Example sentences of "[num] be [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The censuses of 1911 , 1951 , 1961 , and 1971 are basic sources on social class patterns of fertility . |
| 2 | He found that only two-thirds are true circles : the rest are flattened circles , ellipses and egg-shapes , all made with relatively simple geometric construction and clearly deliberate . |
| 3 | There is a clear-cut favourable benefit-to-risk ratio for thrombolytic treatment of the elderly , but in the USA , patients over the age of 75 are six times less likely to receive such therapy than are younger patients . |
| 4 | For example those over 75 are six times more likely to receive a home help than those aged 64 – 75 . |
| 5 | What is not clearly stated in the text but is easily deduced from the tables is that most of the proposed ‘ preventive ’ measures in these 39 cases/ 1000 are not really preventive at all but , rather , treatments carried out after birth : 15.7 are neonatal surgical procedures for congenital heart defects , pyloric stenosis , and inguinal hernia ; 15.4 are standard orthopaedic procedures for congenital hip dislocation and club foot ; and 1.8 are postnatal treatments for a variety of other conditions . |
| 6 | Under the 1980 Constitution an executive President is elected every five years with the 65-member unicameral National Assembly ( of which 53 members are directly elected by proportional representation and 12 are regional representatives ) . |
| 7 | Additional SmartStream products for 1993 are Financial Stream , released first quarter , followed by Logistics and Manufacturing Stream . |
| 8 | The major sources of information about what happened before 1985 are two Home Office reports . |
| 9 | Among the field of 300 are top amateurs from Britain , the Continent , New Zealand and the United States , and the competition for the trophy will be intense . |
| 10 | Chapters 1 and 2 are essential reading for understanding this chapter , and chapters 3 and 6 are also useful background . |
| 11 | Attention will now be focussed on correctly terminated ladder filters in which Z 1 and Z 2 are pure reactances , for practical approximations to these networks are widely used . |
| 12 | When Z 1 and Z 2 are pure reactances , is real and since it follows that The solution to equation ( 9.13 ) implies that or which means that there is no reduction in amplitude through a section of the filter . |
| 13 | Chapters 1 — 2 Are these sentences true ( T ) or false ( F ) ? |
| 14 | Students ' attitudes on university funding are to be studied by means of the following design : where S 1 and S 2 are random samples of students starting their second and first years respectively interviewed at time T 1 . |
| 15 | The UK Cable Television Association says that in February , the number of telephone exchange lines operated by cable companies rose 10,209 to a total of 126,687 : of these , 108,900 are residential lines , 17,787 are business connections . |
| 16 | Of these , 700 were of a banking or economic nature ; 129 were industrial visits and the remainder were social events . |
| 17 | Mind you , perhaps Ferrari should have taken more notice of Mario a lot earlier , but 1971 and 1972 were indifferent Ferrari years . |
| 18 | National made between 3,000 and 5,000 Tri-Plate instruments , and out of all those , less than 600 or 700 were round-neck Tri-Plate guitars , since square-necks were standard and round-necks were a custom order . |
| 19 | Of the 650 members in the parliament of 1305 , 240 were prelates and clerical proctors , 200 were burgess representatives , and 177 were lay barons and knights of the shire ; 33 — many of them clerics — were royal councillors and ministers . |
| 20 | Scrutiny of 1217 case records identified 569 broad cases of Alzheimer 's disease ( of which 317 were probable cases ) and 267 cases of multi-infarct dementia . |
| 21 | The latter has become the major occupation for women , for about one quarter of Latin America 's female workforce are maids — 25.5% of the female labour force in Bogotá in 1985 were domestic servants ( López & Pollack 1989 ) and 32 per cent of the total Brazilian female workforce are live-in maids ( Filet-Abreu Souza 1980 ) . |
| 22 | The applicants in the main proceedings observed in limine that ( a ) 36 of their 95 fishing vessels were part of the United Kingdom fleet during the period 1973 to 1978 ( the reference period for the allocation of the quotas which were introduced in January 1983 ) ; ( b ) 85 of those 95 vessels were registered and in use as British fishing vessels by January 1983 , and ( c ) of those 85 vessels , 42 had always been British flag vessels and 43 were ex-Spanish flag boats which had transferred to the British flag before 1983 . |
| 23 | His wages in 1780 were 20 shillings ( £1 ) a week and he asked for an increase to 2 guineas ( £2.10 ) a week . |
| 24 | Of the 19 LEAs involved , 12 were metropolitan boroughs and 7 were counties . |
| 25 | A study in 1971 found that of 132 political states only 12 were true nation-states in which everyone had the same native tongue . |
| 26 | Of these , 12 were secondary schools , 6 middle schools and 45 primaries . |
| 27 | The forty were sixty versts apart ( a versta equals roughly one kilometre ) and were a smaller version of the ostrog of wooden construction . |
| 28 | He points out that , of the sixty-six English clubs founded in the nineteenth century , forty were limited companies before 1900 , and there were a further nineteen by 1914 . |
| 29 | For a start , there is more power available and the larger speaker obviously lends a great deal to the 30 's overall performance . |
| 30 | In the 30 's fashionable furniture with a limed oak finish would have the oak converted to a silvery-grey finish before the grain was filled . |