Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soldiers guard a three-mile section of the ‘ Hell 's Highway ’ to the popular Natal coastline where 70 motorists have been stoned and shot at . |
| 2 | During the summer a fleet under Admiral Byng was despatched to keep watch on the Channel ports and early in September it appeared off Le Havre , where , Lord Stair had reported , some seven or eight ships had been hired under a false name and loaded with 10,000 ‘ stand of arms ’ , i.e. muskets and ammunition sufficient for that number of men . |
| 3 | Members of the Cheshire Regiment were ready to enter Karaula , where 45 people had been wounded by Serbian shelling , said a spokesman for the United Nations protection force . |
| 4 | This is shown in sample 2 , where six stitches have been used , but you can see nine stitches just as easily according to yarn and tension . |
| 5 | Two or three chicks surviving is about average for wild birds . |
| 6 | well , yes sh yes well , this , well this was only the highlights unless the last two or three , no the last two or three parts have been live . |
| 7 | Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends . |
| 8 | Much of the publicity that drug usage has received over the last two or three years has been counter-productive . |
| 9 | Some of the items on my own agenda for spiritual direction over the past two or three years have been : lifestyle — being overbusy and needing to rediscover a rhythm where prayer finds its right place alongside a full teaching and pastoral ministry ; bereavement and particular aspects of my mother 's death ; reading ; pain in prayer ; spiritual warfare ; a major decision . |
| 10 | The last two or three years have been a testing time for the 180 people who work at Angered . |
| 11 | Situated on a comer opposite the church , one could survey much of Sasbach from its little courtyard where three tables had been set out under three chestnut trees . |
| 12 | Devices where the units can assume any one of three or ten states have been proposed but rarely implemented : for the ternary ( 3-state ) case see Knuth ( 1969 , pp. 173–5 ) . |
| 13 | The paint was brushed on , rubbed down , another coat , another rub , until perhaps ten or twelve coats had been applied to give what can only be described as a wonderful finish . |
| 14 | Already , he knew that his chances of living through the next four or five weeks had been severely curtailed . |
| 15 | Well I do n't think there 's any doubt about it , I mean our improvement over the last erm four or five weeks has been absolutely tremendous . |
| 16 | It all started , she explains , when her husband Robert was offered a voluntary posting on the Cambridge charity 's dental care programme in Dharamsala in the foothills of the Himalayas , where 15,000 Tibetans have been living in exile since the Chinese invaded their country . |
| 17 | You will then travel on to the world famous Keukenhof Gardens , where 65 acres have been landscaped to present a picture of unforgettable beauty . |
| 18 | Although I am sure that these remarks will apply to all constituencies in the north of Ireland , I can judge only what is happening in the one that I know best , which is my own , where 3,344 houses have been deemed ’ unfit ’ , as the Minister confirmed to me in a written answer in 1988 . |
| 19 | However , one or two changes have been made since inheritance tax was introduced which could have important implications for anyone planning to pass on gift s with a capital value . |
| 20 | It is murmured that one or two departments have been given a warning shot across the bows : ‘ improve , or you may sink without trace ’ . |
| 21 | One or two students have been avidly reading Chomsky , but since we were certainly not anticipating any sort of demand for theoretical work , we have scarcely no books on the subject to offer them . |
| 22 | It is true one or two errors have been noticeable recently in the discharging of his duties , but these are in every case very trivial in nature . ’ |
| 23 | Government forces have been known to poison water sources used for drinking and irrigation , However , in some of the better established areas , self.sufficiency in one or two crops has been reached : maize in Guazapa , beans in Usulutan , sugar and rice in Morazan . |
| 24 | One or two tribes have been given much more time on the radio than others . |
| 25 | Not all the clergy and all the religious orders have been actively engaged in the pursuit of this ideal , but one or two orders have been ; for example , the Christian Brothers are devoted to the ideals of a Christian and catholic education , and supporters of the concept of a nation dedicated to God and at the same time distinctly Irish . |
| 26 | I think about 10 or 20 buildings have been damaged . |
| 27 | On Jan. 27 Radio Rwanda reported that 120 rebels had been killed in fighting in the Kinigi region . |
| 28 | Detentions of FIS activists and supporters had meanwhile begun , with the FIS claiming on Jan. 17 that 500 people had been detained as they attended Friday prayers . |
| 29 | Rioting was reported in the ensuing days in Yaoundé , Douala and Bafoussam , and news agency reports quoted an official of the SDF as saying on Nov. 1 that 500 people had been arrested in Bamenda , and that many had been subjected to beatings . |
| 30 | Claiming that 180 soldiers had been killed or wounded in the attacks , the FMLN said that its offensive had been launched because of the " total immunity that exists in this country for members of the armed forces who violate human rights " , and to counter the military 's " triumphalist and all-powerful " attitude to the current peace process . |