Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the reconstructed Berlin Wall where they are reconciled 34 years later , the crowd will swell to 500 . |
| 2 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 3 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 4 | Over in Ireland Jim Dreaper gave Carvill 's Hill his seasonal debut in the Durkan Brothers International Punchestown Chase , where he was beaten three lengths by last season 's Irish Grand National winner Maid Of Money , who was receiving 5lb and started favourite . |
| 5 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 6 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 7 | He possessed a house in Twickenham in addition to his official residence in the palace of Westminster , but his principal seat was in Eydon , Northamptonshire , where he was buried 8 June 1691 . |
| 8 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 9 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 10 | , Matthew ( 1753–1781 ) , engineer and inventor , was born at 3 Narrow Wine Street , Bristol , where he was baptized 18 November 1753 , the son of Mary and William Wasbrough , originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker , who was in partnership with Roger Rice in a brass-founding and clock-making business in Narrow Wine Street . |
| 11 | Yes , sorry , you could say it again , is sent on line seven , or whatever is numbered seven . |
| 12 | When our group raised the issues of travellers with one of the DHSS offices here we were told that everyone is allowed two weeks holidays every year . |
| 13 | He asked that she be given six months ' grace at Althorp so she could adapt to life without him . |
| 14 | I expect the Establishment Division refused to supply her with a tape-recorder ( and for good reason , one might think ) , so she 's brought one of her children 's instead . |
| 15 | Yes , things that we were told 20 years ago that were perfectly safe , it 's now being proved that they 're not safe . |
| 16 | Does the Secretary of State realise that we were promised 20 years ago that after 20 years the toll would be abolished ? |
| 17 | His band play only once a month , although they 're offered 15,000 roubles per night . |
| 18 | Champions are always equipped in exactly the same way as the rest of the unit , except that they are permitted one magic item in addition . |
| 19 | Bosses are always equipped exactly as the rest of the unit , except that they are permitted one magic item in addition . |
| 20 | Champions are always equipped exactly like the rest of the unit , except that they are permitted one magic item in addition . |
| 21 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , during the recent debate on the Asylum Bill , our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary pointed out that about 30,000 people are registered as asylum seekers , without their families , and that they are allowed six months ' benefit immediately upon registering as asylum seekers ? |
| 22 | To take the latter point first , if my hon. Friend looks at many , perhaps all , of the Maxwell pension fund trustee bodies , he will find that they were split 50 : 50 — there was employee representation . |
| 23 | He said the intention was that beds in intensive care units were managed so that they were occupied 70 per cent of the time , leaving a 30 per cent capacity to take emergency cases , such as road accident victims . |
| 24 | Although he was born seventy-one years ago in New York , not Greece , Theodoros Stamos feels the pull of his Greek heritage with the force of the tides in the wine-dark sea . |
| 25 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 26 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 27 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |
| 28 | And I 'm bid one hundred and sixty this time . |
| 29 | And I 'm bid seventy two . |
| 30 | Lot number forty three Lot forty three a snuff-bottle there it is and I 'm offered two hundred for this one , and twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty for you sir , three hundred pounds , going on ? |