Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should be aiming to lose 1–2 lbs per week until you get back to your goal weight . |
| 2 | If in effect , Clasper said that three men must be employed to do two men 's work , then that was it . |
| 3 | He 'll be helping to escourt sixteen tons of glass to the school and will also carry out repairs . |
| 4 | You 'll be ordered to pay eight pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs . |
| 5 | Some can develop higher order thinking in a highly constructive way — for instance pupils could be asked to compare two features that are not adjacent to each other , but are found in different parts of the building . |
| 6 | One bistable is needed for each bit — thus , a 4-bit counter ( able to count up to 1111 or 15 in decimal ) could be made using 4 flip-flops ( or 2 off 4013 's ) . |
| 7 | 9 Find the area of the largest square that could be made using 64 metres of fencing . |
| 8 | Earthtrust agreed to assist in caring for nine of the dolphins , if agreement could be reached to release three dolphins and the five remaining false killer whales . |
| 9 | Good software could be said to provide two levels of usage — idiot and expert . |
| 10 | In a sense Patrick O'Brian may be said to offer two heroes , each capable both of influencing events and being affected by them . |
| 11 | On chemical weapons , all the principal elements were agreed , the basic position being that sufficient of each country 's stock would be destroyed to leave 5,000 tonnes , production of new weapons would cease and they would join forces to try and secure a global ban on such weapons . |
| 12 | The agreement on aircraft specified that the USA would be allowed to have 150 bombers , each equipped with a maximum of 20 cruise missiles , although only 10 would be counted under the START rules . |
| 13 | In this way , we would be guaranteed to produce 500 men and 500 women . |
| 14 | He also received a three-year period of probation — during which he would be required to perform 1,800 hours of community service per year — on a more general conspiracy charge . |
| 15 | If the White Paper becomes an Act of Parliament , the whole of the M5 and nearly all of the M1 will be widened to take four lanes in each direction . |
| 16 | Joint organisers the Spastics Society and the Cancer Research Campaign promise a day of fun for the family when people of all ages will be challenged to travel 12 kilometres of the unopened bypass using any form of non-motorised travel , the crazier the better . |
| 17 | Over £1,500 was raised at the fete and this will be used to give 200 pensioners a slap-up Christmas dinner . |
| 18 | In the second phase the individual measures will be used to follow two classes of children through their first year of school , and a further two classes through their first term . |
| 19 | Katharine will be expected to make two speeches during her visit , but for now she 's practicing the most important phrase : thank-you for having me . |
| 20 | The lease in our sample document can be seen to comprise five parts , as follows : |
| 21 | These three places are equidistant and , if taken to fall on the circumference of a circle , can be seen to form three points of a decagon , the centre of which falls at the hamlet of Whiteleafed Oak , where Worcestershire , Herefordshire and Gloucestershire meet . |
| 22 | The claim is based on the hardware complexity : Media Vision says that both the Motion Picture Expert Group and Digital Video Interactive standard require around 400,000 gates to implement on a chip , whereas its ‘ Captain Crunch ’ technology can be built using 20,000 gates , while offering video in a 320 by 240 window at 30 frames a second with 24-bit colour . |
| 23 | Additionally the company claims that a lot of the glue logic normally needed has been incorporated into the chip so that a full SuperVGA card with support for video and audio recording and play-back can be built using 11 chips . |
| 24 | In normal bit-image mode an 80-column printer can be programmed to print 540 dots horizontally across the paper , with the number of dots printed vertically being restricted only by the length of the paper . |
| 25 | Root definitions can be used to define two things that are otherwise both vague and difficult . |
| 26 | DEFW can be used to set 2 bytes of memory to a particular value . |
| 27 | This exercise can be executed using 2 benches or 2 chairs . |
| 28 | ‘ It goes yellow if you keep it for too long and I do n't see how anyone can be expected to use fifty tablecloths even in a lifetime — not mucky-looking yellow ones . |