Example sentences of "[adv] [num] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 2 | POLICE are aiming to track down 30 athletes who hurdled over closed barriers at a railway level-crossing moments before a train hurtled through . |
| 3 | Police have managed to track down 30 people who were in the town centre when the attack occurred , but admit witnesses are proving difficult to find . |
| 4 | There were , it seems , only fifty-three competitors who entered all three parts of the competition , and only twenty-one of all the submissions came from foreign architects . |
| 5 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 6 | I understand there 's only three people who are from the same team as last year . |
| 7 | Cumberworth township had 89 weavers , 6 clothiers , 3 cutters and 11 tradesmen , and only 31 men who were not involved in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 8 | Woods was one of only five men who played in test matches for both Australia and England . |
| 9 | But I like learning new things and seeing new places , so one day who knows what I might do ! ’ |
| 10 | Ellis managed to track down one contemporary who described him as , quote , a horrible little shit who thought he was Napoleon , unquote . |
| 11 | Next to Churchill there was only one man whom Mrs Robson apparently favoured , and that was Sir Arthur Harris , because was n't he sending bombers over by the thousand to knock hell out of them over there ? |
| 12 | ‘ My children , there is only one man who can be considered ; a proved man , a trained soldier , brave , strong , sharp of mind . |
| 13 | There seemed only one man who could , and that was Bonar Law , his fragile health somewhat improved as a result of eighteen months out of the Government , and his loyalty to Lloyd George and Austen Chamberlain weakened by the same cause . |
| 14 | Only one patient who had been receiving NSAIDs was still anaemic and that was a man with rheumatoid arthritis whose haemoglobin concentration was 12.7 g/dl . |
| 15 | Some later work focused on modelling variations in speech patterns , but the computers still could be used by only one person who ‘ trained ’ by saying each word five or 10 times . |
| 16 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 17 | But there was only one person who Lennox really wanted alongside him in this moment of victory — Violet . |
| 18 | He squats down in front of me , face level with mine : ‘ There is only one person who knows the answer to that , precious boy . |
| 19 | There is only one person who knows what was in your heart of hearts , James . |
| 20 | There is only one person who can make that happen — and that is you . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's only one person who can answer this . ’ |
| 22 | There was only one person who would really understand , because he was going through exactly the same . |
| 23 | Koirala announced a new Cabinet on May 29 which included one woman ( Sailja Acharya ) and only one person who not been elected as a member of the House of Representatives ( Basu Dev Risal ) . |
| 24 | Well , Mr Chairman , I think er , you know , it 's all right putting forward a budget like this , but there 's only one person who got paid for it , and that 's the general public . |
| 25 | He had been dimly aware of the sound of an approaching car , and there was only one person who would have bothered to seek him out . |
| 26 | Right , there 's only one , there 's only one person who 's gon na know this , this question , |
| 27 | Alternatively , in organisations where such postings are advertised internally , there may be only one candidate who comes forward for selection . |
| 28 | It is the fact that there is only one Commissioner who operates in a narrow area of disputes that is difficult to condone . |
| 29 | Only one subject who had received 6.25 µg cholera toxin observed no increase in stool frequency , however , in this case only decreased absorption and not secretion was observed in the test segment . |
| 30 | There is only one student-name who takes module 2c . |