Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is based on the modular system and it is hoped our two experts , Messrs. V. Hull and C. Largefeuille will commence training and then , examining any of our Accredited Tutors who are interested in this subject , they will then in turn be able to teach embalmers these specialised skills . |
| 2 | Thus emboldened , Sotheby 's issued their 1 April catalogue to a chorus of disapproval , the most jolting being a letter from Toronto doctor Morton Shulman , who was something of an authority on Schlossmuseum Gotha , having acquired a seventeenth-century clock that had once belonged to the museum . |
| 3 | It 's very sad to have to comfort a man who 's lost his 14 year old boy . |
| 4 | Either the money was earmarked for some special project like the building of the temple to Athena Nike , goddess of victory , a way of saying ‘ we have won the war against Persia ’ or else Athena was refused her one-sixtieth part , for symbolic reasons , the other fifty-nine sixtieths being paid in the usual way . |
| 5 | Ceylon was denied its one chance in 1884 of seeing the ‘ Demon ’ Fred Spofforth , for instance , because he had left his flannels on-board ship . |