Example sentences of "[num] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In South Australia , Holden 's Motor Company at Elizabeth near Adelaide have since 1986 been introducing sophisticated manufacturing technology , as part of an Australian $350 million investment programme , and establishing ‘ family cells ’ — shop-floor groups who organize themselves and monitor their own production performance . |
| 2 | CHILDREN as young as eight are playing deadly ‘ chicken in the box ’ inches from train lines . |
| 3 | The chief functions of the short time-limit under Ord. 53 are to prevent public programmes from being unduly held up by litigation challenging the legality of such programmes ; and to prevent steps already taken in execution of challenged decisions having to be reversed long after the decision was acted upon . |
| 4 | The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person . |
| 5 | If control factors 1 and 2 are held constant the three-dimensional shape then developed in that part of their range can be drawn as in Figure 15.2 . |
| 6 | And ‘ that it was strongly recommended that Operation Majestic 12 be kept accountable only to the president of the United States ’ . |
| 7 | At least 1,653 people died , over 3,000 were seriously injured and some 110,000 were made homeless by a powerful earthquake , measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale , which struck the northern Philippines on July 16 . |
| 8 | p Values less than 0.05 were considered significant . |
| 9 | Probabilities less than 0.05 were considered significant . |
| 10 | If Δs 2 is zero , so that cΔt exactly equals Δr , then a light ray can travel from event P 1 to event P 2 and the interval P 1 P 2 is called light-like . |
| 11 | Option 2 is to do away with an existing ceiling-mounted light , and to use its power supply for your new wall lights . |
| 12 | He was a JP and DL of the county of Lincoln , and in 1881 was elected high sheriff of Bedfordshire . |
| 13 | The Final report ( Cmd. 6876 ) was published in July , dealing with various planning principles , including the question of size : a population of between 30,000 and 50,000 was thought desirable . |
| 14 | A-two tailed p value below 0.05 was considered significant . |
| 15 | A p value of less than 0.05 was considered significant . |
| 16 | A probability value of less than 0.05 was considered significant . |
| 17 | Quoted p values are two tailed and an α level of 0.05 was considered significant . |
| 18 | This lack of real parties during the period of Whig supremacy in 1714–60 was made possible by the lack during these years of real issues of principle around which opinion could crystallize and in terms of which politicians could arrange themselves . |
| 19 | He was educated in Glasgow , trained in the family business , and at the age of twenty-one was appointed general manager of the funeral department of the Glasgow Tramway & Omnibus Company . |
| 20 | Finally , notice that the curves shown in Figs 6.7 and 6.8 are labelled short-run inflation-unemployment curves . |
| 21 | Nineteen farms were visited of which thirteen were farmed full-time and six were farmed part-time . |
| 22 | Nineteen farms were visited of which thirteen were farmed full-time and six were farmed part-time . |
| 23 | The process of re-selection of MPs has forced fewer changes than might have been expected : only six were rejected prior to the 1987 election . |
| 24 | A decision by IBM Corp to collapse the work building storage systems for the AdStar unit in San Jose into just three plants from the present 10 is causing widespread concern across the IBM empire — and IBM Europe is simultaneously cutting an initial four plants loose to sink or swim , only one of which is directly affected by the AdStar decision . |
| 25 | ‘ A ’ Flight of 44 is getting ready to disband and to retire its fleet of Douglas C-54s and DC-4s . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , mourners at Mr Gallagher 's Requiem Mass in the Church of the Sacred Heart , heard a priest describe the ‘ shock and confusion ’ felt in the community when the father of six was shot dead in Belfast on Wednesday . |
| 27 | In a report to the UN Security Council on Sept. 21 , UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said that the " persistent failure " of the Khmers Rouges to abide by the Paris peace agreement of October 1991 was obstructing full implementation of the UN peace plan . |
| 28 | The Federation of Venezuelan Workers ( CTV ) had demanded a halt to large-scale redundancies in the public sector , and by February 1991 was predicting mass demonstrations and strikes if the government rejected its claim for a 45 per cent wage increase and for a minimum wage equivalent to $188 per month . |
| 29 | Its object in rerunning the debates of the 70s was to provoke bad industrial relations for the sake of the Tory party . |
| 30 | In 1962 Winchester became Brigadier I/C Administration in Cyprus , and in 1963 was appointed military author of doctrine in insurgency in the War Office . |