Example sentences of "[num] [conj] a [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uses and trusts the Common Law will not recognize ; wills of land , it has decided , are void ( unless established by local custom — it was not till 1540 that a statute was passed giving power to leave land by will ) . |
| 2 | Bickford himself fell seriously ill before his fuse could be manufactured in any quantity , and it was only after his death in 1834 that a factory was established in Tuckingmill which continued to make various types of fuse , seldom departing very far from the original specifications , for almost 130 years . |
| 3 | they were married in December 1421 and a son was born at Windsor , but before the boy was nine months old , Henry V died in France . |
| 4 | 2 If a cough is present steam inhalations may be prescribed to help loosen secretions . |
| 5 | In the following years many proposals were made for the construction of a railway between Welshpool and Llanfair Caereinion but it was not until 1898 that a company was formed to build the present line and the then Earl of Powis became its Chairman , an office which he held until the grouping in 1922 . |
| 6 | Coke died in the 1840s and a monument was erected to him at Holkham , guarded by a cudding Devon cow carved in stone . |
| 7 | ‘ Thirteen and a half is a responsible age . |
| 8 | The only one I got was that in his view thirteen and a half was too late for confirmation ; it was best done as a sort of early ‘ double shot ’ — like a jab of cholera with typhoid — along with baptism . |
| 9 | No , twenty eight and a half 's not bad . |
| 10 | It was not until 1946 that a psychiatrist was called in . |
| 11 | Three and a half is about there . |
| 12 | You 're never alone with Club 18–30 because a Clubrep is always nearby 24 hours a day . |
| 13 | Stewart Mason , the new Chairman of the NCDAD , was — as we have seen — convinced by the early 1970s that a merger was both inevitable and desirable . |
| 14 | ‘ Nevertheless , it was not until September 18 that a decision was made that a section 105 investigation should be recommended by the Minister and the submissions to that effect did no reach him until October 13 , ’ says Sir Anthony . |
| 15 | Nabi Berri , leader of the Shia organization Amal and currently a Cabinet member , said on Aug. 18 that a postponement was undesirable and that " those who call for a postponement are also targeting the Taif accord " . |
| 16 | On this basis , it may be assumed that reliability estimates ought to exceed 0.7 if a test is to be regarded as providing ‘ reliable ’ scores . |
| 17 | It will be March 3 before a decision is taken by North Yorkshire County Council whether to allow 2.56 million tonnes of limestone to be extracted from the quarry . |
| 18 | Borrowers can choose from a whole range of repayment vehicles — endowment , pension , PEP , interest-only , repayment loans , any one or a combination are acceptable without any loading on the rate . |
| 19 | Police have released a video of a man who carried out three robberies including one where a shot was fired . |
| 20 | Five and a half , that 's right he is almost exactly five and a half are n't you ? |
| 21 | Providing children eat a reasonable variety of foods they do n't really need extra vitamins but as a safeguard it 's recommended to give drops containing vitamins A , C and D from six months to two years and until the age of five if a child is fussy about what she eats . |
| 22 | ‘ On this new album there 's one huge track called The Lighthouse , which a lot of people have heard because I 've been playing it on stage — an hour out of two and a half is this album . |
| 23 | four for two and a go is three . |
| 24 | And Peter forty four and a half is fifth . |
| 25 | I be four I 'm not four and a half am I mum ? |
| 26 | Right , B two if a train is going at a constant speed of ninety miles per hour how far will it go in two hours ? |
| 27 | Soldiers wiped out a village in south Sumatra 's Lampung province in 1989 because a zealot was thought to be preaching fundamentalism ( it has emerged he was just griping about land ownership ) . |