Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are learned patterns of behaviour that are transmitted from one generation to another . |
| 2 | Neurofilaments ( NFs ) are neuron-specific intermediate filaments that are composed of three proteins with apparent molecular weights of 68000 ( NF-L ) , 145000 ( NF-M ) , and 200000 ( NF-H ) as determined by SDS-gel electrophoresis ( for review , see 1 ) . |
| 3 | Parked outside the Polytechnic there were two small taxi-vans that are hired at ten copecks per kilometre . |
| 4 | In most cases the ribbon cable has the three connectors on it that are needed for two drives . |
| 5 | Dashed lines show the regions of genomic DNA that are deleted in five XLA patients . |
| 6 | They had found a patch of clean sand half-shaded by the rocks that were heaped on one side of the little cove . |
| 7 | He hesitated for a moment when he saw the girl sitting on one of the large black leather sofas that were ranged along one wall . |
| 8 | Now that I have time again I shall also be able to finish off the other articles that were put on one side during the museum work . |
| 9 | This shows that is composed of two frequency dependent components ; is the real part in phase with the strain called the storage modulus , and is the loss modulus defined as the ratio of the component 90° out of phase with the stress to the stress itself . |
| 10 | Power , then , in pluralist analyses , is not a simple property that is given to one group and denied to another on the basis of economic or social position . |
| 11 | The special language that is shared by two people who love one another . |
| 12 | Coloured maps can be produced on a dot-matrix printer by using a printer ribbon that is divided into three parts horizontally along the length of the ribbon . |
| 13 | And you ca n't get a big powerful sound out of a bass that 's fitted with 30–95 gauge strings , because it 's actually more of a tenor guitar . |
| 14 | The only thing that 's changed in ten years is the way she moves . |
| 15 | The 1984 British Open may well go down as the Open that was lost by two players as much as it was won by Severiano Ballesteros . |
| 16 | It was an event that was attended by 12,000 people — three times more than last year . |
| 17 | Goods trains coming from the Baltic to Moscow took between one and four weeks , a distance that was covered in fourteen hours by passenger trains . |
| 18 | Porter peered over the landing rail , through the steel netting that was strung from one side to the other , and noticed that , on the landing below , prisoners who had finished slopping out had not in fact returned to their cells but were standing outside , their attempts at entry barred by warders . |
| 19 | In the end there has to be a limit , there has to be a level beyond which you can not go without people cracking under the strain , without people saying I 'm now doing the job that was done by two people , two and half people a few years ago . |
| 20 | As this was a Bill that was passed for one year only , the refusal to pass it would effectively restore the Lords ' power over the government by taking away its legal control over the army . |
| 21 | The birds of one group were put , each with an unopened milk container , in one compartment of a cage that was divided into two compartments by a wire mesh through which the birds could see . |
| 22 | The injunction began a saga that was to run for two months , as Virgin scrabbled to find another bank to take over the role played in the lease agreement by Chemical . |
| 23 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 24 | They were in a corridor that was lined on one side with a six-foot-high bank of cages . |
| 25 | In or about that year Count Hartmann of Kyburg built the town on a rock that was surrounded on three sides by the river Aare . |
| 26 | He was referring to the brigade of Dutch-Belgian infantry that was spread in four ranks either side of the road to block a direct attack from Frasnes . |
| 27 | Such systems are known in at least 6–8% of all angiosperms and are represented in 71 plant families with poricidal anthers , those notable in the tropics being Solanaceae . |
| 28 | The quasar pair UM673A and UM673B both have red shifts of 2.72 and are separated by 2.2 arcsec . |
| 29 | These people prepare diagrams , drawings and plans of a technical nature and are employed at two levels , design and detail . |
| 30 | Ideas are born and are exchanged between one partner and another — as equals speaking to equals — talking the same language : that of aeronautics and space technology . |