Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six you were doing a harder one than they was asking . |
| 2 | A MAN of 35 who was given a new liver in the world 's first baboon-to-human transplant has died 71 days after the historic op in Pittsburgh , USA . |
| 3 | In 1920 he was appointed a superintending chemist and exercised his encyclopaedic knowledge of organic chemistry , and his administrative abilities , to organize the considerable amount of new work arising from the Safeguarding of Industries Act of 1921 and from new silk duties in 1926 , each case involving many thousands of samples . |
| 4 | Moreover in the years 1176–7 he was taking a keen interest in the competing politics of the Spanish kingdoms and he may well have instructed Richard to ensure that the great road south from Bordeaux to the Pyrenees was kept open for travellers of all sorts , pilgrims , traders and couriers . |
| 5 | When servicemen were demobilised in 1918 they were given a free unemployment insurance policy which entitled them to an ‘ out-of-work-donation ’ for a maximum of twenty-six weeks during the first twelve months following their demobilisation . |
| 6 | In Michaelmas term 1264 he was appointed a junior justice of the Common Bench and remained a justice of the court till the end of Trinity term 1265 . |
| 7 | After winning his first two Tour titles in the Piccadilly Medal and the Martini International in 1976 he was to record a further nine victories in the space of the next nine seasons . |
| 8 | Lot number fifty Lot fifty is a wood carving , a Japanese wood carving , eighty pounds for this , eighty five , ninety five , one hundred and ten I 'm offered a hundred and ten pounds , I shall sell , one twenty , one thirty , forty , fifty one sixty bid I 'm offered one sixty to my right , at one hundred and sixty pounds , have you all finished at one sixty ? |
| 9 | Lot number thirty three Lot number thirty three is the hanging basket there 's the hanging basket showing , a hundred pounds for this , at one hundred pounds and ten twenty , thirty , forty , fifty sixty , seventy one eighty I 'm offered a hundred and eighty pounds , one ninety two hundred two twenty , two forty , two sixty eighty three hundred three hundred 's bid on my left and selling for three hundred pounds second row , three hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Now police want to talk to a man in his fifties who was walking a black labrador-type dog in the area at the time . |
| 11 | From the mid-1970s , the Docklands were given equal priority with the new towns ; after 1977 they were given a higher status . |
| 12 | By the 1920s it was enjoying a wide circulation . |
| 13 | Over the next few years Yakovlev continued to design and build a variety of successful single-engined biplanes and monoplanes and in July 1934 he was given a derelict bed factory on Moscow Leningradski Prospekt where he set up his own OKB and this has remained the headquarters ever since and also now holds the Museum . |
| 14 | Seventy pounds , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety five one hundred and ten one twenty I 'm offered a hundred and twenty pounds , I 'll sell , one thirty one forty fifty one sixty one seventy one eighty one ninety carrying on , sir ? |
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| 16 | In 1868 he was appointed a resident engineer on the Windsor and Minneapolis Railway in Nova Scotia . |
| 17 | In 1868 he was awarded a Minor Entrance Scholarship to Cambridge , and the School celebrated with an extra holiday on 8th May . |
| 18 | In 1863 she was awarded a first-class certificate . |
| 19 | In 1944 he was awarded a free place as a weekly boarder at Rowan House School . |