Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All 49 subjects participated in this study after giving written informed consent . |
| 2 | The delay in 10 cities had in many instances allowed more time for local coalitions to be negotiated . |
| 3 | According to Sotheby 's , at least six bidders vied for this work to the $8 million level . |
| 4 | We three males looked at each other , then meekly trooped to the circular dining table laid out near the window . |
| 5 | The three children looked at each other . |
| 6 | Three lessons came from this raid : the need for means to identify friend from foe , always difficult in night actions but particularly so for a small party on a hostile shore ; the problems of coordinating secret operations with regular forces — friendly Spitfires had delayed the boats for an hour in mid-Channel on their outward voyage before establishing their true identity ; the difficulty of pin-point navigation , the third point , was the most crucial of all . |
| 7 | One thousand savages fell in that struggle , which is called today the Battle of Sloop 's Bight , after the first engagement in that cove , where a Christian ship , the Rebecca , was fired in a daring sortie . |
| 8 | Altogether teachers from 36 schools participated in these groups ; a member of the project team was assigned to each group and meetings were initially held once or twice a term . |
| 9 | Only 247 individuals appeared in both returns ; the local parish register records the burial of 61 people in the intervening period , but another 226 individuals disappeared from the local scene . |
| 10 | These results support the 100% eradication in the 13 patients reinvestigated in this study . |
| 11 | But it is unlikely that collective bargaining by farmworkers will be implemented since the Government has a minority in the Senate — with nine senators bequeathed by former president Pinochet . |
| 12 | Two blackbirds sang against each other across a territory boundary . |
| 13 | In the slightly embarrassed silence that lasted while the two groups stared at each other through the wire , there were occasional calls of recognition . |
| 14 | For about five seconds the two groups stood regarding each other . |
| 15 | In the second two pairs devoted to this relationship the same pattern emerges . |
| 16 | The two gentlemen looked at each other , then turned away from the house and walked on . |
| 17 | And it was as I was standing like that , in the shadows some distance from where the two gentlemen sat amidst those rows of empty chairs , that I heard Lord Darlington talk about Herr Bremann , his voice as calm and gentle as usual , somehow resounding with intensity around those great walls . |
| 18 | The two cars slammed into each other several times as they sped along a quiet tree-lined avenue before the youths finally forced her into a garden . |
| 19 | Two imperatives flowed from this perspective . |
| 20 | Unlike the November general election when the BJP and the Janata Dal ( the main component of the National Front ) had generally agreed on seat adjustments in the Congress heartlands , the two parties competed against each other in many of the February state elections , often creating a three-cornered contest . |
| 21 | They knew , for example , that in the Coniston Mines where a fault ran into a vein there might be a bunch , or a general enrichment , particularly if two veins ran into each other . |
| 22 | The version Cranko first appears in 1850 , but the two versions competed with each other at least until the end of the decade . |
| 23 | The reviewers of the 1807 Poems in Two Volumes disagreed with these principles . |
| 24 | This means a shed full of aquariums and two ponds interconnected with each other with a total water capacity of around 2000 gallons . |
| 25 | And four figures emerged from this preoccupation with sex , four objects of knowledge , four types of human subjects , subjected ; targets of and anchorages for the categories which were being simultaneously investigated and regulated : the hysterical woman , the masturbating child , the Malthusian couple , and the perverse adult . |
| 26 | But it was to burn again in the candlelit drawing-room where the two sisters sat opposite each other after supper in a warm red glow of port , firelight and reflections from the red velvet curtains drawn against night air . |
| 27 | Although that struggle brought about changes in the formal relationship between the press and politicians , it did not fundamentally alter the natural attraction that these two spheres had for each other . |
| 28 | The two mums smiled at each other as Stuart and Linda raced off down the aisle . |
| 29 | The two girls looked at each other , as if they were searching for the similarities . |
| 30 | The four girls looked at each other , puzzled . |