Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [prep] [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 2 | The Remmelink Commission , set up in January 1990 , published its conclusions on Sept. 10 , 1991 , calculating that in the Netherlands there were annually some 2,700 cases of euthanasia or assisting the death of patients , and some 1,000 cases of intervention to terminate the life of patients unable to express their wishes . |
| 3 | He averages 70 covers on weekdays and doubles that number on weekends . |
| 4 | The fire service will use Alpha House and the 2.4 acres of ground that come with it for practical and theoretical training courses . |
| 5 | The pattern consisted of repetitive peristaltic contractions in the body of the oesophagus not related to swallowing and occurring at a rhythm of four to eight contractions per minute and lasting for periods of two to eight minutes . |
| 6 | Participants listened to the story read at an even pace of around 120 words per minute and had to write down all the errors they could detect as they heard them or insert the missing word . |
| 7 | These documents were all at least 500 words in length and had NOT been used in the compilation of any dictionary . |
| 8 | The gallant Lanc had flown over 800 hours on operations and had dropped around 500 tons of bombs , as well as many more flying hours on air tests and cross-countries . |
| 9 | The mixtures were incubated for 30 minutes at 25°C and centrifuged for 10 minutes . |
| 10 | After washing and filtration , the nuclei were stained in propidium iodide solution ( 50 µg/ml ) containing RNAase ( 1 mg/ml ) for 30 minutes at 4°C and analysed in an EPICS CS flowcytometer ( Coulter Corporation ) . |
| 11 | By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day . |
| 12 | The boars are free to roam in around 30 acres of forest and have a fairly natural lifestyle . |
| 13 | Judge Angus Stroyan sentenced him to 12 months in jail and banned him from driving for two years . |
| 14 | Mr Boesky , who served 22 months in jail and paid a $100m fine to settle insider trading charges , told a court his request for $20,000 a week was ‘ embarrassing and painful ’ and he was ‘ humbled to come before this court ’ for ‘ interim financial support . ’ |
| 15 | It will rely on 1,500 consultants in 30 countries in groups that include Management Consulting for Business Transformation and Information Technology Strategy & Planning ; Functional Consulting for Application Development ; an Industrial Sector ; and Technology Consulting , IBM noted . |
| 16 | Guinness is now produced in 22 countries in Africa and sold in 37 , accounting for roughly 7 per cent of all beer sales in the continent ( excluding South Africa ) . |
| 17 | Later , on July 25 , Blix said that three inspection teams had so far visited more than 30 sites in Iraq and had taken over 300 samples of nuclear material , but that " there are many more things to answer " . |
| 18 | He did 129 mph in Switzerland and captured the world land-speed record . ’ |
| 19 | The firm claims its sold 390 licences since March and has another 250 in test sites . |
| 20 | The firm claims it 's sold 390 licences since March and has another 250 copies in test sites . |
| 21 | ‘ It comes down to applying a judgement based on the background knowledge we 've acquired from 30 years of monitoring and reporting human rights ’ . |
| 22 | " Liberal " in the broad sense , including most of the scientists , thinkers and poets of the day , tended to be linked in people 's minds with the excesses of the French Revolution and the nearly 30 years of war that followed it . |
| 23 | ‘ 6-month-old children ’ were eligible if they were between 24 and 30 weeks of age and had been immunised with OPV as above . |
| 24 | To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time . |
| 25 | ‘ When it came down to it , ’ Larry said , ‘ they decided to give up their 167 years of independence and join us — to become a part of the franchise we want to build in Massachusetts . ’ |
| 26 | We therefore solve LP6 by pivoting in the x 2 -row of P1*/LP3 and find an optimal tableau with integer BFS ( x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ) = ( 3 , 1 , 1 ) and objective function value 20 . |
| 27 | Soldiers herded 50,000 Hindus onto buses and trains out of Ayodhya , where the violence was sparked by the destruction of a Moslem mosque . |
| 28 | Wash and peel 2 mushrooms per person and cut the stalks across level with the caps ( this helps prevent shrinkage ) . |
| 29 | It was opened in 1951 , by which time the men had moved 400 tons of rubble , 154 tons of gravel and laid 44,000 bricks . |
| 30 | Amplified DNA fragments were digested with HphI restriction endonuclease for 2 h at 37°C and electrophoresed on 12% polyacrylamide gels . |