Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [prep] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See those are cheap sets we can probably buy them for about twelve quid apiece could n't we ? |
| 2 | So in order to produce 2400 kcals of chemical energy in the form of organic molecules , you would need anything from about 40 to 100 or more square metres of land in Britain , and somewhat less than this in the USA . |
| 3 | If you do live in the same house as your landlord and he or she wants you to leave the property then he or she must still give you at least four weeks Notice to Quit on a special form . |
| 4 | Should I collect you at about eleven , then ? |
| 5 | Okay there might be in all sorts of ways , in terms of equality , in terms of socialism , it 's , it 's all a bit dubious erm but the other reason for taxing down is that , let's face it , the majority of peasants as we , as we saw last week are still poor and if the Communist Party is wanting to maximize its revenue , if it was gon na say okay we 're not gon na tax anybody at under six or eight hundred erm you , you 're gon na take out er half the population and you would have to get that income by taxing the rich even harder and that would be a disincentive . |
| 6 | She said when you came and I rang to confirm it all she said you 're very lucky because he agreed thirteen pounds and we do n't do it for under fifteen pounds now . |
| 7 | Oxfam has launched its new autumn collection of clothes with the boast that the fashion-conscious can dress themselves for just twenty five pounds ! |
| 8 | Before we se now hopefully it should bring us to about four o'clock . |
| 9 | Apart from the fact that Asiatic birth rates flourish and will continue to flourish , that the population of Russia may double itself to over 320000000 before decline begins , there is evidence of resistance [ to a declining birth rate ] in Germany and Raly . ’ |
| 10 | NATO will now restrict itself to only one nuclear system , as opposed to the Soviet Union — or Russia now — with three , and we in NATO can point to the fact that we will soon have about one tenth the number of nuclear warheads that we had 10 years ago . |
| 11 | they 're saying that their fixing figures by not putting people on the waiting list so the waiting lists are shorter , because they 're putting , not , they 're saying that to people we ca n't treat you for about two years so I 'm not going to put you on the list at the moment , so they 're , cooking the books , that 's what they reckon |
| 12 | I was very , very sorry , but I just left the letter around and did n't see him for about three years . |
| 13 | Jones 's international commitments ( he departs for Australia 's three-Test tour of Sri Lanka in August ) will limit him to only four-fifths of the county season with Durham , but Graveney added : ‘ His attitude to this situation is brilliant . |
| 14 | It seems that it might take a great deal of commitment and determination to drag yourself out in the pouring rain or snow , until you think about how much you miss your husband when you can not even touch him for nearly two weeks . |
| 15 | That er , if built , would provide us with about ten percent of our electricity at current rates of use . |
| 16 | well my wife 's in the rag trade and this morning she 's got er , a fashion show starting , and I 'll bet you , I do n't know this , but I 'll bet you at least two of her manufacturers will have sent her samples to put in that show which probably will arrive at nine o'clock this morning . |
| 17 | It 's gon na cost him at least fifteen quid for me to wipe it off . |
| 18 | There are lots of theatres , also especially in the ‘ West End ’ , tickets can cost anything from around ten to fifty pounds , even more some-times . |
| 19 | Danie Visser took the opportunity of his selection to South Africa 's first Davis Cup team to be announced since 1978 , to protest that they have been placed in the bottom Group , so that it will take them at least three years to qualify for the World Group . |
| 20 | Going to South America , it would take you at least thirty-six hours to get to Lima , for example , in some clapped-out old aircraft . |
| 21 | It was a decision that left one Irish player saying : ‘ Can we have him for just 20 minutes ? |
| 22 | Boat-haling demanded enormous cooperative effort and trips down the river to London could take anything from nearly two to eight weeks when drought , flood , frost or wind made the going difficult or impossible . |
| 23 | ( An understandable state , since he is described as having ‘ led the way ’ for Robert Frost — whose revered poetry is misquoted — which would make him at least 110 ) . |
| 24 | It would leave them with just three more qualifiers to close the series and all of them to be played in Ireland against Lithuania in September , Spain in October and Northern Ireland , in Belfast , in November . |
| 25 | In this way one can simplify the number of subproblems considerably and one can group them into about eight stages , each of which has about six sub-problems , and this becomes humanly comprehensible . |
| 26 | We shall content ourselves with just two examples . |
| 27 | A mate of mine he says he wo n't tell you for about three or four years . |
| 28 | they must tell you at least 21 days before they plan to take maternity leave . |
| 29 | Multi-processors seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment and IBM Corp has been promising a multi-processing addition to its RS/6000 line for some time , so it 's not too surprising that we hear it 'll announce one in around six weeks for delivery later in the year . |
| 30 | A moment 's fear smote her then that he might leave it at just one kiss , and with more daring than she had known she possessed she leaned her lightly clad body against him . |