Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 2 | The sustainable yield from the fishery by these methods , which have little effect on other fish species , and no significant effect on dolphins , turtles , or sea birds , has been calculated as 45,000 tonnes per year — 35,000 tonnes of adult fish taken by longlines , and 10,000 juveniles , taken by trolling . |
| 3 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 4 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 5 | We have now reached the stage where the planning and programming stages have been completed and four locations have been successfully implemented . |
| 6 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |
| 7 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 8 | Earlier , clashes with riot police had been reported when 10,000-15,000 demonstrators marched on the presidential office in Taipei on Sept. 9 to demand a plebiscite on Taiwan rejoining the UN as an independent country , on the release of dissidents and on the repeal of sedition laws . |
| 9 | The damage to the mast has been repaired and three Army officers , Garfield Smith , Nick Bate and Richard Nicholson , have joined the crew , Mandy Gallow and Tim Morris having made a scheduled return to duty . |
| 10 | DONALD McKENZIE of Ellister , EFFERICK McKENZIE , wife of John McVeir alias McDONALD and sister of DONALD McKENZIE , and KATHARIN NcINDUGHLASSIE of Ellister were arrested and brought before Archibald Campbell of Cluaness Baillie of Islay on 16 May 1699 ( a full year after the crime is said to have been committed and six days before John McVeir was taken before the Baillie ) . |
| 11 | [ An interference is deemed to have been committed when one surfer ‘ drops in ’ on another , that is , takes off on a wave on which the other has already established priority . |
| 12 | The first casualty reports from the Pentagon said 11 US troops had been killed in action , 39 had been wounded and one man was missing . |
| 13 | Since the Trust was founded in 1960 Alton and Petersfield have been organised as one area ( the Trust have seven areas and the IoW ) . |
| 14 | An educational programme had been done and 12 hours training every two years was required to keep the licence . |
| 15 | A special area has been built where 8 counselling services come together under one organisation . |
| 16 | A Gestalt is a mode of perception of a group of objects — say of the dots in a printed picture — so that they are seen as one thing . |
| 17 | Meanwhile it 's been revealed that thirty people have been arrested and thousands of pounds worth of drugs seized during raids in North Oxfordshire . |
| 18 | All numeric values are written as five bytes of binary real data ( see the Annex entitled " Format of Program and Variables in Memory " ) . |
| 19 | Compounds are written in different ways ; sometimes they are written as one word , e.g. ‘ armchair ’ , ‘ sunflower ’ , sometimes with the words separated by a hyphen , e.g. ‘ gear-change ’ , ‘ fruit-cake ’ , and sometimes with two words separated by a space , e.g. ‘ desk lamp ’ , ‘ battery charger ’ . |
| 20 | By the middle of the month , over 350 arrests had been made and six newspapers banned in government moves to disrupt the opposition campaign . |
| 21 | Assuming a valid haulage contract has been made and one party is in breach of one or more of the terms , the usual remedy is to sue the party in default for damages . |
| 22 | Possibly even later , two burials have been recorded from Coulter 's Garage just outside the south side of the defences ; these may be contemporary with the interment of a young girl who had been beheaded and ten infant burials in the garden of Lloyds Bank . |
| 23 | Proposals for the revision of the family Ophiacanthidae are made and four sub-families are erected . |
| 24 | Well look , I do n't know what you 're getting but one portion of chips 'll be enough between us . |
| 25 | An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated . |
| 26 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |
| 27 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |
| 28 | By June 1991 , however , still only seven of the 28 companies had been sold and eight others were in liquidation . |
| 29 | Does he realise that the mining fraternity has been reduced from 22,000 in 1979 , to fewer than 8,000 now and that in my constituency seven collieries have been closed and 5,000 miners made redundant ? |
| 30 | I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit . |