Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 2 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 3 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 4 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 5 | In John Hart 's case , his appeal to the House of Lords against the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal would have been dismissed by four to one , had proceedings as related in Hansard not been allowed as evidence . |
| 6 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 7 | More than 1,100 HIV-positive patients are enrolled in five independent phase I trials and three independent phase II trials with gp160 with up to 4 years of follow-up . |
| 8 | The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies . |
| 9 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 10 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 11 | Since our ‘ dependent ’ variable is the length in days of the first spell of registered unemployment , all the income variables are calculated as one seventh of the weekly rates . |
| 12 | Parts of a day are calculated as one day . |
| 13 | At first sight , this could turn out to be the bargain of the century , because the asset-values are calculated on 1991 prices , even though Russian prices rose by a vertiginous 2,600% during 1992 . |
| 14 | These payments are calculated on 8.75 per cent of the sales value of production from 8.62608 per cent of the Ninian field [ 50 per cent of the Group 's interest in the field ] after deducting Government royalties and operating costs incurred in extracting the oil and conveying and treating it at Sullom Voe . |
| 15 | YOUR ACCOMMODATION — prices are calculated for one of the following arrangements and this is indicated at the foot of each Club description . |
| 16 | Because the concern here is with general trends and not annual variations , the rates are calculated for five year blocks . |
| 17 | Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside . |
| 18 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 19 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 20 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 21 | Few mistakes are admitted to , and events which do n't reflect well upon him , like the highly dramatic resignations of the Navy Minister and chief of Naval Staff in protest at his decision to scrap aircraft carriers , are dismissed in two illuminating sentences . |
| 22 | While such mentalistic constructions may sound implausible at first sight , they are justified in three ways . |
| 23 | Members of the cast are assigned to one of two completely different speaker systems depending on the particular qualities of their voice . |
| 24 | Participants are assigned to one of the College 's Faculty Groups . |
| 25 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 26 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 27 | An initial allowance of 20% will apply for expenditure on new industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 28 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 29 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
| 30 | Staff in the information office told me that the train had been delayed until 18.15 . |