Example sentences of "[num] and [pron] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 2 | Its herdbook was formed in 1892 and there was a breed society from 1920 to 1938 but it was reconstructed from a few remaining individuals , with the result that there was considerable inbreeding and a particularly popular bull , widely used for his whiteness , was later found to have spread a serious genetic defect ( hypoplasia ) correlated to the degree of whiteness . |
| 3 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 4 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 5 | twin compact disc seven , two , eight and there 's a twin compact disc as well |
| 6 | There 's a few thirties and there 's a couple I think probably in their forties but when it comes to the high impact they do n't do it they just step it out you know . |
| 7 | ERICK : ‘ I must have been about 18 and he was a DJ in a local nightclub . |
| 8 | That week I was doubled up with backache , was forty , felt sixty and it was a standing joke among our friends . |
| 9 | ‘ They picked me up from a Sunday team near White Hart Lane when I was 11 and there are a lot like me , ’ Watson said . |
| 10 | This event last occurred in 1928 and it is a measure of the immense volume of water released that there was flooding on the Punjabi Plains , more than 800 miles away . |
| 11 | He rang at twelve-thirty-five and there was a train at twelve-forty-five . |
| 12 | Why could n't he have a Ford ? ) was outside No. 16 and there was a builder 's flat-backed truck parked in front of it . |
| 13 | Cos I worked out that was fifteen and there were a picture go . |
| 14 | SMOKEY ROBINSON has been singing and writing his love sings since the age of 13 and it 's a whole three decades since he had his first hit . |
| 15 | It were in the 1920s and it was a passenger train from Cleethorpes to Doncaster and the driver , well , he was a hard , fast driver and he was n't popular with firemen . |
| 16 | Now the burglar alarm 's probably the , the biggest thing , but we ca n't all afford the , I mean I have n't got one and I 'm a crime prevention officer , I mean by rights I should have one but I have n't . |
| 17 | because I remember erm talking to one and there are a number in York who |
| 18 | In addition , the pace of wage reduction fell and only one-eighth of the amount was taken off the weekly wage bill between 1930–3 as was taken from the net weekly wage bill for 192 1.47 Also , there was little to suggest that the pattern and the style of industrial relations was greatly altered by the General Strike : the number of workers on strike and the number of days of work lost were already declining well before 1926 and there was a rise of industrial militancy in the late 1920s and early 1930s as unions attempted to resist the further wage cuts being advocated by employers . |
| 19 | The project should be completed by 1989 and there is a possibility of a second station on the same site . |
| 20 | The year was 1931 and there were a lot of other lads and lassies standing around anxiously like me . |
| 21 | Wu Shih is holding an emergency meeting of the Seven and there 's a two-hundred- li exclusion zone about Manhattan . ’ |
| 22 | Heidrick and Struggles had a difficult time when the founders , Gardner Heidrick and John Struggles , left the firm in the early 1980s and there was a period of turmoil until an international partnership structure emerged . |
| 23 | The concert was at 2.30 and there was a rehearsal in the morning . |