Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lot number one three three one three three is the sword rack there 's the sword rack showing for two hundred pounds at two hun two twenty , two forty , two sixty , two eighty , three hundred bid I 'm offered three hundred pounds and ta I shall take it at three hundred pounds , anybody else ? |
| 2 | This creative work of art was produced by May Bolton , a member of the Hems Knitting Club , , to celebrate the 100th meeting of their club which was started nine years ago . |
| 3 | ASHANTI ARE a Belfast based three piece which were formed eight years ago by guitarist Steven Boyd — the last remaining original member of the band . |
| 4 | As a result we are given one of the most blatant examples of a blonde floozie being added to a film purely for box-office considerations . |
| 5 | In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents . |
| 6 | Colleague Nurit Tzabar , from the settlement which is located six miles from the biblical town of Sodom , said : ‘ She was a modest girl who kept herself to herself . |
| 7 | Also , it has proved very difficult to reproduce the events which led to Fleming 's famous observation , and it is clear that many versions of the story which were published 15 or more years later , after penicillin became famous , drew on faded but vivacious memories and are more or less imaginary . |
| 8 | The reason for this is that the snail can only perceive events which are more than one quarter of a second apart , so a stick which is moved four times a second appears to be stationary . |
| 9 | The Maths Department assists in an S1 and S2 Computer Familiarisation course which is allocated one period per week . |
| 10 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 11 | A village which was flooded three times in a year has been celebrating the fact that it will never happen again . |
| 12 | At Alcala 's adult education centre , one toothless old woman in slippers sang her a flamenco lament about a lovely but strong-headed girl from the next village who was stabbed seven times by her jealous husband . |
| 13 | A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday . |
| 14 | John Fordham on the Miles Davis session it 's taken four years to release and the week 's other albums Twisting , teasing trumpet Jazz . |
| 15 | For those tiring of today 's political grand prix scene , Gerald Donaldson 's Gilles Villeneuve — The Life of the Legendary Racing Driver represents a long-overdue memorial to the heroic Canadian driver who was killed seven years ago practising in his Ferrari for the Belgian Grand Prix . |
| 16 | In the guards ' room I was shown two videos . |
| 17 | The story is of a civil rights leader who was born 25 years ago and it 's a day in his life . |
| 18 | Lot number fifty five , Lot number fifty five the hanging lamp there 's the hanging lamp showing for a hundred and fifty pounds at a hundred and fifty , one sixty , one seventy , one eighty , one ninety , two hundred , two twenty standing I 'm offered two hundred and twenty pounds , I 'll take two twenty , two forty , two sixty two eighty three hundred three , going on ? |
| 19 | At fif sixty , thank you , standing , for sixty , sixty five seventy pounds , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety standing I 'm offered ninety pounds at the back standing , at ninety and selling for ninety pounds , you all finished , at ninety pounds . |
| 20 | Seventy , seventy five eighty , eighty five ninety at the back I 'm offered ninety pounds , I shall sell at ninety , it 's yours sir at ninety pounds ninety pounds , gentleman left back and that 's for eight five three . |
| 21 | Shearer , who was transferred to Blackburn Rovers last season , told the court he was paid seven hundred pounds cash as a reward for winning three games in a row . |
| 22 | Like other Vietnamese of his day he was given two names ; his first , ‘ sacred ’ name bestowed at birth was Nguyen Van Coong ( modification of Cung and meaning ‘ respectful ’ ) . |
| 23 | The worst result discounting his vote , would be 6:5 in favour , in the event it was carried 9:2 ! |
| 24 | The first two of these patients were advised to undergo cholecystectomy which was done two and 10 weeks later and the remainder have been followed to determine outcome . |
| 25 | Further trials on Sontochin , now SN-6911 , con firmed its considerable effectiveness , and also generated several ideas which resulted in the synthesis of a compound which was named SN-7618 . |
| 26 | The mine itself was attacked one week later . |
| 27 | Experience shows that this would not be so , as people bent on suicide who are denied one method will choose an alternative . |
| 28 | Editor , — John Spooner calls on experience when he states that ‘ people bent on suicide who are denied one method will choose an alternative . ’ |
| 29 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 30 | That same month he was paid 3/6 per 100 for filling 471 kibbles which came to 16/5 from which 1/2 was deducted for candles , and 1/ for a spade . |