Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [verb] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a free three year Maintenance Plan , where you are given next day on-site support with the option of claiming £50.00 compensation per day should Ti'Ko fail to meet this obligation . |
| 2 | Coventry v Arsenal Arsenal return to one of the few grounds where they were beaten last season , with their match winner against Manchester United , Groves , likely to partner Smith up front again . |
| 3 | He also plans to return to Milan 's La Scala opera house where he was jeered last December for missing a note during a performance of Verdi 's ‘ Don Carlos . ’ |
| 4 | You knew before you shut your door in my face last night that I was having second thoughts ! ’ |
| 5 | Now , my theory that I was proposing last week about preferential parental investment in sexy sons or little boys who showed phallic behaviour , is a consequence of the Trivers Willard principle , because basically what it says is that little boys who advertised , as it were , in their childhood , evidence of their own adult reproductive success by precocious sexuality towards the women of the family and aggression towards the males , might be rewarded by preferential parental investment , a Trivers Willard effect in other words , and if , when they grew up , those oedipal sexy sons were in fact more reproductively successful , then the result would be a kind of self-perpetuating cycle of parental investment in oedipal sons who then grew up to be more reproductively successful than non-oedipal sons and , and so on . |
| 6 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 7 | Take some pills that you were given last night . |
| 8 | It did not escape my notice , however , that you were accompanied last night by a rather large , rather muddy man who , I gathered from hints dropped from various quarters , had been your escort that evening . |
| 9 | That we were watching last night . |
| 10 | You may remember that we were talking last autumn about gas prices hopefully continuing to rise natural gas by to rise during the rest of the year and in fact that did take place and it did have some impact on the domestic rig count in the United States which went up quite strongly in the last part of the year . |
| 11 | Dan man you 've got th Dan you know the tape that we were recording last night , you 've got ta hear it yeah there 's this bit , yeah , where erm Alex just walks off yeah with the Walkman yeah and he goes into the toilet |
| 12 | Although it was announced last November that the awards would be down to 1.5 per cent , that did not stop politicians and union leaders from condemning the Government 's action . |
| 13 | I think in fact it 's a bit of a cheek for the Chief Constable to go to the Home Secretary here ev , Home Secretary again this year , asking for more officers , when he has n't recruited all the ones that he was given last year . |
| 14 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 15 | Erica and Edward had their usual disagreement , and Edward announced that he was leaving next day on more unspecified scientific business . |
| 16 | I 've found it difficult to work , have n't made any friends and I am dreading next year . |
| 17 | People going and collecting and I 'm hoping first prize winner 's there . |
| 18 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 19 | I kept in touch after that , obviously , and continued to badger him and send him new material until I was signed last August . |
| 20 | Oh , oh , it 's already 10 am and nobody 's posted last night 's result . |
| 21 | Devoy , champion seven times in succession until she was beaten last year , meets England 's Martine Le Moignan in the final . |
| 22 | Well his sister 's erm a social worker as well in Manchester and she was going next week to spend a year in Romania |
| 23 | That 's why I asked if you were babysitting last night . |
| 24 | So they traded them just as we traded with the wool and we 're talking twelfth century thirteenth century , fourteenth century . |
| 25 | and we were saying last year we could of done with having him for a bit |
| 26 | and we were informed last week that |
| 27 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 28 | SERC decided earlier last year to cut its budget for neutron sources by £5m and it was announced last November that the government would be renegotiating its contribution to the neutron source at the Institut Laue-Langevin ( ILL ) in Grenoble , France . |
| 29 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 30 | Mr Edwards tells me : ‘ That relates to an old bill and it was settled last September . ’ |