Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 18 | The charge will be 0 for the first 6 months that a property is empty . |
| 19 | The bodies of 6 ewes and a ram were piled onto a tractor trailer near where they drowned in the Stretford Brook . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ANOTHER schoolgirl has been sexually attacked on her paper round , five days after a 14-year-old was raped . |
| 22 | A full nine days before a mission was far too long . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 26 | In Tirana on March 10 two schools and a hospital were looted . |
| 27 | In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements . |
| 28 | The New Zealand openers , veteran John Wright and debutant Blair Hartland , who was appearing on his home ground , were glad to face just 14 balls before a halt was called for the day . |
| 29 | The most common experiences in the two years before a cancer is diagnosed are a significant loss or a sense of meaninglessness in the whole process of living . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , two stragglers and a dog are running to catch up with the main party ( 2 ) . |