Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm as you can see the sales in the first two are expected to be four point nine almost five million pounds . |
| 2 | But inflation is expected to be 0.4 percentage points higher in both years , while interest rates might rise by half a point in 1991 and perhaps by 30 basis points in 1992 . |
| 3 | To some extent this is true , since Michael Chisholm 's research has shown that subsistence land use results in settlements being not more than 1 kilometre ( ½ mile ) or so from most of their land ( Fig 59 ) and hence settlements should perhaps be expected to be 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart . |
| 4 | According to an International Wheat Council report in April 1989 , world wheat stocks at the end of the 1988-90 season were expected to be 103,000,000 tonnes — down from 135,000,000 tonnes at the end of the previous year — with the biggest decline being in US stocks [ see p. 36280 ] . |
| 5 | Fleming 's Level was expected to be 35 fathoms before intersecting the lode and was assessed at a likely £4 : 10s. per fathom with £23 10s. for the metals and sleepers . |
| 6 | Triton SCI will offer bridges to VME-based systems and is claimed to be five times faster than systems that will be built around the emerging Futurebus+ standard . |
| 7 | Pollution in such places is claimed to be ten times worse than in the West and the tonnage of sulphur dioxide said to fall every year on the average square kilometre sounds like the equivalent of a heavy snowfall . |
| 8 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 9 | In most parts of the world the standard duration of therapy is considered to be 12–16 weeks , usually leading to a response rate of 30–40% , . |
| 10 | It remains a component of many , more traditionally based , agroecosystems and as discussed in section 4.4.1 , a return to such practices is now considered to be one answer to Africa 's poor record as a provider of sufficient food for its population . |
| 11 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 12 | The safe upper weekly limits are currently considered to be 21 units for men and 14 units for women . |
| 13 | The team is to be lead by Dr. Boris Babaian of the Russian Academy of Science , inventor of the Elbrus-3 supercomputer which was developed for the Soviet space programme and is reported to be three times faster than a Cray Y-MP . |
| 14 | I mean and I think it is the lack of the regulate the er the regulatory control of city actions , I mean one of the points that we 've been recently been advised on is that one of the city institutions which has already been er fined , er from its London office on a technicality is in effect the New York and London offices are deemed to be one entity and I think that er what we 've been advised is that erm I forget the phrase , I wrote it down here somewhere , that what we would be advised to do is to take action against that particular city institution in New York , because that er it is deemed that the London and New York actions are in fact one and that the that er what in fact the er and I think the f yes , there it is , that , that in a way though what we 've been advised is that the basis of that action would be that the organisations London and New York operations are essentially the same operation and bound by a strict know your customer rule as mandated by U S Securities Law , you know . |
| 15 | That was deemed to be 15 seconds too long , Sam was penalised one shot then bowed out in a play-off to old foe Mark ‘ Jesse ’ James who gunned him down by holing an outrageous downhill put on the self-same green the following evening . |
| 16 | Where an originating process is sent by post ( first class as required ) , the date of service is deemed to be seven days thereafter unless the contrary is proved ( Ord 7 , r 10(3) ; Ord 3 rr 4 – 6 ) . |
| 17 | From earliest days , the proportion of the hexagon was recommended to be 5 units deep , 4 units wide with the cross-spars 3 units apart and this simple formula with units at 500mm ( 19¾in ) has sufficed adequately . |
| 18 | Life expectancy is reckoned to be 69 years , compared with an average of 57 for the whole of the country . |
| 19 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 20 | The true pace of recovery in alcoholism is reckoned to be one month for every year of use . |
| 21 | This clump is reckoned to be 2,000 years old . |
| 22 | In 1752 the old Julian calendar was replaced by the more accurate Gregorian calendar and in order to bring England in line with Europe the next day after 3 September was proclaimed to be 14 September . |
| 23 | There may be said to be two limbs to s740(5) . |
| 24 | There are said to be two reasons for referring the valuation of a company 's shares to its auditors . |
| 25 | His right to the throne was distinctly tenuous ; there were said to be 57 people , if Roman Catholics were included , with a better claim . |
| 26 | Is it just a coincidence that Jesus is said to be thirty years old when he embarks on his ministry ? |
| 27 | Sustained performance was said to be 38 MFLOPS to 42 MFLOPS double precision . |
| 28 | The informal ceiling placed on share option deals by institutional investors is said to be one reason . |
| 29 | This is an easy way of getting light into a garage , and the glazing material used by Cardale is said to be 100 times stronger than glass . |
| 30 | Cousin Island also has a small population of giant tortoises , including ‘ George ’ said to be 150 years old and one of the survivors of the endemic subspecies , the others having been introduced from the island of Aldabra which lies about a thousand kilometres away off the north of Madagascar . |