Example sentences of "and it be [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may look like a minute , but it 's not a minute , and it 's getting less one with every line . |
| 2 | And it 's running for ten hours . |
| 3 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 4 | This Government is bankrupt of ideas and it is motivated by one thing , the need to survive . |
| 5 | The structure of the international economy — that it is shaped by relations between national economies , each with their own dynamic , and it is characterized by one national economy in a hegemonic position . |
| 6 | I regard barbaric sport , not only perhaps as fox hunting but also such things as boxing , where two people , two individuals do their best to hit the life out of the other and it is watched by thousands of people . |
| 7 | The Federation Cup itself was purchased in 1982 for £300 and it is inscribed in two languages , English and French . |
| 8 | The new section from Market Bosworth to Shenton will take the length of the operating section to four and a quarter miles and it is opening after ten years of fund-raising . |
| 9 | See , it has no proper point , and it is sharpened along one edge only . |
| 10 | Thus the evening newspapers were able to report Heath 's victory that day ; and it was confirmed at 11.30 next morning when the second ballot closed and there was only one nomination-for Heath . |
| 11 | In 1910 her The History of English Secular Embroidery appeared and it was followed in 1914 by Furniture in England from 1660 to 1770 and Decoration in England from 1660 to 1770 , albeit both under the name of the fashionable decorator Francis Lenygon , by whom Margaret was casually employed . |
| 12 | In 1707 , Gibraltar became besieged by the Spaniards and it was defended for three years by General Elliot , who became Lord Heathfield and who bought Heathfield House , facing Turnham Green , from Lord Egmont , in 1789 . |
| 13 | The beautiful old building in neoclassical style is called the Palacio de Anaya , situated on the square of that name , and it was built in 1760 . |
| 14 | A large number of manuscript copies survive , some owned by lay people like John Kilham , a London merchant , and it was printed in 1494 at the command of Lady Margaret Tudor the mother of Henry Vll . |
| 15 | The loft ran the length of the house from front to back , and it was lit by two unshaded forty-watt bulbs . |
| 16 | Soviet leaders knew that war with America was unthinkable : NATO had been unable to match Soviet conventional strength in Europe because of the cost , but Dulles threatened ‘ massive retaliation ’ with nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet threat to US vital interests and it was understood by 1955 that an atomic exchange in Europe would devastate the continent . |
| 17 | Continuing his co-operating with our department , the owner contacted us and it was arranged for one of our Investigation officers to accompany him to Belgium in the guise of a mechanic . |
| 18 | For example , if the offline cycle start time was 29-FEB-1999 18:00 and the duration was 08:00 , and it was decided at 20:25 that offline must be stopped , then the offline duration time should be updated to 02:30 . |
| 19 | The rewriting of the syllabus began when Mary arrived and it was completed by 1980 . |
| 20 | Construction of this was begun in 1955 , and it was inaugurated in 1964 . |
| 21 | In March of 1888 negotiations with Mr Quarry were still continuing but by September of that year a proposed lease for purchase on the ground had been drawn up and it was signed on 10 December 1888 . |
| 22 | Cnut had a church built at the site of the battle , and it was consecrated in 1020 , at about the same time that he allowed the replacement of clerics by monks in St Edmund 's church at Bury . |
| 23 | In 1982 the Government announced the closure of the dockyard and it was divided into three parts . |
| 24 | The committee reported , and it was agreed on 24 May that a veterinary surgeon should be attached to each regiment of cavalry . |
| 25 | The Committee 's Chairman , Sir John Kingman , Vice-Chancellor of Bristol University and a mathematician by training , submitted his Report on 17 March 1988 , and it was published on 29 April . |
| 26 | They launched it in May 1984 ( and it was updated in 1989 ) . |