Example sentences of "be [num] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key game : home to Streatham on Sunday , who are one place above the Stars in the League . |
| 2 | Pipe 's Run For Free is 5-2 favourite with the sponsors to follow-up the brilliant success of Carvill 's Hill 12 months ago . |
| 3 | ‘ failed to accord precedence to a foot passenger on the carriageway ’ This point means that the offending driver did not stop at or before the ‘ give-way ’ line , where provided , which is one metre from the limits of the crossing or at the limits to accord precedence . |
| 4 | But there is one change on the employers ' side that needs to be mirrored for employees : the abolition of the ceiling . |
| 5 | I was to perform two of Joyce 's pieces , the first being ‘ Committee ’ , a deadly accurate re-creation of a Northern Ladies Choral Committee meeting convened to axe one of its founder members : ‘ Now , we do n't want any unpleasantness , friendly is what we are and friendly is how we mean to go on … but I think we all know there is one voice in the altos that did not ought to be there . |
| 6 | Provision of asthma care in the community is one example of the problems we face . |
| 7 | Cos they are quite tame , I mean that 's one thing about the hens I mean they ca n't come out though , they just wander about . |
| 8 | The loyalists would then interpret the government 's actions as being proof that there was one law for the nationalists and another for the loyalists . |
| 9 | There was one child amongst the others called who was eight months old at the time . |
| 10 | Owner of a fabled art collection in California , which he was too busy ever to visit , his soon familiar face , like a bloodhound lugubriously scenting wasted pennies , was one symbol of the times : if you , too , struck oil you could be as rich and careworn as Getty and have as little time and capacity to enjoy it . |
| 11 | Rivalry with France was one theme in the centuries of empire to come , but after the loss of Calais the English concentrated on capturing French colonies or in restraining French attempts to dominate Europe rather than on trying to make anything substantial out of the nominal claim to the French crown that English kings asserted until 1801 . |