Example sentences of "[num] [pron] be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The diglyceride may be important in promoting membrane fusion of the dense body granule with the platelet-surface membrane and also as a substrate for the formation of prostaglandin endoperoxides and thromboxane A 2 which are powerful degranulation stimuli ( Bell et al , 1979 ) . |
| 2 | Well if I refer you , Dave Girt , Leeds City , if I refer you madam to the first paragraph of R P G 2 which is strategic planning guidance for West Yorkshire . |
| 3 | Before moving to Radio 2 she was chief assistant at Radio 4 , handling schedules . |
| 4 | When that Committee reported in 1972 there was further delay before a White Paper , Computers and Privacy , was published in 1975 ; the Data Protection Committee was established in 1976 and reported , recommending legislation , in 1978 . |
| 5 | We were invited to stay with friends living in Northern Burgundy , and to visit a painting school at La Buia , in Umbria , with the idea that I might take a class there in May 1993. there was some discussion , earlier in the year , of another in Venice , and we will break our journey there , for breakfast , next week . |
| 6 | In the 1890s there was periodic tinkering with judicial policy . |
| 7 | In the spring of 1802 there was another phase of mutually influenced poetic production ; Wordsworth wrote over thirty important poems at this time , and though Coleridge had already announced — in March 1801 — that ‘ The poet is dead in me ’ , he was able to contribute the main theme of the dialogue , which is , put simply , what happens to ‘ young Romantic poets ’ after the age of thirty when the visionary period of youth comes to an end . |
| 8 | Yet its numbers are not high : in 1985 there were 1,918 pedigree breeding females and 47 bulls in Britain . |
| 9 | Through the 1820s and 1830s there was increased contact with British and French industrial concerns . |
| 10 | It is easily visible with the naked eye , and is striking in binoculars ; with × 12 there is some resolution of its outer parts , and with × 20 it is seen to be starry . |
| 11 | In London he became a member of the congregation of J. Baldwin Brown , a famous Congregational preacher in Brixton , and in 1876 he was ordained minister at the Congregational church in Shipley , near Bradford . |
| 12 | His father intended him for an army career , but that and a project for farming in the colonies came to nothing ; and by 1885 he was living hand to mouth in Chelsea as an illustrator and journalist . |
| 13 | Between 1882 and 1885 he was British Chaplain in Switzerland , returning to become Vicar of Brompton Regis in Somerset . |
| 14 | In 1880 he became a deacon of the Episcopal Church in Scotland ; in 1881 he was ordained priest and served at the church of St John the Evangelist , Edinburgh . |
| 15 | On 8th December , 1985 he was consecrated bishop in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Hume , as has special responsibility as area bishop for Central London . |
| 16 | A devout Christian , Frumentius visited Alexandria , where in about AD 330 he was consecrated Bishop by the Patriarch Athanasius . |
| 17 | I used to be eleven stone , when I was eighteen , nineteen I was eleven stone Hayle . |
| 18 | A total of 45 estuaries , including 26 which are important wildlife sites , are threatened by land reclamation schemes , which include new housing estates , marinas , waste-disposal facilities and coastal roads . |
| 19 | We had Chernobyl , we had a series of hijackings , we had outrages at Athens Airport , we had the U S raid on Libya by bombers based in Britain erm and everybody then erm turned the corners of their mouths down and forecast the end of tourism , that doom is nigh , and what actually happened was that erm by the end of nineteen eighty six we were four point three per cent down in terms of numbers on a record nineteen eighty five . |
| 20 | In the third quarter of 1991 there were 5717 company insolvencies in England and Wales . |
| 21 | In the first 11 months of 1991 there were 25,226 asylum applications ( of which 7,197 came from Romania and 5,653 from Yugoslavia ) . |
| 22 | In 1991 there were 2,300 asylum requests . |
| 23 | In January 1979 there were 18.9 pupil per teacher in maintained nursery , primary and secondary schools in England . |
| 24 | By the 1840s there was some knowledge of the rhythm method of birth control from discussions by French physicians Pouchet and Raciborski on women 's ovulation cycle , though for a while it was believed that the safe period was immediately after menstruation . |
| 25 | On the Canterbury estates , the initial period of leasing from 1380 to 1440 was followed by a time when it was harder to secure tenants , but after about 1490 there was some recovery in revenues and evidence that there was competition for leases ( 80 , pp.79 , 86 ) . |
| 26 | In 1892 there were 64 trade stands , this year there were 650 . |
| 27 | Between 1985–87 he was general manager at The Dorchester , until the company relinquished its management of the property . |
| 28 | In 1877 he was ordained priest and in 1878 took up his ministry in Wray-on-Windermere . |
| 29 | five point three I 'm sure mum 's got a three inch . |
| 30 | By the time I had joined the BBC in 1969 I was three stone overweight , I drank a bottle of scotch a day and thought muesli and high fibre were feed for cattle . |