Example sentences of "[prep] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northern Ireland 's World Cup downfall really started with that opening match against the Lithuanians at Windsor Park in April ‘ 92 when , after being two goals ahead , they went walkabout and Lithuania hit back to draw . |
| 2 | ‘ When you look at our results , the deflected goals we have had against CSKA and Brugge , and the way we fought back after being two goals down to Marseille , nothing holds any fears for us . ’ |
| 3 | In April 1770 he was again arrested for debt , and this time wrote to an unknown friend : ‘ After being six times arrested : nine times in a spunging house ; and three times in the Fleet-prison , I am at least happily arrived at the King 's Bench [ Prison ] ’ . |
| 4 | ( In 1971 , Arsenal won the Double after being six points behind leaders Leeds United at the time of the semi-final . ) |
| 5 | she 's not going to this year , she 's erm , in Ruxley there , there was a little pot of seed that had been sowed and they were ready for pricking out , and er one little pot I think was ninety eight P , but there must of been fifty plants in there easily |
| 6 | Yeah , because it should of been fifteen pounds a night and we got it for ten |
| 7 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 8 | The Midland Bank , as the major sponsor , is paying £20,000 for the privilege of being two corners in the game , and having its name and logo on all the notes used in the game . |
| 9 | In a few specimens this papillae may be partially divided giving the appearance of being two papillae . |
| 10 | Both have been designed to meet fully the requirements a set out by the County Council and we 're quite happy , we can actually meet that requirement of being one kilometre from Flaxton , in fact we greatly exceed that distance , despite and that is a on the design of a larger new settlement than fourteen hundred dwellings . |
| 11 | Barthes 's was a very modern mind but he would have liked the idea of being one day accepted into this tiny pantheon of local literary notables . |
| 12 | In a sense we were still in the aftermath of being one person . |
| 13 | Had it been accepted , Israel 's population would be one-third Palestinian Arab today , with the prospect of being one-half Arab by the year 2020 , and the Israeli government would already be facing a demographic crisis within the State of Israel which is currently still some thirty years away . |
| 14 | But when it was found that I was twenty days short of being twenty-one years older than Richard , legal adoption was ruled out . |
| 15 | Despite being one game behind , Speelman seems to have recovered from his hesitant start to the match . |
| 16 | Despite being four months behind schedule , Butterfly Child 's ‘ Juice ’ / ‘ Man And Woman ’ 45 ( originally planned for release in May ) will be followed by . |
| 17 | It is better to judge him on his reappearance run at Chepstow when , despite being 11 kilos overweight , according to trainer Martin Pipe , he easily disposed of Run And Skip , with Little Polveir beaten out of sight . |
| 18 | Grimsby , despite being two goals down , struggled to change their pattern of play . |
| 19 | His young wife went with him despite being three months pregnant . |
| 20 | The quartets are well worth getting to know and the performances by the Fitzwilliam Quartet , despite being 15 years old , still seem to reach the heart of the composer 's intentions . |
| 21 | A total of is 463 quintals [ 2546 tonnes ] of grain was distributed , and 15 229 items of clothing given away . ’ |
| 22 | , centre , with workmate , right , and ( retired ) who worked together for most of 's 20 years at . |
| 23 | All that the right hon. Gentleman could come up with were three proposals . |
| 24 | And in recent years it is impossible not to see that Dale Thomas ' name occurs more than others , including being five times the Club Champion — winning on one occasion after a 60-hole match ! |
| 25 | You can do without carpet but you 've got to have somewhere to sit and the least you can make do with is one sofa or two good chairs . |
| 26 | But having prepared the tank to ensure the best possible water quality and filters that have a head start , the maximum stock to begin with is two fish ( though arguably this could mean two 3″ Barbs or a shoal of six 1″ Tetras . |
| 27 | Finding a foreigner to change money with was one way of obtaining the necessary dollars or changing money on the black market , a very expensive option . |
| 28 | It 's got ta be one point two five if that 's over there . |
| 29 | A few years ago , I wrote expressing my concern that the village of West Linton , Peeblesshire , had ‘ moved ’ from being 18 miles outside the GPO in Edinburgh to 16 and then to 14 miles . |
| 30 | I mean , some people have kind of butterfly minds , with butterfly behaviour , and they switch from being one type of person or another type of person almost minute by minute . |