of Ælfgifu 's sons in exchange for his own when he and Cnut were reconciled strongly implies that the boy was openly acknowledged by Cnut . |
| 26 | There is hardly a treasure hunter anywhere in the world who has not heard of Charles Garrett , read at least one of his numerous books on the subject , or at one time or another used one of his metal detectors . |
| 27 | Simply put , this replaces one of the springs in the rear cavity with an adjustable ‘ piston ’ which is set to return the tremolo more accurately to its standing position , hence keeping the instrument 's tuning more stable . |
| 28 | Such behaviour is described by where the retardation time τ R provides a measure of the time required for E 2 and η 2 to reach 0.632 of their total deformation . |
| 29 | Another stirred one of two glasses of beans with his finger for tiv ( he had added and subtracted appropriately in response to more and less ) . |
| 30 | It takes the French to tackle one of the planet 's least hospitable regions in one of man 's most loveable motors . |