Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 2 | The couple will begin their married life in Cyprus , where Paul , whose home is in Liverpool , has been posted for the next 18 months . |
| 3 | At a time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely in that time with such grace and preconception-shattering nerve . |
| 4 | AT A time when the easy option for a band like Moose would be to step up the distortion , rip off a few riffs and steam into the easy-money heaven where rock pigs run wild , they 've flipped away on a heady , affecting tangent that 's been traced in the last five or ten years by The Weather Prophets and Lloyd Cole , but rarely with such grace . |
| 5 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 6 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 7 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 8 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 9 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 10 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 11 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 12 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 13 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 14 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 15 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 16 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |
| 17 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 18 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 19 | This corn-coloured type has been formed in the last 20 or 30 years by absorbing several of the Pyrenean breeds and it was recognised as a breed in its own right in 1962 . |
| 20 | And now we are to wait for the next ethnic war to intervene to salve our pitifully insensitive consciences and our failure to shape and conduct an effective policy : a neat one , no complications , allowing intervention with few , possibly no , losses . |
| 21 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 22 | These are addressed in the first five rooms , which treat late Bellini , Giorgione ( above all in the half-lengths ) , the Venetian Sebastiano , early Titian and the Giorgione-Titian-Campagnola controversy among the drawings . |
| 23 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 24 | 30 per cent of South Africa 's native woodlands have been felled in the last 15-20 years . |
| 25 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 26 | Some of these are included in the Sixth Five Year Plan , and some of which have been tacked on to ad hoc annual plans . |
| 27 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 28 | About 30 horses have been attacked over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |
| 29 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 30 | I mean if we look at erm the large number of single parent families , mainly who are headed by women , the position of Social Security for these women has deteriorated in the last few years erm both in terms of the real value of the money received ; Child Benefit has been frozen for the last three or four years ; regulations such as you used to be able to offset your child care expenses when you were claiming income support have been changed , women can no longer can now only earn erm fifteen pounds a week of they 're a single parent and they can not offset their child care costs . |