Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had n't been off long , perhaps been off three or four weeks , I I would say . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says . |
| 3 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 4 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 5 | The review that we undertook of the calls shows that the peak demands in are between eight A M and twelve midnight , so the four officers will work a sixteen hour duty scheme er of eight till four , four til midnight , and then the cover between midnight and A M will come fr eight A M will come from as it does at present . |
| 6 | And it would only be for one night . |
| 7 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 8 | ‘ There are only two places you can cross from coast-to-coast and one route takes 14 days , so Fusil 's route could only be in one place . ’ |
| 9 | It seems to me that the new settlement if my analysis is correct can only be in one of those two areas , which does n't seem to me to be a very sensible way of proceeding . |
| 10 | Well I reckoned up this morning we reckoned it 'll perhaps be at fifty two , but we were wrong were n't we ? |
| 11 | The casket alone is worth 250 GCs . |
| 12 | Sucralose might never have been discovered had it not been for two Tate & Lyle scientists who deployed a basic research technique — they tasted it . |
| 13 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 14 | Hardwick 's involvement might have ended there , if it had not been for one of the tradesmen , who addressed a petition to the Company nine months later : his original estimate of £2,514 18 1¼d had left him bearing a loss of £266 6 3¾d . |
| 15 | Had it not been for one other factor , it seems likely that the combined pressures upon English both from inside and outside the discipline might well have caused it to accommodate itself more directly to the service of " vocationalism " , and " social responsibility " , and thus the needs of interdisciplinary and applied work . |
| 16 | Tribunals might well have continued to develop without any critical analysis of their impact on the administration of justice , had it not been for one of those incidents of poor administration whose wider implications can not be ignored . |
| 17 | Oddly enough I may never have had an operational tour had it not been for one of these fellow travellers . |
| 18 | After 1983 , the ‘ frontiers of the state ’ were , in this respect at least , rolled back as they had not been since 1945 . |
| 19 | The impact has not been in one direction only : the political culture has served to shape political perceptions and actions , and hence to influence the nation 's political history . |
| 20 | I , I 've not been near one , I would n't know but you have to stand next to them to get an effect , to kn know how big they are . |
| 21 | Large groups of dolphins are mixed in age and sex , but smaller groups generally are of three types : a nuclear group , comprising a single adult male and female ; a nursery group , with a number of adult females and young ; and a bachelor group , with adult and young males . |
| 22 | Some already been down four weeks , five weeks six weeks . |
| 23 | At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ? |
| 24 | We 'll soon be on one way . |
| 25 | More than a third of the British — some 14 million — will soon be aged 50 or over . |
| 26 | And it wo n't be for the whole of a c of a company 's range , it 'll just be for one specific product at a time . |
| 27 | Well just be in one , er sort of the side or something do you know what I mean ? |
| 28 | The lifetime of workstations will generally be between three and five years . |
| 29 | C1 was to be a two-year course for 16-plus school-leavers with suitable qualifications , leading to a certificate or diploma comparable in status to an OND , while C2 would normally be of two years ' duration and would be for students not so highly qualified or well-motivated as those taking C1 courses . |
| 30 | It will normally be for four weeks from the time when you start to work under the new contract . |