Example sentences of "be [verb] the [adj] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 2 | can I just ask British Steel , that I mean you 're hearing the other two groups . |
| 3 | They 'll be given the same three options I should imagine . |
| 4 | To the resident population of inner London must be added the one million commuters estimated to travel into the city each day as well as visitors and the increasing numbers of homeless people . |
| 5 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 6 | My suggestions would be to trim the top two divisions to eight teams each and then play the leagues on a home and away basis , thus having only 14 league matches . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 8 | ‘ Some swine stole her and ran her on to a coral reef , ’ I said , ‘ and I 'm spending the next two months mending her . ’ |
| 9 | Erm yeah , tomorrow 's basically horrendously busy and I 'm temping the next two days , but I 'm free in the evenings . |
| 10 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 11 | It said : ‘ I 'm so sorry to send a hired car but the first eleven foremen are playing the first eleven chauffeurs and there 's no-one else to drive you ’ . ’ |
| 12 | 21–7 Between 200 and 300 Glasgow Fair visitors were brought by the steamer " Islay " and more were expected the next two days . |
| 13 | And if I think you were to read the first two pages of his autobiography , there 's a dedicatory verse on another page , I ca n't help feeling that you will agree with me that , in a , there 's something embarrassing about them . |
| 14 | In August it was announced that all first-year Beijing University students would undergo a year of military and political training , while two other top universities were to devote the first five weeks of the new term to the study of documents issued by the central authorities on the " truth " about the " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 15 | Erm and so I , I believe that er the resolution in fact on the order paper will stand er and if we were to remove the first two lines er of Mr 's erm resolution that the County Council he represents if necessary that in a full , a full public enquiry into the fifth terminial at Heathrow , if we get that and graft on the rest of his words er to the resolution er on the Chairman er that will do two things er it reads er the quality of our Officers are suggesting and it picks up again a very important comments er that he makes er regarding post , er , er something that is public erm , er and that it , it meets media and the other improve that 's something for the district office report . |
| 16 | BR are hoping the eighty million pounds spent on new Turbo trains will bring and end to the complaints . |
| 17 | Sir , we would Er my suggestion would be that if tomorrow were the cutoff date , that we be given the ordinary two weeks in which to respond . |
| 18 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 19 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 20 | The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back . |
| 21 | What Summerchild is doing , now he has someone to do it for , is living the last dozen years of his life , which have gone by without his quite taking them in . |
| 22 | His advice is to study the first four pages of the explanatory booklet carefully , particularly paragraph six — action to take now . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Potter 's spent the last fifteen years harming people like Geoffrey . |
| 25 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 26 | Tomorrow in the final part of the series , a farmer who 's spent the last ten years converting his farm puts the case for organic farming . |
| 27 | That 's my normal naming convention , my normal naming convention is use the first two letters W L. W I 've explained , and L stands for linking . |
| 28 | Now with a group of other Britons he 's cycling the fifteen hundred miles of his original escape route , to raise money for surviving resistance members . |
| 29 | Mr Ashdown is to spend the last four days of the campaign stressing the need for a lasting coalition to rescue the country from economic and political crisis . |
| 30 | To have a chance of winning one of these fabulous pairs of boots all you have to do is find the following eight words in the word square : LINE 7 , GORETEX , GT RIFT , RAIDER , PANDA , RANGER , ROVER and LADY GT . |