Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | School librarians can also use programs such as Dbase 2 which is a flexible database management package which can be used for acquisitions and other purposes . |
| 2 | Objections to the deposit plan have been received concerning two adjoining sites at the northern end of Skelton , topic area D thirty nine which is a paddock , and topic area D forty which is a small field between the paddock and the A Nineteen . |
| 3 | In Books 1 and 2 there is a useful set of appendices on Spelling Rules , Grammar Summaries and Phonetic Symbols . |
| 4 | For example , the quotation begins on C minor , while on the fifth beat in bar 2 there is a straightforward chord of D9 . |
| 5 | Certainly in Study 2 there was a significant relationship between risk ratings and accident estimates , even within exemplars of individual junctions . |
| 6 | Under the Constitution as revised in 1972 there is a Legislative Assembly with 12 elected and three official members , while the Governor and Executive Council ( comprising three official members and four elected by and from the Legislative Assembly ) are responsible for internal administration . |
| 7 | In 1972 there was a general agreement that major services , apart from housing , could not be provided economically and efficiently by units with less than 250,000 people . |
| 8 | In the 1890s there was a strong Methodist presence in Edenderry and in the early years of the twentieth century the row of houses running from Watson Street to Mr Hoy 's butcher 's shop was known as ‘ Methodist Row ’ . |
| 9 | In the years following 1885 there was a considerable increase in prosecutions for sexual offences . |
| 10 | There were Cistercian bishops and by 1145 there was a Cistercian pope , Eugenius III . |
| 11 | By 1808 there was a developed pattern of street violence and the ‘ people ’ of the barrios bajos — the poor southern quarter of Madrid — after functioning as the ‘ blind instruments ’ of an aristocratic fronde against Godoy were to become the heroes of the Second of May , when they rose against the French troops . |
| 12 | In June 1985 there was a renewed effort to advance these talks . |
| 13 | In 1985 there was a distinct rise in children killed whilst working . |
| 14 | In 1985 there was a double objective for a rally I did with Ernie Guy for the American Bar Association in the Royal Albert Hall . |
| 15 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 16 | By the 1830s he was a revered scientist and had invented an electromagnetic coil machine . |
| 17 | By virtue of s. 81 of the Companies Act 1985 it is a criminal offence for a private company to offer its shares for sale to the public . |
| 18 | Apart from the few wives and daughters of master printers who had picked up something of the trade in the family firm , the first women compositors in Britain to receive anything like a " systematic training " were apparently taken on by the firm of McCorquodale of Newton-le-Willows in about 1848.12 It was a little-known experiment that did not last . |
| 19 | 2 What is a paralytic ileus ? |
| 20 | In the interest of low power consumption the device is designed around a CMOS integrated circuit type 4093 which is a versatile package containing four two-input NAND gates with Schmitt triggers on their inputs . |
| 21 | And er the rent was twenty one shillings at that time which was rather a lot for a council house so we had , had an exchange down to Street in the where the rent was about seven and six which was a big difference . |
| 22 | On 23 November 1991 there was a violent incident which was investigated by the police in the flat below the mother 's flat , which involved the father and other people . |
| 23 | When Scottish Power and Scottish Hydro were launched in 1991 there was a big response from Northern Ireland , but I 'm sure it wo n't be reciprocated . |
| 24 | In addition , nationally in the first six months of 1991 there was a 53 per cent . |
| 25 | The official statistics agency , Goskomstat , announced on April 19 that oil production had declined by 9 per cent during the first quarter of 1991 as compared with the same period in 1990 , and in the first half of 1991 there was a 25 per cent fall in oil exports . |
| 26 | In 1544 there was a full-scale onslaught on France , in which the English took Boulogne . |
| 27 | So in in response you said that they they were for accuracy and I pointed out to you that that at site thirteen there was a sixty percent error from your forecast for three years hence , nineteen ninety six and what is in fact being achieved at this very moment in time . |
| 28 | In the event , on 1 March 1979 there was a 4 to 1 majority in Wales against devolution , 243,048 votes in favour and 956,330 against . |
| 29 | In 1979 there was a Luddite terror of new technology on the shop floor . |
| 30 | Between 1973 and 1979 there was a significant increase in West German gas demand of almost 20 MTOE per annum . |