Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only member of the squad who could ; the others hammered or pecked with two fingers , swore picturesquely , and reached for the erasing fluid . |
| 2 | The second rotary pot marked ‘ Vernier ’ allows the frequency of the note to be raised or lowered from A-440 concert pitch . |
| 3 | That great insight — lost or rejected throughout 2000 years of western history , save for its occasional stirring in the minds of rare individuals uncrippled by centuries of projected dogma — became the touchstone of eastern philosophy . |
| 4 | Thus , making use of the abbreviation dB for decibel , when , for example , the power is said to be modified by and when , the modification of power is described as An alternative expression of the power change in these two cases would be that the power is reduced or attenuated by +20 dB and +6 dB respectively . |
| 5 | The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head . |
| 6 | Ben Gunn got a thousand pounds which he spent or lost in three weeks , then he came begging and was given a job as a gatekeeper . |
| 7 | Each of the PCR products was sequenced either directly with specific oligonucleotides as sequencing primers using 32 P-dATP or subcloned into pCR-1000 vector ( Invitrogen ) and the plasmid DNA containing the different inserts from each of the PCR analysis were sequenced using M13 forward and reverse primers or specific primers as described above . |
| 8 | The first of France 's war pilots flew in Blériots that cruised at fifty m.p.h. and took an hour and a half to climb to 6,000 feet . |
| 9 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 10 | Hindus have long fled the rural parts of Punjab ; now some Sikhs are joining the exodus , disgusted by terrorist excesses that led to 3,787 deaths last year and about 1,500 so far this year . |
| 11 | Indeed , during almost a thousand years the only important legislation concerning English highways was a statute dating from the reign of Edward I. It required lords of manors to supervise the felling of trees and undergrowth up to 200ft on both sides of any ‘ highway ’ that led from one market town to another . |
| 12 | The $400m settlement , which will be split between the RTC and the FDIC , took eight months to negotiate and resolves all outstanding claims relating to thrifts that failed before 25 September 1992 . |
| 13 | In the case of oil , for example , the raw material was in one republic , the petrochemical plants were in another , the scientific research was conducted in a third and the extracting equipment was in a fourth ; and who owned the pipelines that passed from one republic to another ? |
| 14 | AGE-SPECIFIC RATES — The frequency of demographic events ( live births , deaths , marriages , etc. ) that occurred during one year in a population defined by age ( usually one or five-year age groups ) and also often by sex relative to the size of population of the given age or age group ( and sex ) relative to the mid-year size of the same population ( expressed per 1,000 population ) . |
| 15 | It is a massive con trick — Or will Labour go back to very large Government borrowing , on the scale that occurred in one year under the last Labour Government , of 9.5 per cent . |
| 16 | In Hungary , for example , during 1967–1968 , the proportion " premature " ( i.e. under 2,500 grammes birth weight ) was higher among births that occurred within two years after the previous one . |
| 17 | The WFS data confirm earlier findings for developed countries that an infant is least likely to survive one year if its birth followed or preceded one that occurred within 24 months of its own ( Maine and McNamara , 1985 ; Acsadi and Johnson-Acsadi , 1985a , 1985b ; Maine , et al , 1985 ; Rutstein , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 18 | And she had also begun to observe what a miracle the whole Hochhauser Operetta Company was — a miracle that stemmed from two people . |
| 19 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 20 | Henderson did get a little help from his friends , in particular a massive 484ft third-inning home run from Jose Canseco on Saturday that came within 13 rows of hitting the roof of the SkyDome but dropped instead into the hands of a surprised Toronto fan . |
| 21 | A good effect , especially if a mildly bizarre or impertinent characterization is required , is that obtained from two clarinets at two octaves distance , one in its upper register and the other in its chalumeau , and if an oboe is added in the middle octave the reediness is much enhanced and the penetrating power of the combination greatly increased . |
| 22 | During the five-day application period that began on 1 December , only 5,700 young people applied for 8,600 postgraduate places available in Beijing . |
| 23 | American policy was already characterised by the traits that existed to 25 June 1950 : it was felt to be undesirable that the Soviet Union should incorporate Korea within her sphere of interest yet there was little inclination in Washington to commit the United States deeply to supporting whatever kind of government emerged in the south . |
| 24 | Under the transitional provisions , where , on 9 March 1992 , employer-related investments that existed on 17 February 1992 exceeded the 5% limit , the fund in question may be required to reduce its net investment in the lease to a level not exceeding 5% of its resources on the earliest date on which payment can be enforced ( assuming the agreement was effected prior to 17 February 1992 ) . |
| 25 | Brown and McCoist were next to threaten the Belgian goal in a game that swung from one end to the other . |
| 26 | A SUSSEX businessman is threatening to sue National Westminster Bank over a reference it provided about a company that collapsed within four weeks of him supplying games worth more than £7,000 . |
| 27 | Instead of terrible , death-dealing , curling wave , you said quite simply kakala ; a high wave , formed by the meeting of two crests , was huia ; lauloa was a long wave that broke from one end of the beach to the other ; a calm , unbreaking wave was known as opu'u . |
| 28 | To stick to the motor car analogy , the design of cars has improved more rapidly because a designer can incorporate in a single design a synchromesh gearbox that originated in one model with fuel injection that originated in another . |
| 29 | This Act ‘ created a local government system that persisted for 45 years , until reorganisation in 1975 ’ ( Page 1983:43 ) . |
| 30 | During the 20th century , anorexia nervosa was ascribed a psychological cause by other physicians ( eg , Charcot , Dubois , Fenwick , Janet ) but then became confused with pituitary insufficiency in 1914 by Simmonds , leading to a controversy that persisted for 30 years . |