Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [det] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An explanation for this may lie in the way that children are treated in these two cultures : Western conditioning tends to be based on the idea of guilt . |
| 2 | Such skills as are implicated in those two lists are essentially relationship skills and are arguably as relevant to individual professional/client relationships as they are to work with self-advocacy groups . |
| 3 | Intermittent series based on 50 year averages have also been calculated for another 50 items , and a large number of individual valuations for items which occur only rarely have also been collected . |
| 4 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 5 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 6 | Four people , having served their community , have been confined for some seven years and now find that their right of appeal is being hindered by some legal technicality or misinterpretation of the law . |
| 7 | It suggests that the 26-year-old Ranger will be a bench man until such time as someone takes a knock , runs out of steam or the game has been won with some 20 minutes to go . |
| 8 | Mounting dissent had been reported from all 10 homelands after President F. W. de Klerk announced the lifting of some restrictions on political activity in early February [ see p. 37232 ] . |
| 9 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 10 | This may suggest that at least some thelodonts are related to these two groups . |
| 11 | WITH HAIR styling excess no longer flavour of the month , the smart ‘ salons ’ are looking for more Nineties methods of lightening your pockets . |
| 12 | They are looking for another 90 agents nationwide . |
| 13 | Judging by the visitors ' book , it has already been seen by several thousand members of the public and potential clients — including visitors from most European Countries and from as far away as Brazil , Alaska and South Korea . |
| 14 | Rhodes suggested that the two-tier structure had been related to these two objectives . |
| 15 | The high-tech personalised plastic cards — nicknamed bog breakers — have been handed to all 1,400 pupils at The Ridings School at Winterbourne , near Bristol . |
| 16 | The group are staying for another 24 hours , during which they 're hoping whatever did go bump in the night will make a return appearance . |
| 17 | She is right to draw our attention to the importance of signalling in both ‘ actual living and theatre ’ , but it should not be assumed that the same kinds of signs are employed in these two contexts . |
| 18 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 19 | At the last two tournaments that Nomad played they fielded an illegal team and have subsequently been disqualified from these two tournaments . |
| 20 | But voters whose preferences have been distributed between these two parties will have been doing no more than indicate acceptable alternatives , of which the basic pattern must have been , " Let that candidate of Party B have my vote IF and only IF my higher preference for this candidate of Party A has not been effective " . |
| 21 | The whole place had been updated by some 25 years , with BR rectangular ‘ modern image ’ signs in white with black , mainly lower case lettering bearing the name ‘ New Cross ’ . |
| 22 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 23 | You can see that labels have been entered for these three values in A1 , A2 and A3 and one for the result in A4 . |
| 24 | And from Alan the new flats here , Norman helped by Dave and other members has been constructing substantial timber stroke hardboard flats although a bit heavier than the conventional canvas they will last for years and they really do provide superb sets as has been proved with all three plays presented this year . |
| 25 | Missionaries found that the book , which has been translated into some 200 languages , had an equal success in Africa , Asia and the Pacific and that the appeal of the story of a pilgrimage was universal . |
| 26 | From its peak combat strength of around 20,000 at the end of the Marcos era in 1985 , the guerrillas were thought to have been reduced to some 13,000 fighters by mid-1992 . |
| 27 | ‘ I have an arrangement to print thousands more , ’ he says , adding , ‘ I hear the HMSO edition will be delayed for another six weeks . ’ |
| 28 | Denmark 's vote makes it likely that Maastricht will , eventually , be ratified by all 12 members . |
| 29 | Exhibition fights can be arranged between any two boxers ( you can fight as any boxer in the league ) and take on the toughest or wimpish fighter . |
| 30 | Now it may well be that privileged social groups tend to be advantaged in all three areas , while subordinate groups normally enjoy poor life-chances , low status and little political influence . |