Example sentences of "be [num] [conj] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have been fifty but possibly thirty . |
| 2 | The Sunday Times reported that ‘ the elderly will be encouraged to stay in paid employment until they are 70 or even older . ’ |
| 3 | It should have been 2 or even 3 nil at half-time . |
| 4 | There are 100 or so such centres and they can attribute their origins to the individual legal and charitable initiatives of members of the profession . |
| 5 | And now the states emerging from the Soviet empire are opening up new markets for him : ‘ Suddenly there are 17 or so more countries all wanting their own national stamps , ’ he said . |
| 6 | The angle in this case being 23.4 , the full field of view will be 23.4 or nearly 47 in total . |
| 7 | Next year Minnie I will be forty and hardly able to believe it but I am resolved to make great changes with the help of a hard winter 's work . |
| 8 | Church & Patel 's investigation ( 1982 ) of this showed that there may be hundreds or even thousands of different parse trees for some very natural English sentences . |
| 9 | There looked to be three or perhaps four of the Tree Spirits . |
| 10 | Filling stations , rest rooms , or any other signs of roadside life can be 50 or more bleak kilometres apart . |
| 11 | Well until , er quarter to ten will be one and then ten ten past |
| 12 | There will be five or so such bobbins for each rod , and the pretensioned rovings are directed through guides down into a bath of polyester resin in much the same way as any glass fibre is prepared for setting into its shape by wetting the fibres with resin/hardener mix . |
| 13 | These may be close at hand , perhaps even in the very field where you will set your net , or they may be two or even three fields away . |
| 14 | In the former case When m = 0 , all integrals on the right-hand side except the first are zero and therefore This result just confirms , of course , that the steady component is the time average of the signal . |
| 15 | It seems also to have a special magnetism for their children , who look forward to spending all day playing video games until it 's time to try and get served by a barman who does n't notice they are 15 and only four feet ten . |
| 16 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 17 | Yes , there were 300 or so other overs bowled on the four days of play permitted by the weather , with nine innings passing 50 , and even the extras in England 's innings passing the half-century . |
| 18 | In the case of 44% , it only happened once ; for 29% it happened more than once with the same person ; for 19% there were three or more different people on separate occasions . |
| 19 | It was totally unbalanced — there were ten or so Labour people , and about four hundred Conservatives — it sat for about three hours every day , and there were a great number like Halifax , Salisbury , Beaverbrook who had been prominent in political life . |
| 20 | In the pub were twenty or so other walkers , similarly soaked , all crowding round a massive wood stove . |
| 21 | The first 15 instalments were satisfactory , the sixteenth was defective , and there were four or more satisfactory deliveries . |
| 22 | Split There were two or more correct hypotheses in sequence over the region of the hand-transcribed phoneme . |
| 23 | For various reasons , some horses are not broken until they are four or even five years old . |
| 24 | There are 40,000 or so more-or-less Slav-speakers on the Greek side — the Greeks will not be specific — out of Greek Macedonia 's total population of 2.25m . |
| 25 | There are situations , it seems , where it is reasonable to say that there are two or more causal circumstances for a single effect . |
| 26 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 27 | So there are two or more key facts each day for your education . |
| 28 | Bees , thus , actively approach horizontal stripes and avoid vertical ones , suggesting that there are two or more independent channels . |
| 29 | With effect from 1 April 1993 a dwelling will be subject to the Council Tax and the full amount is payable where there are two or more adult residents . |
| 30 | There are two or possibly three sections that require close inspection and ropework and the gorge should not be taken lightly but do not less this detract from a river that has everything . |