Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Push 70 needles at right to hold . |
| 2 | Push 30 needles at left to hold . |
| 3 | Altogether the reshuffle involved 12 officials at regional and national level . |
| 4 | Adams showed the authority and leadership you would expect from a defender who has won 17 caps at senior level but in World Cup terms the most significant performance came from Gascoigne , who cut out the asides and showed some of the tactical discipline he has to acquire if he is to make the most of his natural talent in international football . |
| 5 | I dined four times at various places and went to a drunk party at Worcester in someone 's rooms I did not know . |
| 6 | The next day , make six holes at equal intervals around the top edge of the blue cake drum to accommodate the candy canes . |
| 7 | Gen. ( retd ) Gustavo Leigh Guzmán , a former Air Force commander and member in 1973-78 of the military junta under Pinochet , was shot five times at close range by unidentified youths on March 21 in Santiago , and was taken to hospital in a critical condition . |
| 8 | Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May . |
| 9 | It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now . |
| 10 | Knit one row at main tension , one row at tension ten and latch off . |
| 11 | As the front curtain rose , the entire stage was blacked out by drapes which also concealed twelve doors at regular intervals . |
| 12 | It now employs 40 people at new offices developed by Liverpool firm Neptune on the Columbus Quay . |
| 13 | A round trip to Venus requires 1300 s at superior conjunction while the delay predicted with eqn ( 8.17 ) is only 220µs . |
| 14 | We would take 6 men at random from the 30 men , and 4 women at random from the 20 women . |
| 15 | Guinness is closing five distilleries at United Distillers in Scotland which will result in 700 redundancies . |
| 16 | Next knit one row at main stitch size with the lock set to N/N . |
| 17 | Moreover , as the two pairs of bonds define two planes at right angles to each other , one of the two b components is b 1 and the other b 2 , in the overall C 2v symmetry of the complex . |
| 18 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |
| 19 | Medlycott turns the ball the most while the dependable Neil Kendrick finished last season much more strongly , displacing Medlycott and taking 10 wickets at Old Trafford . |
| 20 | The 6ft 2in Cambridge hit-man took one look at Old Trafford , which could n't tempt Southampton 's Shearer , and decided : ‘ This is the place for me . ’ |
| 21 | Despite the injustice , he never lost sight of his love for football , winning two shields at inter-prison soccer matches . |
| 22 | I checked two items at random . |
| 23 | Fuel life : the large CV470 cartridge lasted three hours at maximum setting . |
| 24 | Using funds from a variety of sources — notably Scottish Homes , Historic Scotland , Edinburgh District Council and Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd — the Lister Co-operative has created 50 flats at affordable rents out of former dereliction . |
| 25 | Each sampled household is surveyed five times at quarterly intervals so that , every month , 1000 new households enter the study and 1000 households leave it . |
| 26 | IT IS probable that , unless your particular county was involved , you will not be able to say which county won the Refuge Assurance League of 1988 or 1990 , to take two years at random . |
| 27 | He subsequently had two partners at different times , the first the young W. S. Bright Maclaren , nephew of John Bright [ q.v. ] , the second his own younger brother Samuel . |
| 28 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 29 | And it was quite a career , capped 32 times at stand-off or centre , playing with distinction in two British Lions tours . |
| 30 | Illustrious career : McGeechan was capped 32 times at stand-off or centre and played with distinction in two British Lions tours |