Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] [n mass] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end the fish food business , which was mainly trout food was sold to the Swedish Company in 1982 and the farm feed business to 's of Burston in 1984 . |
| 2 | There were only 30m plastic cards in circulation in 1979 — including cheque , credit and cash withdrawal cards — whereas now there are 100m cards in use . |
| 3 | There 's also Data Integrity 's Systems Perils Policy , available from any Lloyds broker , for bolting the stable door after the horse has bolted . |
| 4 | Shannon ( 1951 ) demonstrated that there is over 50% redundancy in the English language by investigating the ability of readers to predict what letters were missing from words . |
| 5 | At high-enough frequencies to satisfy , there is virtually 100% transmission and negligible phase shift . |
| 6 | This being so , there is virtually 100% transmission of each Fourier component of the signal with each component suffering a phase shift of β per section , where β is given by equation ( 9.23 ) or ( 9.27 ) . |
| 7 | At the time of the Spanish contact , there was about 90% forest cover and the population was about half a million ; by 1945 , the forest cover was some 75% and the population 19 million ; by 1976 , the cover was down to 38% and by 1980 27% and that partly disturbed . |
| 8 | In 1970 there was only $7 billion-worth of high-yield bonds outstanding , most of them originally issued as top-notch debt but later downgraded by rating agencies and the market . |
| 9 | They 're basically 55mm diameter Street Bones . |
| 10 | It 's not sales technique until he actually gets the appointment , he ca n't present anything . |
| 11 | It is n't means testing generates the poverty trap , it is the benefits that generates the poverty trap . |
| 12 | When the outburst comes it is very effective.The lyricism of Tennyson 's poetry is magnificent . |
| 13 | Unfortunately for those who are left-handed , a MouseMan Cordless for them is not available.By comparison the receiver unit is a modestly styled compact box with a conventional 9-pin D-type serial lead . |
| 14 | His alternatives are predictably bleak : ‘ Much of what is now sheep country could profitably be reforested with nut-trees ’ ( 1977 : 60 ) . |