Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 2 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 3 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 4 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 5 | Six miners have been trapped two thousand feet underground at Blisthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire . |
| 6 | The Faculty is one of the largest of its type in Europe , consisting of six Departments in which are located some 180 members of academic staff , each contributing to the strength of the Faculty with their scholarship and expertise . |
| 7 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 8 | His landlord Ali Shan has already been fined five hundred pounds for unlawful eviction by Oxford Magistrates . |
| 9 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 10 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 11 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
| 12 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 13 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 14 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
| 15 | He 's been fined three hundred pounds and banned from the dugout for a year for verbally abusing referee Sandy Roy during a recent match . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 17 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 18 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 19 | To give some idea of the scale of this operation , on the ‘ Core Site ’ alone , CCG are operating two 800 person canteens designed to serve 1,600 people in a space of 10 minutes . |
| 20 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 21 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 22 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 23 | Mr Soden , who 's been made redundant seven times , was given a conditional discharge by magistrates after pleading guilty . |
| 24 | Cos management are causing ninety five percent of all our problems so what are we going to do about them ? |
| 25 | Now if you 're drawing fifty one point four , |
| 26 | Well as you know er to be a basic rate taxpayer , you 're paying twenty five pence in the pound , apart from the er the new rate you know the first two thousand five hundred you get at twenty percent , which came in at the last budget . |
| 27 | We 're getting forty thousand dollars for the movie rights , and the serial rights — the first ones — are already sold in the States . ’ |
| 28 | What has happened in the current year is we 've started from no involvement with this particular group of clients , and building up where by the end of the year , our best estimate we 're approaching six hundred clients so then we have a commitment of providing either residential care or some care package which keeps them out of residential care . |
| 29 | they 're doing two thousand miles an hour . |
| 30 | Well the er point I 'd like to make is that as of last Saturday the er , erm , the Soviets were building a new submarine every forty days , they 're spending thirty five percent of the G N P . |