Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun sg] [noun] be " in BNC.
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1 | Sales were split 50–50 and a set fee was advanced per month on the legal basis of a three-year agreement . |
2 | However , it was in March 1917 that a fighting body was founded in Italy , led by Mussolini , called Fascists , who were avowed anti-communists and anti-socialists . |
3 | As it happens , the problems of an unstaged Porgy are hardly less acute — a cast of 24 soloists and a duration of three and a quarter hours are not easily managed in the concert hall . |
4 | The date over the door is 1708 and a fire place is dated 1758 , but in an early Parish Register someone from Dubber Beck was buried in 1632 . |
5 | It was reduced to only two dozen cows during the 1970s but a breed society was formed in 1984 and numbers have increased to about 100 , with a large bank of frozen semen ; it remains severely endangered . |
6 | It was not until 1978 that a feasibility study was undertaken on the possible application of a Company Personnel System . |
7 | Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course . |
8 | As a result of the demonstration the Estonian Supreme Soviet announced on May 16 that a Home Guard was being set up to defend government buildings , and the Tallinn city council placed a temporary ban on the organization responsible for calling the demonstration , the United Council of Work Collectives . |
9 | Consider the situation where D = 1 and a clock pulse is applied . |
10 | This makes D1 = 1 and a clock pulse is also given to CK2 . |
11 | If the summons for recovery of land has been served under Ord 10 , r 15 and a money claim is joined , the court must , unless it thinks it just to do otherwise , mark the summons " not served " as to the money claim ( Ord 10 , r 15(5) ) . |
12 | Ironic as it may seem today , modern redundancy law developed from the belief in the 1960s that a state scheme was needed as an incentive to job mobility at a time of chronic labour shortage . |
13 | The gearbox in my 1973 Series III two and a quarter petrol is noisy and jumps out of third gear . |
14 | The fuel consumption of my 1966 IIA two and a quarter petrol is horrendous and the oil consumption is not much better . |
15 | Thirty two and a half maximum was n't it ? |
16 | Murray , who was twenty four and a trainee teacher was murdered last Saturday night as he walked through the town with friends from his college rugby team . |
17 | It is hoped the home will be open early in 1994 but a management committee is already being set up . |