Example sentences of "be [verb] a [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are using a full 24 bit colour photo-retouching or vector graphics drawing program on a system which can only display 16 or 256 colours Windows will attempt to represent all the screen colours required . |
| 2 | A CONTROVERSIAL £270 computer game condemned as filthy , violent and evil has been given a mild 15 rating by British film censors . |
| 3 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 4 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 5 | And finally , a local furniture project , are opening a new twelve bed hostel for young people who are homeless . |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Electric Corp has been granted a provisional double-A-3 rating for a shelf registration in Japan for the equivalent of $860m of debt , citing its market positions as Japan 's third largest integrated electric and electronics manufacturer , its sound financial condition , solid profit margins , and its expected strong cash flows arising from its well-diversified business lines , for the rating . |
| 7 | to that point , we 're doing a steady three metres per second . |
| 8 | But a lot of people buy a second hand car privately , and there are pages of these in the Nottingham Evening Post every day you know where people are paying a few hundred pounds , or it may be a few thousand pounds , for a second hand car . |
| 9 | Mercury are rushing a further 46 payphones to the Gulf . |
| 10 | We are buying a One Ten County and we were wondering if it is possible to fit central locking using Range Rover parts . |
| 11 | If you write a spreadsheet for somebody else , you might be using a sixty six megahertz four eight six duel processor erm , spaceship , and , somebody is using a steam driven I B M A T or something , and it runs quite acceptably on your machine , a reasonable speed , and you give it to somebody else on that steam driven thing , and it takes ages to do anything , and er , you press a button and they wait half an hour sort of thing . |
| 12 | Existing gainers of the subsidy would presumably be given a further five years ' grace , and new recruits would similarly benefit . |
| 13 | If this fails to achieve the desired results , then they would be given a further 15 years to replace lead service lines . |
| 14 | A recommended density of 136 persons per acre ( up to 200 in parts ) would involve the decentralization of 618,000 people , to which would be added a further 415,000 people for decanting from overcrowded places outside the LCC , giving a total of 1,033,000 in all . |
| 15 | But , although eyebrows were raised in April at the unexpected announcement that DG would be axing a further 1,000 jobs , reducing the total headcount to just over 7,000 , from 17,700 a few years ago , Skates maintains that these cuts — 600 to 700 of which have already been effected — would have been implemented regardless of the company 's financial performance . |
| 16 | Packs of Zener diodes can be had at reasonable prices , but as these components do not feature in many projects these days , you could well be buying a two hundred year supply ! |
| 17 | Cos I 'll be having a new three piece |
| 18 | The disadvantage is that he would be based at and he would still be working a twenty four hour shift system at . |
| 19 | Customers are charged a nominal 50 pence donation … but people who ca n't pay wo n't be turned away . |
| 20 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 21 | Again it was done live and so , from the cast 's point-of-view , they were expected to learn their lines and movements as if they were doing a conventional four act stage play . |
| 22 | The drag of the loaded inflatable had slowed the catamaran so that they were making a bare five knots . |
| 23 | I noticed , during a recent visit to , that they were offering a twenty five percent below capacity . |
| 24 | Adam Blandy , at Quinta do Palheiro Ferreiro , is building a new eighteen hole golf course complete with accommodation . |
| 25 | LSI Logic Corp is transferring most of its semiconductor fabrication to Japan , where it is building a new 0.6 micron wafer fabrication facility in a joint venture with Kawasaki Steel Co , and will cut a total of 450 jobs . |
| 26 | The Singapore Broadcasting Corporation is building a further nine film and television studios in a complex to be called Television World . |
| 27 | On top , he 's given a 3 500 housing allowance , and can look forward to a pension of up to 19 500 pounds a year . |
| 28 | 8 A coin collector has C coins and is given a further 20 coins.If he now has 2,352 coins altogether , how many did he have at first ? |
| 29 | Some residents on a housing estate that 's undergone a six million pound refurbishment say they were better off in their old flats . |
| 30 | Another from a character called Piman announces he is selling a rare 1978 edition of Be Bop High School for 50,000 yen . |