Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 2 | Their reaction was predictable : ‘ One expects them to groan , though I do n't know quite why we should be seeing a piece as it was performed 50 years ago . |
| 3 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 4 | It was just too much for the American girl when they were faced one day with yet another torrential downpour . |
| 5 | Tiny Tabard 's hopes were dashed after taking a 7–0 lead as they were mauled 50–13 by mighty Northampton . |
| 6 | In a Swedish study , patients with IBS treated with eight sessions of ‘ supportive psychotherapy which could be performed in any physician 's office ’ had fewer symptoms and psychological and physical disability compared with a control group when they were seen 3 months later . |
| 7 | At the reconstructed Berlin Wall where they are reconciled 34 years later , the crowd will swell to 500 . |
| 8 | ANDRE AGASSI was given a helping hand last night in his bid to retain his Wimbledon title when he was elevated five places above his world ranking to No 8 seed for the Championships , which begin next Monday . |
| 9 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 10 | Table-toppers Rhyl lost their 100 per cent record in the Manweb Cymru Alliance when they were beaten 3-2 at Gresford in September . |
| 11 | BJORN BORG 'S hopes of a return to his former glories received another setback when he was beaten 6–3 , 6–7 , 7–6 by Venezuela 's Nicolas Pereira in the second round of an exhibition event in Houston , writes John Parsons . |
| 12 | Mr Hill said : ‘ Mr McGregor appreciated something was not right but had no more time than a split second to begin to look round the corner of his chair when he was struck two extremely heavy blows to the base of his skull and the back of his neck by this defendant wielding a heavy fire extinguisher . |
| 13 | I have been Havelock Blaine 's mistress since he was turned twenty-one , nine years ago . |
| 14 | Wide-awake Vincent has snatched a maximum of four hours a night shut-eye since he was born 3 ½ years ago . |
| 15 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 16 | SCOTLAND 's interest in the Fiji International Sevens will be restricted to the Plate competition after they were beaten 19-0 by Western Samoa in their final pool match early today . |
| 17 | I knew the answer before I was recalled twenty minutes later , and Dr Barton pronounced judgment . |
| 18 | In the late 1920s W. Embden , professor of physiology at the University of Frankfurt , found that German miners produced 20 per cent more coal when they were given 7 grams a day , decidedly a harmful dose , of sodium hydrogen phosphate . |
| 19 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 20 | Fourteen-month-old Michael suffered a fractured skull and bruising on the brain after he was flung 25 yards into the air from his pushchair and landed head first into a busy main road near the Mersey tunnel entrance in Liverpool . |
| 21 | Strachan said : ‘ It came as a big surprise when I was told six weeks ago my name was being put forward . |
| 22 | Labour accused him of mis-using a public building when it was revealed 300 Conservative women attended a coffee morning at 11 Downing Street , organised by his wife Rosemary . |
| 23 | Three times in succession they have fallen in the semi-finals , and Beenhakker 's departure became a formality when they were thrashed 5-0 by Milan at San Siro last season . |
| 24 | Brett weighed a mere 1lb 5oz and was as short as a watchstrap when he was born seventeen weeks early . |
| 25 | France put future prospects before personal glory when they were beaten 4–1 by Germany in the play-off for the bronze medal . |
| 26 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |
| 27 | Having returned to China to work in and among the numerous but fragmented Vietnamese independence factions , Ho 's position as an acknowledged communist in what was an essentially anti-communist Kuomintang was always precarious and for whatever reason he was imprisoned ( in conditions of great hardship ) it seems likely that he had been close to the point of death before he was released thirteen months later : Chen suggests because of communist sympathisers in the local Kuomintang hierarchy . |
| 28 | Ulbricht died in office when he was gone eighty , did n't he ? ’ |