Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [num] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OD1 has less distortion to it than OD2 but even for that channel the gain preset of 4 is well down , so I kick it right up to 20 ( the upper limit of both gain and volume ) and things begin to sound a little more like it . |
| 2 | Prepare a computer schedule for a typical working day when the systems described in 5.2.5 are available to Oxford University Press . |
| 3 | So the precise significance of what occurred in 787 is ambiguous . |
| 4 | Thus all land , however tied up it may be by complex entails and other interests , has since 1882 been alienable by the tenant for life under his statutory powers . |
| 5 | However , it has not officially been published for the last couple of years and the figures shown for 1986/87 are unofficial ones culled from the published NHS annual accounts ( DHSS , 1988 ) . |
| 6 | Yet at the same time his work began to display doubts and uncertainty : the oils produced in 1949 are uneven , their coarseness at times less deliberate than despairing . |
| 7 | Precisely how many were ejected in 1662 is unknown but possibly a third of the ministers became ‘ Nonconformists ’ or ‘ Dissenters ’ . |
| 8 | To try to suggest that the senior chief inspector agreed to 175 is preposterous . |
| 9 | According to the leaflet , testing at seven is harmful and impractical . |
| 10 | One further feature offered by 1-2-3 is cross-platform compatibility . |
| 11 | It was n't just the major record companies that found themselves unable to cope with '89 's burgeoning Rave scene . |
| 12 | It is also significant that the appearance of blockages from both directions at 5'-GC ( 37 of UV5 ) observed for 1 is missing ( 102 of N25 ) in the tethered complexes . |
| 13 | This concentration of the opposition vote began in 1992 's general election . |
| 14 | He probably went to England in 1709 , though his life before his publishing career began in 1734 is obscure . |
| 15 | Hence the cars , the holiday trips , the barbecues , the pets — I remember in 1959 being amazed to discover how many people in the suburbs of Washington were keeping pet chimpanzees ! |
| 16 | Using the name DJ Ox he would play anywhere and everywhere , inspired by 1980 's ground-breaking ‘ Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel ’ . |
| 17 | Seems like I been dead to the world for weeks ! |
| 18 | In any learning task , the proportion of cells in each chip which should be set to 1 is likely to be independent of the number of cells in the chip ; so the number of learning cycles will be roughly proportional to the size of a chip . |
| 19 | For example , as educational research has found , the child who can not read at eight is unlikely ever to learn , and that eight is the latest age at which a child can function in school as an illiterate . |
| 20 | Hit for Six is full of statistical detail , but the number is still second to the moment and a fascination with the really big hit , the occasions when , as Mike Gatting told him : ‘ Something happens magically and the ball goes for miles , and you have no idea why or how . ’ |
| 21 | He did acquire Savoy and Nice , but he lost control of events in the peninsula , so that the Italian Kingdom which emerged in 1861 was far from being the entity he had originally envisaged . |
| 22 | Even so , London English is used as well , for example by the British-born Brenda at line 6 , responding to M 's London-accented Creole turn at line 1 : |
| 23 | Eventually , the Tory ministry elected after 1710 was able to secure peace with the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713 . |
| 24 | Clinical trials showed that high intravenous does of interleukin-2 were effective in causing the regression of some tumours . |
| 25 | I think what they said in 1892 is true today … the population of Richmond , which is now about 8,500 , increases fourfold . ’ |
| 26 | Among the new products we launched in 1992 were low toxicity , biodegradable additives for use in offshore , water-based drilling muds , and Prozone , used in cleaning printed circuit boards . |
| 27 | The director of Ibercorp , Manuel de la Concha , had since 1965 been responsible for handling Rubio 's personal investments , worth some 12,000,000 ptas ( US$115,000 ) . |
| 28 | Goldin was a senior vice-president of TRW , a major US defence concern , and had since 1987 been general manager of its space and technology division . |
| 29 | Swegen , probably Cnut 's eldest son , had since 1030 been ruling Norway with his mother Ælfgifu of Northampton . |
| 30 | ‘ To begin with I was distressed to find that I could n't extract more than ten words from Dowayos at a stretch … |