Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am virtually unemployable as I am rarely in one place for more than two weeks . |
| 2 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 3 | There was continued sniping about the March performance , with Rover , whose market share was down to less than 10 p.c. , claiming sales would have been down by 20 p.c. were it not for Ford ‘ buying market share ’ . |
| 4 | Here I am all in one piece if tiny pock-marked from a flying bottle , and trying to settle down and see the war out without firing a shot . |
| 5 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 6 | Given that there are only about 50–100 technology ‘ providers ’ in the UK , whereas there are some 50,000 or more companies who might benefit , the challenge is enormous . |
| 7 | I am not for one moment suggesting that you could do such a thing yourself because I think you would do it with more style and use a magnum of champagne . |
| 8 | These visits are generally about one week long which gives the employee and spouse a reasonable length of time to find accommodation and get a feel for the country . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , all the farmer 's eggs are not in one basket and there is a much better mix of crops and livestock . |
| 10 | You 're still in one piece . |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon they 'll just be relieved to see you 're still in one piece . ’ |
| 12 | Well , you look as though you 're still in one piece after the interrogation , ’ she remarked . |
| 13 | They 're there for one reason and one reason only I know , cos I 've been involved in fox hunting , I 've shot and fished but I 'll tell you something , was also trained to hunt humans , going back many years ago , when I was in the Falkland Islands training for the event that happened eventually . |
| 14 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 15 | Is it not possible that we apprehend them as feelings of hotness and coldness because the feelings are usually of one sort when our bodies are hot , and of another sort when our bodies are cold ? |
| 16 | To mention only the most general one , the non-causal connections asserted within science are of many diverse kinds , and they are usually in one way or another partial . |
| 17 | For the next couple of years at least the shares will be supported only by assets , which despite the fall in values are still worth 25 p.c. more than the share price . |
| 18 | The bales that are still in one piece are piled on to a wagon as they are brought in . |
| 19 | It is understood there are up to 500 peregrine falcons in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | There are up to 8 rugose arm spines which are invested with thickened skin . |
| 21 | Dividend yields on expected 1992 earnings are up to 3.8 p.c. , compared with an average 3 p.c. over the last seven years and the economy can count on a resilient currency , low wage claims and an expected 40 p.c. fall in the trade deficit this year . |
| 22 | Initial charges are up to 5 p.c. depending which of the 14 underlying funds are chosen . |
| 23 | The company said sales so far this year are up by 16 p.c. and it is forecasting a further profit rise in 1992 . |
| 24 | That 's you know it was all purely hypothetical the figures they produced but er they were comparing it to what we had pr previously been producing we all sort of realized that for a set production figure we could have been up to forty pound worse off , per week . |
| 25 | Compiled versions of OSF/1 release 1.1K — integrated kernel — are out on three reference platforms , Intel Corp 's 80386-based 302 , Digital 's MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based DECstation 3100 and Encore Computer 's National Semiconductor-based Multimax . |
| 26 | She had re-established contact with her friends and had been out on one occasion in the previous week . |
| 27 | If you look back at any year you only get ten or 20 good records and they 're not likely to be all in one week . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I seem to be all in one piece , Nurse — sorry , Sister . |
| 29 | But it 's good to be all in one piece again . ’ |
| 30 | But then they had realized that that would mean their Dad was all alone and so they had prayed again , that they could all be together in one place or the other . |