Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [det] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If they are given another four or five years to bed in , no Government would dare to reverse them , any more than Labour could take back council houses from their new owners , or renationalise privatised industry . |
| 2 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 3 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 4 | Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey . |
| 5 | If the young daughters of women with gonorrhoea are examined some 5 per cent will be found to be suffering from a gonococcal vulva-vaginitis . |
| 6 | At present , there are no arrangements to open Miró 's studio , in which are stacked some thirty boldly brushed but unfinished canvases upon which the artist was working at his end of his career . |
| 7 | He accused ‘ powers which are situated many thousands of kilometres from this region ’ of having ‘ concentrated a naval armada ’ in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean and of ‘ intensively building up armaments , expanding the network of their military bases and pressuring and threatening small countries that do not follow their lead ’ . |
| 8 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 9 | The Faculty is one of the largest of its type in Europe , consisting of six Departments in which are located some 180 members of academic staff , each contributing to the strength of the Faculty with their scholarship and expertise . |
| 10 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 11 | They had been built many hundreds of years ago by the people who lived on the moor . |
| 12 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 13 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 14 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 15 | Right next question is the one where you 're given these two complex numbers , and you 're asked to show the , the modules of Z one squared is two times the modules of Z two squared . |
| 16 | They 're cheating these two ! |
| 17 | any way I got to the last one and it was two combinations combined together , so you 've got two separate combinations to do and then you 're to put those two together in with a different rule |
| 18 | When you 're having another one of those parties I read about in the Sport . |
| 19 | And you 're saying that one golf course I could be there for two or three weeks ? |
| 20 | We 're combining these two ideas in fact , this would make a very good campaign for a local church would n't it , where people would then be doing both all directing at one supermarket . |
| 21 | If you get a forty percent turn out in England and Wales , we 're talking many millions of voters . |
| 22 | Up there she 's got no disrespect , somebody who 's not quite as bright as they might be er and she 's not working overtime as they would do here if they got behind , they 're working half eight to half four is it Ray ? |
| 23 | And Stefan , try to write up the Luxembourg so that the emphasis is on that and it detracts from the fact that we 're resurrecting those three tired old numbers we 've so often done before . |
| 24 | But I 've been offered several million for it . |
| 25 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 26 | Detectives are linking all three attacks to the same man . |
| 27 | The move has been welcomed by environmentalists , but BNFL and trade unions say the delays are threatening several thousand jobs of employees and contractors . |
| 28 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 29 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 30 | If an error occurs the user will be given another two opportunities to correct the situation ; if the third attempt is also unsuccessful , the user will be returned immediately to VMS . |