Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Executives going on the course are expected to do 20–30 hours pre-work , in which they read the book and , with the help of questionnaires , assess themselves , their management styles and values . |
| 2 | The relocation is expected to take two weeks . |
| 3 | Six hours of daylight is claimed to give 12 hours of night time light , but of course these cast a soft diffused light rather than a beam you can direct creatively like a spotlight , and they have limitations during the dull days of a typical British winter . |
| 4 | Merseyside Fire Brigade was expecting to receive three times more call outs than normal tonight . |
| 5 | The structure in the bowling crease was used to co-ordinate two cameras which filmed bowlers from side-on and from directly behind the arm . |
| 6 | His car was found to contain 19.93 kilos of cannabis resin , with a street value of £65,000 . |
| 7 | The car was found dumped 3 miles away . |
| 8 | In December 1987 Peter Morrison , Minister of State for Energy , estimated that the North 's ( including Wear and Tees side ) offshore industry was expected to exceed 4000 jobs in 1988–9 . |
| 9 | THE hard-core porn channel Red Hot Dutch is to start broadcasting six nights a week instead of three . |
| 10 | The work 's scheduled to last 18 days , but the contractors are working round the clock to try and finish sooner . |
| 11 | The work is expected to take six months . |
| 12 | Gruelling Test Procedures — A sixty-cycle three month test is used to simulate eight years of regular motoring in Northern Europe or 15 years in a city such as London . |
| 13 | The problem was that Barlaston sat above one of the richest coal mines in Europe and the whole village was expected to sink forty feet over the next twenty years . |
| 14 | To assist with these tasks each policy and resources committee was recommended to have four sub-committees : finance , land , personnel , and performance review . |
| 15 | The list of favoured clients who received compensation was believed to exceed 200 names . |
| 16 | Zinc consumption was forecast to reach 5,360,000 tonnes in 1989 , a 2 per cent rise over 1988 levels , while production was expected to total 5,310,000 tonnes , up 1 per cent on 1988 . |
| 17 | Despite continued pressure from environmental groups to ban the use of lead , its consumption was expected to reach 4,430,000 tonnes in 1990 , very slightly ahead of the record levels attained in 1989 . |
| 18 | It will be recalled that Sutton depôt was built to house 60 cars , but up to now had rarely held more than 20 , so even with the overhaul facilities , there was plenty of space to spare . |
| 19 | The Queen was forced to cancel two engagements yesterday and another today because she has flu . |
| 20 | Following the elections a 25-member Pradesh Council was created comprising 21 members elected by the island councils , the Lok Sabha representative ( P. M. Sayeed , the Administrator ( J. Sagar ) , the Collector and a female representative . |
| 21 | His new seven storey mill was built to house 12 pairs of stones as well as fairly advanced cleaning and dressing machinery . |
| 22 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 23 | An orthodox Muslim is expected to pray 5 times a day on a " clean spot " facing the holy city of Mecca , and a special rug is an extremely convenient way of ensuring that this directive is obeyed . |
| 24 | The inquiry is expected to last six weeks . |
| 25 | ICL has to say , if asked , that the way out of their present crisis is to have started 10 years ago — 10 years that by steady attrition rather than any headline-grabbing lay-offs have seen ICL 's workforce decline to 26,000 — from 31,000 only four years ago . |
| 26 | The tunnelling of Phase 1 of the project from the gorge site is scheduled to take three years to three and a half years to complete . |
| 27 | Electronic Data Systems Corp has won a 10-year contract from Southland Corp to install as many as 4,000 automated teller machines in 7-11 stores across the US : installation will begin in June and the process is expected to take three years to complete and the General Motors Corp subsidiary will manage processing , administration , fulfillment and enhancement of the kit . |
| 28 | The initial target of 120 members for the co-op has already been achieved and the group is aiming to market 70,000 lambs and 6000 head of beef cattle in its first year . |
| 29 | A blood sample taken from her after the accident was found to contain 366 mgs of alcohol per 100 mls of blood . |
| 30 | One specimen was found to have 5,000 times the expected concentration of plutonium in its flesh . |