Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn Hoddle says he thinks his team will win because there is a determination running throughout the club and the supporters who were robbed three years ago and could have gone on for another fifty or sixty years waiting a chance like this … |
| 2 | After their stumblings against Norwich and Blackburn this was the mean-hearted fired-up Gunners who were made 3-1 title favourites by the bookies . |
| 3 | In the eight years she 's been showing the plants she 's won hundreds of awards . |
| 4 | According to Mr Gorman , one of the main grievances is the minimal redundancy packages given to the 67 Albion workers who were sacked two weeks ago : ‘ We will be pushing the case for adequate recompense for workers who lost their jobs . |
| 5 | In recent years she 's suffered two heart attacks and been treated for cancer and she says she ca n't stand much more of the strain . |
| 6 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 7 | They were part of a prize-winning herd of more than 80 cattle which was founded 5 years ago . |
| 8 | If there is rivalry between the firms it is forgotten three times a year when Stuart Johnstone , of Smiths , organises a get together of Glasgow booksellers and reps . |
| 9 | After 10 games it was won 5 , drawn 5 ( 20 pts ) . |
| 10 | He says along with friends he 's owed one thousand pounds in prize money . |
| 11 | Environment Minister Emil Salim said that the 500 firms , spread over 11 of the 27 provinces of Indonesia , have failed to comply with water effluent standards which were set two years ago . |
| 12 | Note the wage rate at any point in time ( t ) is made up of an average of wages which were set one period earlier and those set two periods before . |
| 13 | But do you really expect me to remember babies who were born twenty years ago ? ’ |
| 14 | Nobody ever got rich by just going on talk shows — well , not on mine , anyway — and when you 're talking about actors who are paid millions of pounds for one film , then I suspect their accountants advise them against it . |
| 15 | Thus , in most WFS countries in the Western Hemisphere and East & South-East Asia & Oceania regions , among the women who were aged 25–29 when interviewed , median age at first marriage or union was about 20.2 and 18.8 , respectively , and the median age at first birth ( i.e. the age at which half of them had already had a birth ) was around 21 years ( between 19 and 24 years in individual countries ) . |
| 16 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 17 | One dairy farm he visited on the way to Albuquerque had 750 cows which were milked three times a day through a 24/24 side-exit herringbone parlour . |
| 18 | The difference between Brookeborough ( UPNI ) , elected seventh , and Oliver was a mere twenty votes which was covered seventy-six times by 1507 non-transferable votes ( see below ) . |
| 19 | Allen ( VUPP ) secured the seventh seat with 6,114 votes from Erwin ( Un ) , runner-up , with 6,066 votes , a difference of 48 votes which was covered eighty-four times by 4052 non-transferable votes . |