Example sentences of "[num] be [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , 4 mol of H 2 are converted to 1 mol of CH 4 . |
| 2 | Twenty-six officers were sentenced to death , three peers , including Derwentwater , were executed ; of the rank and file 700 were sentenced to seven years ' transportation to the West Indies . |
| 3 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 4 | Bond had in May 1992 been sentenced to 2 years ' imprisonment [ see p. 38917 ] after being convicted on the same charge , but was released in August after the Western Australian Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction and ordered a retrial [ see p. 39056 ] . |
| 5 | Greenford , Middlesex-based Cable & Flexible suffered from a building industry in the doldrums , he said , while Seacoast in the US performed below expectations because two large contracts expected in 1992 were deferred to 1993 . |
| 6 | Of the other three former executives , one was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other two to 18 years . |
| 7 | A Hubble constant of 50kms -1 Mpc -1 is preferred to one of 100 . |
| 8 | The total fertility rate in the 1930s was reduced to 1.7 in 1933 from 2.4 ten years earlier ( a 28 per cent reduction ) and from 2.8 twenty years earlier ( a 39 per cent reduction ) . |
| 9 | Combsburgh got off fairly lightly — Aaron Howes aged 22 and John Foot aged 34 were transported , and William Dole aged 23 was sentenced to one year of hard labour — but adjoining parishes were not so lucky . |
| 10 | Other designs registered prior to 1st August 1989 are limited to 15 years . |
| 11 | The reference point for the height data ( m ) is Rifugio Piccolo ( between Cisternazza and Montagnola ) and values for November 1989 are set to zero , after the SSE-trending fractures had formed and Strombolian activity had ceased . |
| 12 | A fairly modest plan in England , announced in 1980 , had by 1989 been expanded to 25,000 new places , an increase , at a cost of £1,000 m. , of almost 60 per cent in total capacity by the mid-1990s . |
| 13 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
| 14 | Garcia resigned his seat in January 1990 , shortly before the two were sentenced to three years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | His claim of 75,000 members in September 1890 was reduced to 40,000 at the end of the year , with 60,000 in " financial " membership , i.e. including those who had paid entrance fees . |
| 16 | A further £1.2 million was committed to 15,000 square feet of offices and 12,000 square feet of warehousing accommodation at the Wood Marine Base in Aberdeen , a third of which has been let prior to completion to Deminex . |
| 17 | Healy , 39 overnight , finished unbeaten on 83 as Australia 's 239 for eight was stretched to 303 — a first innings deficit of only 77 . |
| 18 | It may not be the most relaxing way to enjoy the countryside , but thousands are addicted to one of Britain 's fastest growing sports . |