Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the reconstructed Berlin Wall where they are reconciled 34 years later , the crowd will swell to 500 . |
| 2 | On their way to the top the Gunners , in their new red and white shirts , had given the crowd plenty of thrills , including a classic contest at Villa Park where they were beaten 5–3 after twice being in the lead , and a 3–3 draw at home to Derby in which Roberts twice headed into his own net . |
| 3 | Griffin ran into problems quite early , against MCC in fact , at Lord 's , where he was called three times fro throwing and once , simultaneously , for dragging . |
| 4 | Over in Ireland Jim Dreaper gave Carvill 's Hill his seasonal debut in the Durkan Brothers International Punchestown Chase , where he was beaten three lengths by last season 's Irish Grand National winner Maid Of Money , who was receiving 5lb and started favourite . |
| 5 | Civil war has broken out among the poets of Ireland , which is why Patrick Kavanagh , bohemian and rural bard , now has two graves in Inniskeen , the County Monaghan village where he was born 85 years ago . |
| 6 | Where he 'd come from and where he was ensured one thing : like Garnett , Mercer , and Loach , Goodwin was a socialist . |
| 7 | He possessed a house in Twickenham in addition to his official residence in the palace of Westminster , but his principal seat was in Eydon , Northamptonshire , where he was buried 8 June 1691 . |
| 8 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 9 | In 1887 he was invited to Kensington chapel , where he was ordained 17 October 1889 : determined that Horne should be its minister , Kensington waited eighteen months for him to complete his course . |
| 10 | , Matthew ( 1753–1781 ) , engineer and inventor , was born at 3 Narrow Wine Street , Bristol , where he was baptized 18 November 1753 , the son of Mary and William Wasbrough , originally a barber-surgeon and peruke maker , who was in partnership with Roger Rice in a brass-founding and clock-making business in Narrow Wine Street . |
| 11 | I expect the Establishment Division refused to supply her with a tape-recorder ( and for good reason , one might think ) , so she 's brought one of her children 's instead . |
| 12 | His band play only once a month , although they 're offered 15,000 roubles per night . |
| 13 | Although he was born seventy-one years ago in New York , not Greece , Theodoros Stamos feels the pull of his Greek heritage with the force of the tides in the wine-dark sea . |
| 14 | Provided I am focused 100 per cent , I will win it . |
| 15 | Three failed to comply with the protocol restrictions ; one patient continued to use H 2 receptor antagonists until she was withdrawn three days after entry and another was unable to keep his alcohol consumption below 40 U/week ; a third ( asymptomatic ) patient withdrew her consent within a month of randomisation . |
| 16 | If you are granted one of our mortgages for more than 80% of the purchase price or valuation , then you will also be required to take out a mortgage guarantee indemnity policy . |
| 17 | If you were given three hours to collect your thoughts and write it down , you 'd all d excuse me , hello , right . |
| 18 | If they are offered three piece suites they should be suspicious and if they see any of these things they should report it to us . |
| 19 | For example , some countries — Spain , Portugal and Austria for example — appear to classify enterprises as public if they are owned 50 per cent or more by government . |
| 20 | The defe most people , if they 've revised , would do very well on any one of these as a single essay if they were given three hours . |
| 21 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 22 | Oh , if it was bought two or three years ago , well I well obviously I could n't say , but obviously they have the option to read the policy at that point . |
| 23 | Unless she 's took three quarters of turkey back . |
| 24 | He explained : ‘ I did it because we were beaten 3-1 in the practice match . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I did it because we were beaten 3-1 in the practice match . ’ |
| 26 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 27 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 28 | Spelling is often regarded as a totem to be preserved by patriots , rather than a technology , because it was invented thousands of years ago . |
| 29 | Id-like but asexual , they are the mirror-image of the soldiers ( violent and threatening ) and the insanely behaviourist scientist , Dr Logan ( Richard Liberty ) , seeking domination and control , however meaningless , since they are outnumbered 400,000 to one . |
| 30 | Since they were erected four months ago , at a cost of ten thousand pounds , they 've been daubed with paint and stuffed with litter . |