Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [conj] [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 550 boreholes have already been drilled and another 18 holes ( funded by a consortium of 13 oil companies ) were drilled in 1990 , concentrated in the area west of the Outer Hebrides Platform and east of the extensive basalts that cover the outer shelf and North Rockall Trough . |
| 2 | In respect of duration , the EC Commisssion has suggested that , as a general rule , five years will be a reasonable period where both goodwill and know-how are transferred but that two years is more appropriate where goodwill alone is transferred . |
| 3 | He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed . |
| 4 | We now form v , unc as in ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) , and solve ( 11 ) for M. To sufficient accuracy , we find unc and then a new Yo is , with d chosen appropriately , unc and it may be checked that these two columns are , sufficiently nearly , orthogonal . |
| 5 | If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper . |
| 6 | Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all . |
| 7 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 8 | It remained to be seen whether these four armies could be united before Negus Mikael could blockade Ras Lul Seged and Fitaurari Gelli in Ankober and advance into the plain of Debra Berhan where the first battle was expected to take place . |
| 9 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 10 | The chest has three different padlocks and can only be opened when all three keyholders , the vicar and the two hospital wardens , are present . |
| 11 | The attraction of such displays is that multi — dimensional relationships between subjects may be shown since any one subject can be displayed in juxtaposition with several others . |
| 12 | But it should be remembered that these two policies are not to be treated as mutually exclusive : the fiscal position often has important ramifications for the conduct of monetary policy . |
| 13 | ’ Be it observed , therefore , ’ Seely concluded his diagnosis , ‘ that in these three vital matters , which taken together create an emergency greater than any through which this country has passed for centuries , no solution can be found unless all three parties combine to solve them . ’ |
| 14 | In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific . |
| 15 | Considering the three /o/ words , it is clear that there are three different spelling patterns represented : It needs to be indicated that these three forms , plus the o of open , are the major ways in which the sound is spelled : in other words , when the pronunciation indicates the sound o , then it 's likely , depending on the position of the sound in the word , to be spelled like this : The oa is a medial spelling , but much rarer than o-e : boat , coat , float , goat , soap , throat . |
| 16 | It should be restated that these three aspects of policy , co-ordination , deregulation and development , can not always be neatly separated — there are grey areas . |
| 17 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 18 | But the fact should also be faced that these two developments represent in microcosm what has happened and is happening in many of Britain 's older industrial towns . |
| 19 | The non-clash of parts can be established if any one pair of silhouettes do not cross . |
| 20 | Without FGD retrofit across many more stations than are represented than those 8 GW , I do not think that that will be possible . |
| 21 | In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that these three cost categories can impact about 10 to 40 per cent of the well 's dryhole cost . |
| 23 | Women 's occupational ‘ choices ’ were limited and these five occupations predominated up to the time of World War II and well beyond it . |
| 24 | She had drunk very little , a small glass of wine while they were eating and another ten minutes before they came in . |
| 25 | Chapman and two of the players were censured and all three players ordered to refund their excess wages — which in effect saved the club over £ 1 00 towards the fine . |
| 26 | Makeshift dwellings were bulldozed and some 30,000 occupants were taken away by lorry and left at a site at Jebel Awliya some 60 km further south . |
| 27 | A hoax in Newcastle shut down the main BR railway station , and in Tyne and Wear thousands of tube passengers were stranded when all 46 Metro stations were evacuated while 37 miles of track was searched . |
| 28 | The graph is connected if any two nodes in it are the ends of a path . |
| 29 | Lowering of embankment heights and improvements to the design of the Musselburgh Bypass can be achieved if Mucklets Road is closed where these two roads cross each other . |
| 30 | A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed . |