Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [noun pl] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important debate in my opinion that we shall have this Committee stage and it is for that reason and also because for four-and-a-half years which I think is regarded as a very long time , I was answerable for police affairs er with the Home Secretary in another place , as the Noble Lord , Lord Callaghan will remember , many years ago , it goes back to January nineteen fifty-eight when I became Under Secretary and he was political advisor to the Police Federation and we very rarely disagreed I 'm happy to say . |
| 2 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 3 | Tension in the ambulance dispute was heightened as management in London published a list of 999 calls which it claimed had not been answered . |
| 4 | Ambulance services were hit in many areas , but the dispute remained centred on London , where management published a list of 999 calls which it said were not being answered . |
| 5 | Tension in the ambulance dispute was heightened as management in London published a list of 999 calls which it claimed had not been answered . |
| 6 | This will be ok the exam or paper will consist of six questions which you will do in two hours , er not all six of course . |
| 7 | When the line-up was finalised with Charman in the spring of 1985 , they already had a set of six songs which they rehearsed repeatedly . |
| 8 | The State Administration for Environmental Protection has made public the names of 3,000 businesses which it says are responsible for the lion 's share of China 's industrial pollution . |
| 9 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 10 | At 11.30 a.m. on 9 February 1839 , north of the Ross Sea , he sighted land in latitude 66–7° S , longitude 162–3° E. This was a group of five islands which he called the Balleny Islands . |
| 11 | Signor Datrino has secured the loan from the Kremlin of 104 treasures which he will be exhibiting at the Castello from 4 April for three months . |
| 12 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 13 | Pinochet Hiriart stated in his testimony to the committee in mid-January that the money , apparently used to buy out his share in a small bankrupt arms manufacturing company , was in fact a payment for three loans which he had personally secured in Europe for the company . |
| 14 | It 's worth three times what he gave me for it . ’ |
| 15 | In the European Parliament for example we do have a nursery we have child-care facilities for seventy children which you do n't have in the House of Commons . |
| 16 | Recently I sold a number of ‘ profit share ’ shares and found myself left with six shares which I had received as a dividend . |
| 17 | We divided the material into six programmes which we then had to clear with the Cabinet Office under an agreement that had been made with the Broadlands Archives Trust . |
| 18 | Er when we last did the work there in nineteen eighty nine he 'd , he 'd provided Gwyneth with three machines which they moved round and put on different places for us . |
| 19 | This would amount to £216 3s as the value of a florin at this period was 3/ , this sum with 25 marks which he paid to the Pope for his consent was about one years income of this bishopric . |
| 20 | Because we did n't know where in the brain any changes might occur , or very much about chick brain anatomy ( nor , it should be said , did anyone else at the time ) , we divided the forebrain arbitrarily into two regions which we called simply ‘ roof ’ and ‘ base ’ . |
| 21 | A big birthday cake came out for Sandra with eighteen candles which she ceremoniously blew out . |
| 22 | I 'll engage to pull down in three hours what you 'll be building up in as many years , in spite of all the lessons you can teach her . |
| 23 | Erm but that 's if you just progr project forward where we are cos we used up in , in three months what we should have done for the whole year so you 've only got ta do that , so we 've done a hundred thousand pounds this first quarter and if you 've four more , three more quarters there 's another three hundred thousand pounds over budget . |
| 24 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |
| 25 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 26 | The area of ground selected was described somewhat imprecisely as : ‘ All that piece of ground situate north of Fig Lane [ now Crowndale Road ] St Pancras extending northwards from thence 650 feet on average abutting Eastwards on the Church path leading to Kentish Town and is in a parallel breadth 270 feet abutting Westward on other Ground intended and agreed to be used as Garden Ground by the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy or the Undertenants and no buildings to be erected thereon which shall raise more than 12 feet above the present surface and nearer than 80 feet to the ground hereby lett and that they will reserve a Street or way 60 feet wide at the least at the northern extremity of the said ground and that the said Messrs. Kirkman and Hendy do engage to lett to the Veterinary College a piece or any part of their ground at any time within twelve months which they the College shall determine upon a ranging line with the north extremity of the piece already described at and after the rate of £30 per acre nett which are the same terms as the ground described and mentioned are lett at and also at and upon the same reservation of the pepper corn Rent . ’ |
| 27 | The difficulties for the argument derive from two assumptions which it makes , ( a ) about separability and ( b ) about understanding . |
| 28 | The iron was in two parts which you could screw together . |
| 29 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 30 | This was then attached in turn to five ropes which he pulled up and fastened to the pole . |