Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Single parent Keith , from Stockport , was unconscious for 30 minutes and is now undergoing tests .
2 Don Charlwood survived 30 ops and is well qualified to bring their stories together .
3 It has a short half-life of five to 10 minutes and is normally degraded locally by lymphocytes ; if excess interleukin-2 reaches the bloodstream , however , it is rapidly cleared from the body by the kidneys .
4 It has flourished for well over 100 years and is always held on the first weekend in July .
5 It has burned down three times and is today known as Her Majesty 's .
6 Hendry , a winner of nine titles last season , has yet to break his duck in the opening seven tournaments of the 1992-93 campaign and is clearly struggling for confidence .
7 The allowance is paid in full for three years and is then reduced progressively by 12½ per cent per annum of the original difference over the subsequent seven years .
8 Most of this happens in three dimensions and is best seen from this canal as roads snake through the air in all directions .
9 It sold 100,000 copies and is still selling , 1,400 last week . ’
10 The list consists of fourteen packages and is evenly split between the IBM PC-compatible and the Macintosh platforms .
11 AIDS affects over 160 countries and is now taking an increasingly heavy toll .
12 Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England .
13 As a member of the Norfolk training branch she held office as Treasurer for ten years and is currently branch Secretary .
14 This plutonium has a high proportion of plutonium 239 isotope and is normally considered weapons-grade .
15 One study that is often quoted by ‘ opponents ’ of food intolerance was carried out by Dr David Pearson of Manchester University and Dr Keith Rix of Leeds University .
16 Research by the American Food and Drug Administration suggests that one chemical that is often found in B15 tablets , dimethyl glycine , may cause genetic damage to cells .
17 The decision to proceed alone is based on the success of the prototype 's flight test programme and strong customer interest , says Pilatus , which holds paid options on the first 27 aircraft and is now accepting only firm orders for the $1.8 million PC-12 , with performance and delivery schedule guarantees .
18 One issue that is particularly damaging is the decision by the Labour party that if it were in power it would tax British farmers and give the money to the farmers of Spain , Portugal and Greece .
19 Irouléguy is unique : it has given its name to the one wine that is still produced in the whole of the Basque country .
20 It seems despite the recession , this is one business that 's definitely taking off .
21 The one symptom that is invariably improved by restorative proctocolectomy is that of urgency .
22 After years of being cared for and protected in a human family , the elderly feline disappears one day and is then found dead in a corner of the garden shed next door , or in some even more secretive place .
23 Manson was , and remains to this day , America 's number one bogeyman and is regularly pilloried and looked on in fascination by a world that still ca n't believe such things happened .
24 However , one thing that is almost guaranteed is that if the things that you do do n't match up to the things that you say , your friends will soon point that out to you !
25 Terry B says he had some treatment and lots of help from friends … he goes to meetings every week and he 's enjoying life and taking one day at a time … he 's had one innings and is now enjoying his second
26 One approximation that is often used is to simplify the model by considering only N-grams .
27 Staining was seen in goblet cells in one of the coeliac patients but occurred in only one patient and is thus considered of no importance .
28 And when it is n't , one maxim that 's often used as a lie detector is the maxim that actions speak louder than words .
29 Perhaps there was a much larger population in the area than has previously been supposed , with more intensive or extensive use of the landscape by 2000 I–C than is generally assumed .
30 The government is to review the state pension age , but there is no one solution that is obviously favoured .
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