Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some individuals carry on for longer , and one has been heard to call 270 times without a break . |
| 2 | A COMPANY has been formed to run two sawmills which have been bought out by management from the previous owners . |
| 3 | The notes below are intended to consider three areas only and to be illustrative rather than prescriptive as an inflexible attitude towards fees can adversely affect the generation of new business . |
| 4 | The following 6 routines are designed to last 8 weeks each and they become progressively harder . |
| 5 | Twenty-five acts are booked to do seven minutes each and no one does a spot shorter than 15 . |
| 6 | The proceedings are expected to last 2 days . |
| 7 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 8 | This season the company has exported 640,000 tonnes of cereals and malt , while imports for the year are expected to exceed 200,000 tonnes . |
| 9 | Grade 7s and above are expected to give three months . |
| 10 | Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs . |
| 11 | Executives going on the course are expected to do 20–30 hours pre-work , in which they read the book and , with the help of questionnaires , assess themselves , their management styles and values . |
| 12 | And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start . |
| 13 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 14 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 15 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 16 | A new system has been installed to monitor 10 miles of underground drains at Wilton . |
| 17 | Many species can dive to depths of 200 metres ( 650 feet ) , and several , such as the Pacific variety of bottlenose , and Fraser 's dolphins , have been reported to reach 500 metres ( 1625 feet ) , in dives lasting over 8 minutes . |
| 18 | Mr Davison , who had four children and lived at Dulverton Avenue in Swindon , had been reported missing two weeks earlier by his girlfriend . |
| 19 | Women today are considered to have two choices — to work or to stay at home . |
| 20 | Some boats are reported to take 500–600 animals during a 3-month season . |
| 21 | It had been built to accommodate sixteen patients and in February of that year was occupied by twenty-one paupers , for whose maintenance the Board of Guardians had been responsible . |
| 22 | Often they are seen to have three ingredients : a cognitive ingredient ( what I believe , say , about pollution ) ; an affective ingredient ( how I feel about pollution ) ; and a behavioural ingredient ( what I am prepared to do about pollution ) . |
| 23 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 25 | A crude attempt had been made to erase three initials , but they were still plainly visible . |
| 26 | Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing . |
| 27 | The three AA batteries are said to give 40 hours of continues operation , with a Lithium cell providing back-up when it is turned off . |
| 28 | The topics of the modules are selected using two criteria . |
| 29 | Ah yes it could be that you 're expected to do thirty hours a week . |
| 30 | Ronni told her , ‘ I think you 're going to need six hours a day . ’ |