Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was last seen shortly after being excavated 150 years ago . |
| 2 | A YOUNG policewoman was fighting for life early today after being stabbed three times as she tried to break up an argument . |
| 3 | Paul Chad , QC , prosecuting told Exeter Crown Court how Faye died after being stabbed 20 times with a 9in kitchen knife on which Harris had written ‘ Faye sorry ’ in pencil . |
| 4 | A BOY of four drowned yesterday after being swept three miles down a flooded river near Ammanford , West Wales . |
| 5 | HOW proud Karen Costen must be of her two-year-old son who battled on after being given two weeks to live and has finally had a kidney transplant . |
| 6 | In his semi-final Hartlepool 's Mark Chicocki was disqualified after being given three warnings in the last round for leaning on , a decision booed soundly by the crowd and highlighted by the fact that in following bouts boxers who leaned on just as much were n't even spoken to . |
| 7 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 8 | A 26-year-old man was recovering in hospital today after being shot four times in an apparent punishment shooting in the New Lodge area of Belfast last night . |
| 9 | The Pontins League includes the reserve teams of most of the North 's top clubs , with Everton gaining promotion back to the first division last season after being relegated 12 months previously . |
| 10 | None of the Republic players was more likely to come into conflict with Charlton 's tactics than Liam Brady , who announced his retirement from international football after being substituted 10 minutes from half-time in a recent friendly against West Germany . |
| 11 | He 's moving after being burgled three times in one week . |
| 12 | Earlier former Wales international David Jones rolled back the years with a top score 61 , riding his luck after being dropped three times . |
| 13 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 14 | Now I know time is against me : the horror of being left thirteen feet in the air with no stairs to reach the ground ! |
| 15 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 16 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 17 | Despite being arrested thirty-five times — once after allegedly taking part in this high-speed chase across three counties — he 's always had to be released from police cells after being granted bail . |
| 18 | Despite being launched six months or so ago in the US , with almost singular lack of impact , this part of the package has been accepted internally as a program integrator by no less an august institution than IBM itself . |
| 19 | The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c |
| 20 | Born in 1924 , his ambitions were delayed by the outbreak of the second world war in which he served in the Royal Naval Reserve from 1943 , first in Coastal Forces and then on minesweepers , rising to the rank of lieutenant before being demobilised three years later . |
| 21 | These pine cabinet doors were sanded to a smooth finish before being given one coat of Antique Pine wood dye . |
| 22 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 23 | A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century . |
| 24 | In 1279 Pecham had ordered the general cursing of a wide range of malefactors against the church ; this was to be pronounced four times a year in each parish church with solemn ritual . |
| 25 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 26 | Because these elections have to be organized three years running . |
| 27 | I asked for this to be arranged twelve months ago , but it is still in the hands of the solicitor , who does not answer letters . |
| 28 | ‘ To be recognised 8,000 miles from your land is magical , ’ he says . |
| 29 | You will almost certainly find that you are happier to be seeing one side of the model than the other . |
| 30 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |