Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remember , you are knitting the two thicknesses of the yarn on each stitch , so allowance must be made for the stitch size . |
| 2 | They are part of a 50-strong bank of volunteers from Hampshire , Surrey , Kent and Yorkshire , who are driving the 2,000 miles across Eastern Europe , to the home for up to 150 children aged between three and 16 . |
| 3 | ENGLAND — IF England are to reach the 1994 World Cup finals then they must see off Sepp Piontek 's Turkey in style . |
| 4 | They are to visit the 1993 Games in Vancouver to help to plan the five-day event , which will be open to athletes who have received organ transplants . |
| 5 | Export men are eyeing the 34 km stretch between Riyadh airport and the Saudi Arabian capital . |
| 6 | He says ’ I think that for everyone who is objecting to the festival locally there are a lot more who are happy to see it go on and see the space used properly and there are twenty five thousand people here from all over the country that are loving the three days . ’ |
| 7 | I think all the work that we did indicates that there the productivity is one issue , that unless you 're doing the two point eight or whatever 's in the budget , you know , we 're not gon na get near it . |
| 8 | Do you know you 're doing the three times table ? |
| 9 | ( I am told the two storey six-bed house first on left as one descends the hill rents for £350 or so , yes £350 , in high summer ) . |
| 10 | No further information is available at present , but it is understood that police are interviewing the five people arrested . ’ |
| 11 | Fortunately , computer buyers are spared the one thing which afflicts consumers of prestige-based goods : computer brand names do n't confer any status unless you 're one of those nerds who hangs out with hackers and reckons that one 's image is enhanced by owning Conner , ATI , Logitech or whatever . |
| 12 | Police are linking the two shootings . |
| 13 | Two teams are running the 550 miles from Edinburgh to London down the east and west of the country . |
| 14 | Let me put it this way , I 'm doing the one job in the world which I really want to do , which I love — and work to me is pleasure , so I do n't have very much time and even the things I do in a way are relaxation . |
| 15 | I 'm mixing the two people . |
| 16 | SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 17 | I thought for a moment he meant the tobacco industry , but realised that when big business and jobs are involved the 100,000 deaths per year counts for nothing . |
| 18 | Many of you have said that you are finding the two morning services a help in meeting others . |
| 19 | The cadets are carrying the SA-80 rifle |
| 20 | They are invesitigating the two transactions in question , to see if there has been a breach of trust . |
| 21 | The great rectangular block on which are inscribed the one-sixtieth fractions of the allied tribute which were ‘ paid ’ to the goddess Athena has room for one fewer annual list than the available years , and the most likely solution from a technical point of view is that no one-sixtieth was paid to Athena in 449 . |