Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one is dated two days later , June 27th . |
| 2 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 3 | That 's right which was run two days a week for over for three and a half weeks . |
| 4 | Manchester United were convinced he was finished four years ago and were happy to let Villa take him — along with the personal problems which also contributed to his departure from Old Trafford . |
| 5 | Lot number one one four , Lot number one one four the kukri there 's the kukri showing Lot number one one four for sixty pounds , at sixty , sixty five pounds , at seventy , seventy five , eighty is offered eighty five , ninety I 'm offered ninety pounds , any more at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , if you 're all finished , at ninety pounds . |
| 6 | That one being drawn twenty six of November what 's that one , that 's Park School . |
| 7 | Sir John Throckmorton , Chief Justice of Chester , was accused by the Privy Council of slackness and greed ; and in 1579 he was fined 1,000 marks in Star Chamber for forging a legal document . |
| 8 | As he was not destitute he was charged 10.50 guilders a fortnight , all in . |
| 9 | Er Lot number three Lot number three the Canton trays there we are there we 've got a sample showing for you Lot number three , there are seven of them in the Lot all seven of them for a hundred and fifty pounds at one hundred and fifty , sixty , seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty , forty , sixty two eighty I 'm offered two hundred and eighty pounds you 're on three hundred for you sir three hun three twenty three fifty , three eighty go to four hundred four twenty four fifty four eighty five hundred and fifty and you bet against you both now five hundred and fifty is offered against you both now , five fifty five hundred and fifty pounds . |
| 10 | In 1820 he was granted 190 acres of land on the waterfront in a location which was , at that time , outside Sydney . |
| 11 | Alcuin was also critical of the new Northumbrian king , Eardwulf , but when Eardwulf was driven out of his kingdom in 806 he was restored two years later through the intervention of Charlemagne and the pope ( see above , p. 157 ) , a clear enough demonstration of the continued maintenance of Northumbria at this time as a Carolingian sphere of influence . |
| 12 | During 1696 he was appointed one of the commissioners to receive subscriptions for a land bank , but the subscription failed ; and in 1697 he was made one of the trustees for circulating exchequer bills . |
| 13 | He took out his first two engine patents in 1886 , and having progressively improved the design to give more complete combustion and avoid pre-ignition , in 1890 he was granted two patents for a hot-bulb oil engine , two years before Rudolf Diesel 's first English patent for his compression-ignition oil engine . |
| 14 | In March 1679 he was appointed one of the five commissioners who replaced Danby at the Treasury , an appointment he held until his death . |
| 15 | Marguerite Maury was totally dedicated to her work , and in 1962 and 1967 she was awarded two international prizes for her research into essential oils and cosmetology . |
| 16 | In 1990 they were halted 90 miles from the Pole by wide stretches of open water.Having already travelled more than 500 miles from their starting point in Siberia , they set a record anyway for the longest unsupported polar journey.Then Sir Ranulph abandoned the polar cold for the desert heat , to find Ubar , before again teaming up with Dr Stroud for this winter 's headline-making trek to the South Pole , breaking their own record for the longest unsupported polar journey ever made.They returned in February and Sir Ranulph still can not tolerate running shoes on his frost-bitten feet , to train for his next expedition — ‘ another hot one . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm just surprised it 's taken two weeks . ’ |
| 18 | In 1653 he was appointed one of the commissioners for propagating the gospel in northern counties . |
| 19 | In December 1675 he was appointed one of the commissioners of the customs : two years later he was also made a commissioner to enquire into abuses in the mint . |