Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him .
2 In an exchange of fire , six Armenian militants were shot dead , and 10 servicemen and a passer-by were injured .
3 If they did , it will be at least 10 years before a cure is developed .
4 Sickness benefit is payable for up to twenty-eight weeks if a person is incapacitated for work at the rate of£33.20 a week , together with £20.55 for an adult dependant .
5 Three cars and a lorry were involved — The road was closed for several hours and diversions put into operation .
6 Although the basics of toilet training can be mastered rapidly , it will take two or three months before a puppy is regularly asking to go outside of its own accord .
7 Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government .
8 For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy .
9 It is ridiculous that people wait up to three years until a decision is reached .
10 A dozen shags and a cormorant are perched on a stack nearby and , as usual , the cormorant is the first to ‘ chicken out ’ and fly off as we approach .
11 It will be remembered that Dudley and Stephens was the case where three men and a cabin-boy were compelled to take to an open boat after the wreck of their yacht Mignonette .
12 Three men and a boy were shot dead and , when tents were set ablaze , two women and eleven children who had hidden in an underground cellar , were suffocated by smoke .
13 Three men and a woman are being questioned by police in connection with the murder of a car dealer whose remains were found in a lake .
14 The incident occurred 48 hours after three men and a woman were shot dead allegedly infiltrating up the River Tigris by boat .
15 Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed .
16 Sixteen pubs and a nightclub are taking part in the scheme , being regarded as a preventive measure rather than replacing the normal reporting of incidents to the police .
17 This was at the Apollo 17 site where a sample was chipped from a boulder several metres across .
18 Midlands Electricity has been fined more than ( 29,000 ) twenty nine thousand pounds after a contractor was killed in an explosion at a power station .
19 The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty .
20 The bodies of 6 ewes and a ram were piled onto a tractor trailer near where they drowned in the Stretford Brook .
21 Three gold , five silver and a bronze was the final count from a dry run Commonwealth Games tournament in which the best boxer award , plus a magnificent trophy went to the tall 20-year-old Woodvale lad , Stephen Kirk .
22 NINE rebels and a soldier were killed in a clash with Turkish security forces near the Syrian border , Ankara authorities said yesterday , adding claims that Kurdish separatists receive foreign support .
23 ANOTHER schoolgirl has been sexually attacked on her paper round , five days after a 14-year-old was raped .
24 A full nine days before a mission was far too long .
25 A master asked him on one occasion whether a word was nominative or dative , and back came his answer : ‘ I do n't really care , sir ! ’
26 One policeman and a civilian were wounded , and there were numerous arrests .
27 The practice of the present Auditor is to accept that a Tender lodged one week before a Proof is good in relation to the expenses of the Proof itself .
28 Mrs Jean Vince ( 29 ) was said to be recovering at St James 's Hospital , Leeds and husband Jan ( 36 ) ‘ has n't touched base ’ since the five girls and a boy were all born healthy , weighing between 2lb 12oz and 1lb 6oz .
29 Jan Vince 's five girls and a boy were born by caesarean section to mum Jean within six minutes at St James 's Hospital in Leeds on May 19 .
30 There was one thing where a guy was writing The Bells Of Lal Pt 2 from the ‘ Flying ’ record and he had done the entire song an eighth note off !
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