Example sentences of "be [verb] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
2 | About half their original sample had been given a second interview four years after the first . |
3 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
4 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
5 | Classic movie-star style also crops up at Hope And Glory , who are opening a second shop in the new Thomas Neal development in Covent Garden at the end of September . |
6 | The adoption of standards by TDWG networking and the first steps towards ‘ taxonomically intelligent ’ integrity checking are enabling a second generation to appear . |
7 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
8 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
9 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
10 | The event , which has been one of the most successful new launches in recent years , is now in jeopardy for the coming season , although both the RYA and James Capel are seeking a last minute sponsor . |
11 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
12 | The open days free to unwaged people ; £2.50 to others are to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of Durham Street , which was the first community recording studio in the country . |
13 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
14 | you 're given a second chance . |
15 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
16 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
17 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
18 | erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases . |
19 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
20 | When we 're doing first aid incidents erm the standard thing we 're doing for adults when they 're doing a first aid exam is we 'll give present them with a casualty with perhaps a cut hand or something like that and they 'll actually have a black eye . |
21 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
22 | So , you know , they 're taking a second mortgage , not a first mortgage , because we 've already mortgaged it . |
23 | He 'd been offered a second chance of salvation . |
24 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
25 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
26 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
27 | Nevertheless it is not financially troubled Japan , but Asia 's tigers who are leading the next wave of investment in the region . |
28 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
29 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
30 | POLICE and fire brigade experts are investigating the second blaze in a fortnight at a farm on the Mulgrave estate near Whitby . |