Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they say even though unemployment rates are very high now , people are prepared to wait ten years before they get a job . |
| 2 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 3 | Apparently they 're supposed to do two curacies before they get one of their own , but this chap was a bit of a favourite of the Bishop and the Bishop is patron of the living . ’ |
| 4 | well , oh you 're supposed to have four cups I 'll er I 'll use it one day and not tell you and see if you can tell the difference shall I ? |
| 5 | You 're lucky to find two rooms , one for sleeping , |
| 6 | Officers are supposed to work 150 hours a month , but Frances , 27 , does more . |
| 7 | Answer guide : In this case it would seem that for the cars they should be depreciated over four years as they are unlikely to do 60,000 miles . |
| 8 | They are unable to manipulate two elements at once ( length and breadth , for example ) , they can not perceive conservation ( of weight or volume or mass ) , and are unable mentally to reverse processes . |
| 9 | By piecing together information from a range of sources , including fire reports , response to MPs ' questions and media reports , Greenpeace has been able to document 252 fires plus explosions and radioactive leaks . |
| 10 | For the past week , with your donations , CARE have been able to mount six airlifts a day to Baidoa and Bardera — two of the towns featured in the Mirror 's shock report . |
| 11 | Some antelopes have been recorded fleeing at 42 miles an hour for a mile , or 35 miles an hour for 4 miles , and deer have been able to sustain 30 miles an hour for an astonishing 20 miles . |
| 12 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 13 | But that first day they had only been able to afford two bottles of Anjou rosè . |
| 14 | It is agreed that an appropriate vehicle for the transport of the plaintiff in the future is a vehicle called a Nissan Serena , the plaintiff claims for a cost of conversion of such a vehicle at six thousand , two hundred pounds , it would need to be renewed of course from time to time and allowances made for that , the defendant says that a firm called can convert the same vehicle for less than the tenth of the price , six hundred pounds , Mr says that such advantages , if any , of the conversion for which the plaintiff claims are so minimal that it can not possibly be right to spend ten times the money on achieving them . |
| 15 | Costs could be reduced further by screening more patients per unit time , and we estimate that it should be possible to screen 2500 patients a year once the screening programme is established ( our costs are based on screening 1800 per year ) . |
| 16 | It would be possible to mount two sorts of argument against the Protocols style of conspiracy theory from within the conspiracy tradition itself . |
| 17 | It used to be possible to complete three circuits of the Barkhor before being detained . |
| 18 | The immersion heater can be mounted vertically or horizontally ( depending on the design of the cylinder ) ; it may be possible to fit two heaters or a dual-element heater so that you can choose whether to heat the whole cylinder ( for a bath ) or just the top part ( for washing up and hand washing ) . |
| 19 | Well Mr er pleading guilty to these offenses and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf the main offence of having no excise licence you 'll be fined seventy five pounds and be willing to pay eighty pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs and for the offenses of failing to produce you 'll be fined ten pounds for each of those three offenses . |
| 20 | She had wondered if it would be sensible to let two rooms upstairs . |
| 21 | Such a task is clearly beyond the scope of this report , but it may be instructive to describe two schools in some depth . |
| 22 | I 'm supposed to have six tapes . |
| 23 | It would be hard to find three individuals more unalike than we are , which is probably why we 've stuck together all these years ! |
| 24 | Robson says he is still bitter about reading ‘ you will be lucky to get 10 games a season out of him . ’ |
| 25 | The aim of this work was to see if it would be feasible to drill 6 kilometres down to reach rock strata containing water at 200 °C , hot enough to raise steam for power generation . |
| 26 | It may be helpful to attend six meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous to see how close is the identification with acknowledged sufferers . |
| 27 | Because the basis for making comparisons is not always made explicit , it may be helpful to discuss two kinds of descriptive framework which are frequently employed in assessment procedures . |
| 28 | In order to appreciate what experiential learning is , it may be helpful to consider three types of knowledge ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 29 | For example a unit which can soften 5000 litres of water with a hardness of 200 ppm as CA Co3 would only be able to soften 2500 litres of water with a hardness of 400ppm , since the resin has to do twice as much work . |
| 30 | In March , those prepared to buy a second dish will be able to receive five channels of British Satellite Broadcasting . |