Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The marriage produced four sons and three daughters , the youngest of whom was born seven months after her husband 's death , at the age of forty-one , in the influenza epidemic of 1918 . |
| 2 | Both of them were discharged two years later . |
| 3 | My sister , however , kindly kept him informed of my whereabouts , and he replied in two letters , the first of which was dated 30 November 1940 : The second was dated 27 May 1942 : |
| 4 | Extension services were set up to focus upon a target population of every couple , the wife of which was aged 15–44 years , backed up by medical services and financial incentives to adopters . |
| 5 | Governments seem not to have attempted to stimulate new ideas to guide the country to solutions , but have merely implemented outdated principles , the broad bases of which were devised 50 or 100 years ago , varying slightly with political emphasis as to where the Inland Revenue collections should fall . |
| 6 | One pair of blue jeans , faded , American label , in the pockets of which were found two cinema tickets , one wallet , brown leather with a red painted design , containing … ’ |
| 7 | The Cathedral apse provides a bastion in the city walls and this part of it was built 1088–91 . |
| 8 | Every policeman was given a pint mug and on night duty we were , have n't , we , each of us was given one pint of coffee . |
| 9 | Like , it used to be that [ place ] station might be attacked once or twice a year , like it was hit five times in one night this year … |
| 10 | The noise that came with it was heard fifty miles away . |
| 11 | Michael Obins built a large Elizabethan-style residence for himself and 14 houses in which were settled 14 English families . |
| 12 | An object with what appeared to be a gun barrel pointing from it was found 30 yards from where Mr Peter Jowett 's body lay . |
| 13 | When the passes were found , each was enclosed in an envelope with a first class frank and a recorded delivery sticker ; the covering letter inside mine was dated 18 September . |
| 14 | What was sought from a partner in one 's twenties may be very different from what is sought 20 years later . |
| 15 | Green 's molecules consists of a central tungsten atom to which are attached two five-atom carbon rings ( cyclopentane molecules ) and two hydrogen atoms . |
| 16 | Whole flies ( 100 to 200 mg ) were crushed in 1 ml of extraction buffer ( Tris 10mM pH 7.8 , NaCl 60 mM , EDTA 10mM ) at 0–5°C to which was added 1 volume of lyse buffer ( Tris 300 mM , pH 9 , EDTA 100 mM , DEPC 0.8% ) , SDS 1% , Proteinase K 100µg/ml and incubated 1 h at 65°C . |
| 17 | Between her spraddled legs is a yellow gingham tea towel on which are laid two red cups and saucers , both containing water , and two plates with Smarties and hundreds-and-thousands on . |
| 18 | At this point a servant appeared bearing a rough tray on which were set three horn beakers . |
| 19 | Penny Warlock , Toby Freely and Corbett Farraday grouped themselves around a rickety occasional table , on which was perched one of Mrs Crumwallis 's repulsive collections of cacti . |
| 20 | Word pairs on this list are given a ’ validity score ’ of 1 , and those not on it are given 0 . |
| 21 | During his stay in Istanbul he was treated with the greatest respect by his former students , among whom are mentioned three important muderrises of the city , two from the Sahn and one from the Murad Pasa medrese . |