Example sentences of "[adj] [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the 1983 election had been fought under a system of proportional representation instead of a Conservative landslide in the Commons , the Conservatives would have had roughly 285 seats ( and not 397 ) , Labour 180 and the Alliance 160 , resulting in a hung , three-party , parliament and a scramble to form a coalition . |
| 2 | For the record , John Browne 's polled 32,195 votes for the Tories in 1987 , Alliance candidate Jock Macdonald took 24,716 votes , Labour 4,028 and the Green party 565 . |
| 3 | Then I had to place my cock down on the glass , but the way this copier is designed — I disliked this copier , by the way , that place is too cheap to lease a decent brand of copier — the way it 's designed is that a normal eight and a half by eleven piece of paper is oriented sideways in the middle of the glass between two marks , you how that works , right ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So the problem then is that only a little sliver of the tip of my cock was going to make it in range of the footprint of a normal eight and a half by eleven copy . |
| 5 | In Poitiers are two churches in particular : S. Hilaire begun 1025 and rebuilt 1165 and the more famous Notre Dame La Grande ( 271 ) which dates from 1130 . |
| 6 | Nationally the Liberals have 143 women , Labour 138 and the Conservatives a distaff side of just 63 . |
| 7 | THE GREAT BRITISH EIGHT AND THE REST |
| 8 | It is four months before Stig is well enough to walk properly , and by then winter is over and the race has passed , with Odd-Knut making the top ten but no higher because of the loss . |
| 9 | In the XJS coupe , the result is a 10pc increase in power to 308bhp at 5350rpm , a 0–60mph time of 6.6 seconds rather than 7.8 with the old 5.3 and a spectacular top speed of 160mph with barely any loss in economy . |
| 10 | And his 59 League goals are still within our top five since the war , although all the others had rather longer Palace careers than he did . |
| 11 | Val Gardena often gives second-rank skiers a chance of top 15 because the sun pops out from behind the huge massif of Sassolungo and warms and quickens the piste . |
| 12 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 13 | The papers might talk about the swinging sixties but the nearest most girls of Maura 's age got to it was in the clothes they wore . |
| 14 | In the roaring Twenties , the swinging Sixties and the optimistic Eighties , so the theory goes , women bared their knees for joy . |
| 15 | During 1964 Crawford made The Knack … and how to get it , his first of three films with director Richard Lester , who had been a writer of The Goon Show on radio and had taken that brand of surrealism to film-making , using a new-wave style that reflected the mood of the Swinging Sixties and the idea that the world was being turned upside down . |
| 16 | There was a time in the Swinging Sixties when the Richmond Meet looked like an anachronism — an out-dated throwback to more genteel times that had long since passed . |
| 17 | Right , so if we multiply this by two , from the top two and the bottom , we 'll get twenty five over two hundred , then you can , if you want like to cancel that down , twenty five over two hundred , what would you , what would you cancel there ? |
| 18 | A success both in front of the box and on the critics ' pages CHANCER created a vogue out of a rogue — the identity of Stephen Crane ( Clive Owen 's role ) catching the attention of the country and reflecting the social changes in the early 90's as the enterprise culture began to take a tumble . |
| 19 | At stumps , Australia were 266-6 , a lead of 188 after their first-innings 293 and the West Indies ' 371 . |
| 20 | ( In the conversation we quote from , the speaker was a man in his early thirties and the children were living with his estranged wife , all inferences which had been drawn by A before B went on to explain that this was the case . ) |
| 21 | Below : Brown 's Eliminate , Froggatt — Jim Perrin climbing in the early 60s when the route was given VS . |
| 22 | Conditions were thus ripe by the height of the emancipation campaign in the late 1820s and early 1830s for the cheap and rapid production of vast quantities of antislavery material and for the expansion and relative cheapness — and consequent probable expansion in readership — of newspapers . |
| 23 | The London gold price rose two and a half times between early 1972 and the middle of 1973 . |
| 24 | A strategic decision was taken in the early 80s that the best way forward for the company was to concentrate on dry and semi-moist pet food markets . |
| 25 | Municipal sewage works have used such methods to treat sewage since the early 1900s and the biogas produced , which consists on average of 70 per cent methane and 30 per cent carbon dioxide ( Hawkes and Hawkes 1987 ) , can be used to power the digestion plant itself . |
| 26 | In early 1991 after the Australian Federal Court found the Tobacco Institute of Australia guilty of publishing misleading information about the health effects of passive smoking , Quit wrote to 175 000 organisations informing them of the decision and inviting them to participate in its workplace campaign . |
| 27 | The Council 's longstanding interest in the Scottish Steel Industry was given a higher priority by the decision of British Steel to close the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig in early 1991 and the indications were that the rest of Ravenscraig would cease operations in 1994 . |
| 28 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 29 | This awareness of im-pending disaster was exacerbated in the early seventies when a slump occurred in the property market . |
| 30 | The other pilots all attacked the remaining three and a multiplicity of claims were made , Plt.Off . |