Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [num] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | We must count one or the other but not both . |
2 | ‘ That you should consider three and a half thousand pounds a lot of money ? ’ |
3 | You must choose one or the other . ’ |
4 | ‘ I would prefer , if he must marry one or the other , that he chose this Cora-Beth girl , ’ Alice said softly . |
5 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
6 | Solar water heating may contribute one and a half percent to our total fuel saving requirement , which is very small in itself . |
7 | No , you 'll need one or the other . |
8 | I 'd think four and a half . |
9 | If I did n't have so long to travel I 'd do two and a half hours . |
10 | Was he just waiting for her to return so he could choose one or the other of them ? |
11 | He looked around and within a radius of twenty yards , both on his side of the street and over there on the far corner , he could see ten or a dozen little girls , each in a pale dirty dress and with hair in a dark , tangled mane . |
12 | You would get a different sort of feel again by installing a big armoire or bureau bookcase if you could afford one or the other . |
13 | Mm have any quarters I mean you 'd get one and a bit . |
14 | About , you know , the horrible charges , and they were horribly badly charged , I mean , Lloyds Bank you reckon they could activate ten and a half percent in its first year to actually break even you know , because of the initial charges setting up fees , etcetera . |
15 | well the horse shoes you see , we used to we used to weld one and a half old horse shoes together in the fire to make one new one again . |
16 | If one took the distance as only one kilometre and we regard that as absolutely insufficient for a village of the character of Flaxton , we would prefer one and a half miles or two point four kilometres as the minimum . |
17 | Surely you would want one or the other , which is why this rackmount Ampeg looks like a good match for the Yamaha bass ; it has straightforward controls which are still exactly what you would want , and you can then modify the sound with the bass itself . |
18 | But I think I would do four and the green 's quite nice they do cos I 've got a white Christmas , you see |
19 | Yeah , what would multiply twelve and a half by if you wanted |
20 | For a closer indication of the Authority 's priorities , we have therefore incorporated the length of each course and the number of participating teachers into an index of teacher-days : for example , a three-day course for eight teachers would involve twenty-four teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) , while a half-day course for seventeen teachers would involve eight and a half teacher-days ( 3 × 8 = 24 ) . |
21 | However , there is evidence that Dune may be cannibalising Poison , which may require one or the other to be repositioned . |
22 | Since there is no other kind of bread , inevitably if I do as I have reason to and buy a loaf I will buy one or the other . |
23 | ( It will show 0 if no static ) . |
24 | " If they think they can discover the lost vein , or by driving a new level find a fresh one , they will do one or the other for their own advantage " . |
25 | The standard auditorium will hold 4,000 and the grand auditorium , 6,000 . |
26 | Then the rejection of a reading where ‘ him ’ is bound to the dog will cause CLE-1 and the reasoner to cycle through all of John , Bill , Fred , and the vet as candidate referents for ‘ he ’ before a change to the ‘ him ’ binding is considered . |
27 | The natural life of a hen is seven years , at the oldest , while a battery hen may last two and a half years . |
28 | Mr Verne-Smith paid me up till the end of April , so that 's seven weeks you owe me — let's say six and a half to be fair . ’ |
29 | ‘ If the weather is cooler later in the week , perhaps , we can do one or the other . |
30 | We can have one or the other but not both simultaneously . |