Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 2 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 3 | Existing employees are refunded for two private survey fees ; new employees are allowed only one . |
| 4 | More than 1,100 HIV-positive patients are enrolled in five independent phase I trials and three independent phase II trials with gp160 with up to 4 years of follow-up . |
| 5 | Since our ‘ dependent ’ variable is the length in days of the first spell of registered unemployment , all the income variables are calculated as one seventh of the weekly rates . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside . |
| 7 | Few mistakes are admitted to , and events which do n't reflect well upon him , like the highly dramatic resignations of the Navy Minister and chief of Naval Staff in protest at his decision to scrap aircraft carriers , are dismissed in two illuminating sentences . |
| 8 | Contents : detailed walk directions are given for 18 shortish walks — all around 5 miles — in this overlooked part of the country . |
| 9 | The Convention has currently been ratified by 14 European states . |
| 10 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 11 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 12 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 13 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 14 | Research into the history of corporate finance during the period before 1914 has been limited by two major difficulties . |
| 15 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 16 | For this album , the World Saxophone Quartet are joined by three Senegalese drummers ( Chief Bey , Mor Thiam [ who also shares a writing credit ] and Mar Gueye ) and an electric bassist ( Melvin Gibbs , on three tracks ) . |
| 17 | So they 're not bad value , but I , again I would n't overdo it , because we do n't know what the schemes will actually produce , and if you 're going to that I 'd er most of the schemes are limited to five thousand minimum . |
| 18 | Comparisons with crystallographic data are limited to 5 recent high-resolution decamer structures ( 5,10,24,25 ) which due to their crystal space groups are apparently less susceptible to packing effects than earlier dodecamer results . |
| 19 | But , he continues , animals are limited in two fundamental ways : |
| 20 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 21 | It will be the first set of requirements that UI has published that have been validated by 50 major users worldwide . |
| 22 | The consistently low wages paid to farm workers have been explained by five main considerations . |
| 23 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 24 | Goals and targets have been developed in six separate sectors covering the physical environment ( global pollution , air , water , and soil contamination , indoor environment ) ; housing , homes and community infrastructure ; transport ; work and the workplace ; schools ; and health care settings . |
| 25 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 26 | And when Charlotte glanced up , she was astonished to see that the ceiling had been painted as one vast rolling cloudscape . |
| 27 | ‘ Shop-taverns ’ , serving the passing trade as well as the locals , had become common in many towns , whilst many pubs had been partitioned into two distinct areas — the bar room and the tap room . |
| 28 | After the establishment by the Viet Minh of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam ( DRV ) in the north in 1945 , he was dispatched to the South during the war against the French in the early 1950s , but soon returned to Hanoi and to a place in the Communist Party politburo , Vietnam having meanwhile , in 1954 , been partitioned into two military zones , with DRV forces in the north and French forces in the south . |
| 29 | 18,000 miles of new telegraph and telephone wires have been erected on 30,000 new poles , mainly by the Army . |
| 30 | UDCs have been designated in two distinct phases . |