Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 2 | This is always the case unless the purchase of equipment and other costs are undertaken privately by one or more members of the band . |
| 3 | Poems from the ‘ April Fifth ’ movement of 1976 had been posted there during 1978 . |
| 4 | Mary Henderson , Greek by birth , had first come across Laura Ashley in Paris when she and her husband had been posted there in 1975 . |
| 5 | By the day before the completion of sale all the goods in her house had been gathered together in one room downstairs , some packed in wooden crates , some in black leather cases and tapestry bags , some still living free . |
| 6 | The discontent with de Gaulle 's policies , which had been building steadily since 1958 , suddenly burst into the open . |
| 7 | The masts extend upwards to support the central roof and are joined together with three stages of horseshoe timber arches and timber boarding . |
| 8 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 9 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 10 | A LASER-BASED technique that can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation hits been developed independently by two American research groups . |
| 11 | Estimates that 11 million hectares of forest are being lost every year have recently been revised upwards to 17 million . |
| 12 | As a result , output has been revised upwards by 0.2 per cent in the first two quarters and 0.3 per cent in the third , and the trend throughout 1992 now looks even flatter than before . |
| 13 | All the major timber clearance work has now been completed apart from twelve small saplings , and also two rather dangerous trees to be felled by our expert timber feller ( Joe Lawley ) . |
| 14 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 15 | He recalls that ingenious nylon synthesis in which the two reagents are dissolved separately in two immiscible solvents . |
| 16 | Child benefit has not been uprated annually since 1987 . |
| 17 | Previously they had been grouped together in one modern frame . |
| 18 | The new computerised processes have meant that the lead time in certain product areas has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to 42 h . |
| 19 | In any event , Ermold assumed that the parents would relish the description of their son , and be amused by the contrast between the adults ' formality and the child 's spontaneity ( though such licence may have been permitted only to under-sevens ) . |
| 20 | By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential . |
| 21 | The territory belonged to the King of Holland who was quite willing to part with it , and although the transfer would have meant the removal of a Prussian garrison which had been installed there since 1815 , Bismarck at first seemed indifferent to the transaction . |
| 22 | First-time bankrupts are discharged automatically after three years . |
| 23 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |
| 24 | Only problems were that one of them had had been snapped off at the legs and been reglued direct to the base , presumably in an effort to replicate Bremner 's short stature , and also in an effort to simulate Albert Johanneson ( or was it Gerry ? ? ) brown paint had been splurged all over one player , rendering his kit a mucky pink . |
| 25 | If you are keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day and not shedding surplus fat … then the chances are you are NOT keeping strictly to 1,000 calories a day . |
| 26 | It 's been re-opened today after 2 years renovation and the new tenants will be paying £15,000 this year alone . |
| 27 | Chapman 's famous translation of Homer , which sent Keats into ecstasies , is in twenty-four books , but they are contained comfortably in one folio volume . |
| 28 | He was behaving more and more as an autocrat , The State of emergency inherited form Mossadeq had been lifted only on 1956 . |
| 29 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 30 | Close the two lapels , and continuing the old traditional method , bind firmly but not too tightly with raffia — you can buy this as ‘ bass ’ from a sundries shop — that has been prepared previously into 18 inch ( 45cm ) lengths and well soaked to make it soft and pliable . |