Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The er Wi Witham second eleven I 'm still gon na , gon na keep that one in .
2 Power up front will be former Dublin & South Eastern locomotive 461 which is now kept at Mullingar , pulling the society 's 1950 's style carriages with their distinctive green livery of that period complete with C.I.E .
3 Comparing the average profiles brings out the stark contrast in the slopes of the two curves after the age of 30 which is partially explained by career interruption at marriage .
4 Mr Tholen , who retires at the end of this month as chairman of Darlington Health Authority , is a dapper man of 67 who is never seen without a carnation in his lapel except , he says , when he is shooting or flying .
5 By the age of 30 she was still maintained on home total parenteral nutrition , and continued to vomit fluid .
6 He retired as Young Cricketers administrator in 1990. he was also connected with ?
7 By an extended tour in 1780–2 he had become known as a pianist in Paris , Strasburg , Munich , and Vienna , and in 1802 he was enthusiastically received in St Petersburg .
8 On Nov. 12 he was effectively dethroned with the election of his eldest son as King Letsie III by an assembly of chiefs [ see p. 37843 ] .
9 He was named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , attending no less than fourteen of its sittings , including the occasion on which judgment was given against the king ; he did not , however , sign the death warrant , although there is no corroborative evidence for the statement that he positively refused to do so , and in 1660–1 he was clearly regarded — albeit posthumously — as having been a regicide .
10 After the old maypole was taken down in October 1985 it was sadly missed , especially when the ex-president of the maypole committee , Amos Clapham ( of coal race fame ) , died .
11 Frederick 's patronage and admiration for his work persuaded the artist to travel to London , where , in 1728 he was duly rewarded with an official appointment as portrait painter to the prince .
12 In 1947–8 he was chief of staff , Western Command ; in 1949–50 he was again employed , briefly , on secret planning ; and he retired in 1951 .
13 This was backed up by the famous John Peel Festive Fifty which was embarrassingly dominated by the band .
14 These refer to the Argos catalogue , a big hit with the under-5s I 'm reliably informed .
15 The Black Prince was to march from Bordeaux into the north-central areas of the country ; Henry , duke of Lancaster , planned to attack from Normandy ; while Edward III himself was also to come from the north .
16 The son of a Jat farmer outside Delhi , by the age of thirteen she was already refusing to work in the fields , saying that she felt more like a woman than a man .
17 If she was aware of the situation as it was on the morning of 18 October 1963 she was possibly mistaken in her action .
18 Three days later 100 paramilitary carabinieri were sent to the island , to join another 100 who were already providing protection for the 5,000 troops ( largely conscripts ) who since July 21 had been stationed there , ostensibly for training exercises .
19 According to an official working group , in 1996 there were 333 prisoners whose condition warranted detention in psychiatric hospital rather than imprisonment , and a grand total of 1,497 who were mentally disturbed ( Home Office and DHSS , 1997 : 9 , 27 ) .
20 They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually .
21 In May 1819 he was unanimously chosen as a member of the board of examiners of the Veterinary College , succeeding Cline .
22 On Nov. 7 it was widely reported that Nigerian Alpha jets had bombed NPFL positions in the Monrovia suburbs of Gardnersville , Mount Barclay and Stockton Creek the previous day , and had also attacked areas close to the rebel headquarters at Gbarnga , 160 km north of Monrovia on Nov. 5 .
23 In an interview with Mark Paytress in 1988 Leonard stated that by the age of six he was already acquainted with rudimentary Judaism and recalled being deeply touched by the stirring language and imagery of the Bible - in English and Hebrew .
24 But whatever its humble origins , when the new word was picked up by the newspapers in August 1898 it was quickly transformed into a term of more general notoriety , so that ‘ Hooligan ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ became the controlling words to describe troublesome youths who had previously been known more loosely as ‘ street arabs ’ , ‘ ruffians ’ or ‘ roughs ’ .
25 In 1888 he was also awarded their Watt medal for his paper on ‘ Economy Trials of a Non-condensing Steam Engine ’ .
26 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land .
27 Those EIGHTs who are just beginning to read well now enjoy reading spontaneously .
28 In 1891 she was briefly engaged to Charles Morrison , a Scottish missionary teacher at Duke Town eighteen years her junior , but when the Mission Board refused to allow him to join her in Okoyong , the relationship was broken off .
29 Lot number one one three Lot number one one three I 'm now offering there we are , the brush pot there 's the brush pot showing for three hundred pounds at three hundred pounds at three twenty , three fifty , three eighty , four hundred , and twenty , four fifty , four eighty , five hundred and fifty five fifty , six hundred for you , sir six hundred , six twenty six fifty six hundred and fifty in the centre and selling for six eighty seven hundred and twenty seventy fifty seven eighty eight hundred and twenty eight fifty eight eighty nine hundred and twenty nine twenty is bid on the left , at nine twenty and selling for nine hundred and twenty thank you , sir , nine twenty and that 's for number eight four eight , thank you very much .
30 To determine the tissue type plasminogen activator activity in the regional blood of rat stomach , a 200 µl blood sample was collected from the gastric vein before and after the injection of endothelin-1 which was then transferred to a glass container containing 10 µl disodium citrate dihydrate ( 0.13 M ) .
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