Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | unc Note : We can not add together such terms as 3c + 3a because it would be like adding 3 cars to 3 apples and getting 6 apple cars ! |
2 | It would be like having three people against us instead of two . ’ |
3 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
4 | The Worthing backs then showed how dangerous they could be by scoring two tries , but Alton were too far in front to be caught . |
5 | Yeah , what I like about , what I liked about them was that they were dead flat like , you know if you , imagine it a sweet the weight for a sweet were from say ten ounces to twenty kilos |
6 | Homosexual scenes — men were aroused more by watching two women making love than women were at watching two men . |
7 | As a footnote to the Assembly and Convention periods , it is worth making two points about the Democratic Unionists . |
8 | Against this liberal orthodoxy it is worth making two points . |
9 | The camera work can be kept as simple as it is for recording one person giving a talk — it can stay on the interviewee . |
10 | THE governing body of world football , FIFA , is considering awarding three points for a win in next year 's group matches in the World Cup finals to reward attacking play . |
11 | Jip and Zab 's father claims that computer logic , unlike human logic , ‘ ca n't cope with a word used in a figurative sense , or with humour , which depends on wordplay , which is like assigning two values to a character ’ ( 87 ) . |
12 | It 's like having one arm out of action . |
13 | It 's like having two husbands now I 'm under pressure from Sugden as well . |
14 | This is because the way that these patterns are read is by knitting two rows of each colour , starting with colour one , then colour two , then colour three before moving on to the next line of the double length pattern . |
15 | It 's difficult to describe the sound the kneecap made — it was like banging two cricket bats together |
16 | She grew up with eight brothers , ’ which was like having nine fathers really , including my real father They were so bossy ’ . |