Example sentences of "[verb] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We moved to Somerset and I saw nothing of Matt for — I do n't know — it must 've been sixteen years I suppose . |
| 2 | It must 've been fifteen foot at least up in the air teetering on a top branch . |
| 3 | I think , I think the problem with this act in my view is that it would 've been one thing to say to people , right from here on in , we 're going to do it like this . |
| 4 | now there , there must 've been one reason why you chose Friends Provident . |
| 5 | At present being excavated are two houses in the centre of the settlement . |
| 6 | Typically , the figurines which they made are 20 centimetres high and depict worshippers in attitudes of adoration , or reclining goats , or cattle . |
| 7 | The shot sizes given are one example only . |
| 8 | Also included are four overbridges , a four-way interchange at the B722 Eaglesfield Junction and a bridge over the London-Glasgow railway . |
| 9 | Included are 77 pianos ( 1745–1856 ) , six harpsichords ( 1711–89 ) and one clavichord ( 1775 ) . |
| 10 | Included are three works by Martin Johnson Heade , two by Albert Bierstadt , two by Sanford Robinson Gifford , and examples by Frederic Edwin Church , George Inness , John F. Kensett , Jasper Cropsey , Eastman Johnson , William Francis Edmonds , John Califano , Seymour Guy and Edward Henry Potthast . |
| 11 | Also included are three bibliographies , catalogues raisonnes of individual artists , exhibitions held in Italy and books on Italian publishers and printers . |
| 12 | The membership of an executive , has been one member from each county . |
| 13 | Since this paper was written , however , there has been one case in English law worth noting . |
| 14 | There has been one crash at Crowfield , it was on Anglia News . |
| 15 | The highest priced work is the leaf from the Arenberg Psalter with illuminations on both sides , for which he paid about $520,000 in 1990 , admitting that he has been one factor in the rise in prices in single sheet miniatures at auction : ‘ Prices have climbed enormously because museum directors realise more and more that the history of painting before 1450 , and even into the sixteenth-century is to a very large extent found in illuminated manuscripts ’ . |
| 16 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 17 | Security has been tight at the court , but there has been one threat against a juror , a bomb threat against the judge and now the firebombing directed at a key witness . |
| 18 | There has been one miracle already and that has been the hand put back on . ’ |
| 19 | This has been one reason for the increasing prominence of work groups at local level often demanding greater autonomy and a more active role in policy formulation than that provided by the official union structure . |
| 20 | Excessive schedule length has been one reason for the use of the faceted approach in updating major schemes . |
| 21 | Lack of public awareness has been one reason for the spread of the killer disease . |
| 22 | ‘ Autumn is my season , twilight is my hour and all my life has been one chain of related twilights ’ , he has written . |
| 23 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 24 | For year two , there has been one death so far . |
| 25 | Reducing prices to under £10 has been one method . |
| 26 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 27 | IT HAS been two years since sultry singer Sade was last in the spotlight . |
| 28 | The average turnround for a passport application in the last year has been six working days . |
| 29 | It has been six weeks , almost , but the friendly hot flush fills me to the top of my head and it is beautiful . |
| 30 | If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded . |