Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chinese authorities are building a 90 megawatt plant on the Yarlung River , 2,600 foot below the Yamdrok Tso lake , with water falling through four tunnels drilled through the Gambala mountains to power the turbines . |
| 2 | Firstly , they are given a two month course covering most aspects and procedures of aircraft accident investigation , after which they spend several months assisting experienced investigators in the field until they are sent out , with full responsibility for their particular side of the investigation ( i.e. operations or engineering ) , on one of the many minor accidents to private or club aircraft . |
| 3 | If a team arrives at the finish without a bale or only some semblance of one , they are given a ten minute time penalty . |
| 4 | posts are erected every hundred metres , right ? |
| 5 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 6 | Let's assume we are producing a three column newsletter and we have already decided to use 10 point Palatino as our typeface . |
| 7 | Those who bought the ‘ calls ’ ( the right to buy the shares ) are nursing a 65 p.c. loss . |
| 8 | They are targeting the 4,000 who owe more than £1,000 in rent . |
| 9 | Remember , you are knitting the two thicknesses of the yarn on each stitch , so allowance must be made for the stitch size . |
| 10 | On 9 June the Rev. Ernest Cairnduff and some of our helpers from other Churches are to attend the 11 0'clock Service . |
| 11 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 12 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 13 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 14 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 15 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 16 | And we 've just heard that the school has been given a three month reprieve . |
| 17 | Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract . |
| 18 | He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain . |
| 19 | Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford . |
| 20 | Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford . |
| 21 | In the midst of the proceedings , when they have already been given the Ten Commandments and much besides , and Moses is on the summit of Sinai receiving more torah to relay to them , they rebel . |
| 22 | A man who strangled his so-called nagging wife has been given an eighteen month suspended sentence at the Old Bailey . |
| 23 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 24 | Service cars are repainted every three to four years , but the fierce weather conditions can ruin a livery in one season . |
| 25 | For example , one of the things I 've been doing today is submitting titles for Waterstones ’ summer reading promotion ; they are sponsoring a 32 page supplement in Elle , and are doing a run-on . |
| 26 | Even as early as the second stage of imprisonment conjugal visits are permitted every fifteen days . |
| 27 | I am rebuilding a 1965 LWB Safari IIA and have opted to exchange the 2.25 for a V8 . |
| 28 | I am rebuilding a 1955 Series 1 and would like to know more about it please . |
| 29 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 30 | And a good lesson was learnt — always look before you reverse , especially when you are driving a 30 cwt. truck . |