Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] a [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , they are given a two month course covering most aspects and procedures of aircraft accident investigation , after which they spend several months assisting experienced investigators in the field until they are sent out , with full responsibility for their particular side of the investigation ( i.e. operations or engineering ) , on one of the many minor accidents to private or club aircraft . |
| 2 | If a team arrives at the finish without a bale or only some semblance of one , they are given a ten minute time penalty . |
| 3 | I mean I had no idea that by doing ‘ I left no ring with her ’ by Viola I was doing something that must have been heard a hundred times that day — I had no idea . |
| 4 | THE bogus doctor who ran clinics in Ulster has been given a two week reprieve before she knows her fate . |
| 5 | sort of been given a hundred pound upstairs . |
| 6 | The club 's former accountant Vince Farrar has been given a six months suspended sentence . |
| 7 | Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract . |
| 8 | And we 've just heard that the school has been given a three month reprieve . |
| 9 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 10 | A woman who claims to be a leading sheep breeder has been fined a thousand pounds for cruelty . |
| 11 | It must have been said a thousand times in angling literature that location is the key to success and in zander fishing this was never more so . |
| 12 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 13 | Shareholders are offered a one-for-three rights issue at 110p to raise £152million , but Corporate Partners will take up any shares not subscribed to . |
| 14 | The man called ‘ the great white hope ’ of heavyweight boxing by the American media and boxing fans , has been offered a 50–50 split of the estimated 25 to 30 million dollars the fight would gross by Lewis ' manager Frank Maloney . |
| 15 | JON SMITH , head of First Artist Corporation , has been offered a five year contract by the FA to help organise the new England players ’ pool . |
| 16 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |
| 17 | ‘ Their deaths shall be avenged a thousand times ! ’ |
| 18 | Lot number eight Lot eight there we are there it is showing to you , Lot number eight and I 'm offered a hundred pounds to start me on it , one hundred pounds and ten , twenty , one hundred and twenty pounds at a hundred and twenty pounds all s all done at one twenty , one thirty , forty a hundred and forty pounds selling for one hundred and forty pounds , any more at one hundred and forty pounds . |
| 19 | Lot number thirty five Lot number thirty five there we are , there it is showing , Lot number thirty five , eighty pounds for this one , at eighty , eighty five , ninety , ninety five , one hundred is offered I 'm offered a hundred pounds and selling for one hundred , all done ? |
| 20 | The parasites will be blasted a hundred times for the indignities they have inflicted on us ! ’ |
| 21 | A tale , which could and probably will be repeated a thousand times , of the fate of a work of art shaken loose from its context by the tempest of World War II |
| 22 | But in many cases of recording factual information , opinions , attitudes and even physical characteristics ( such as domestic facilities within a house ) , work done by the schedule designer before the questions are asked , or the observations made , can be repaid a dozen times over by the ease with which subsequent analysis can then be carried out . |
| 23 | She is opinionated , and can confidently predict that William Burroughs , whose books have me aching with boredom , will be read a hundred years from now . |
| 24 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 25 | Peter Cook has been awarded a thousand pounds by the Prince 's Youth Business Trust to set up his own juggling company . |
| 26 | The Council of Legal Education Trinity Bar Examination 1989 Additional Pass List The following candidate has been awarded a III been awarded a III Class Pass in the Bar Examination 6017 Andrews , JR ( I ) The Council of Legal Education Michaelmas Bar Examination 1989 Overseas Pass List The following candidates have passed an Individual Section to complete the Bar Examination . |
| 27 | THISTLE Engineering Services Ltd [ TESL ] has recently been awarded a one year call off contract with NAM in Holland . |
| 28 | POLICE are being given a 140 mph supercar to help fight auto crime . |
| 29 | Once that confidence had been achieved , it was felt that the school would benefit if every pupil were given a three grade assessment ( acceptable , unacceptable , exceptional ) . |
| 30 | We often lost each other on the seven barges being pushed a thousand miles up the Zaire River , once Conrad 's Congo . |