Example sentences of "to be [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your working life , for this purpose , is normally considered to be 44 years for a woman and 49 years for a man ( i.e. age 16 until pension age ) , but it may be less if you were of working age but not in insurable employment when the National Insurance Scheme started in 1948 . |
| 2 | Alright , when the supply comes on to the market , you know , it may be nine months down the road if it 's an annual crop , if you 're looking at something like erm , production of cocoa , right now , a cocoa tree takes about nine years to mature , therefore alright , you 're not going to know what prices are going to be nine years down the road , you 're going to have to base your production decisions and therefore your output decisions on what prices are nearly a decade , nearly a decade ago . |
| 3 | You must point towards your future , you must wonder if your future is to be fourteen years in the Dubrovlag . |
| 4 | In 1915 the National Conference estimated the cost of a pauper to be 14s 0d per week and that of a criminal 11s 10d net , but a state pensioner , ‘ a British subject , who is required under the Act , to be a respectable and provident person ’ was granted between 1s 0d and 5s 0d per week only . |
| 5 | There were estimated to be 250,000 tonnes of carcinogenic PCBs in Europe . |
| 6 | To begin with , dams create lakes behind them , and the one that was to build up behind Aswan , Lake Nasser , was supposed to be 500 km in length , with a surface of 5100 square km . |
| 7 | Just a few hundred yards from West Mercia police HQ in Worcester and the first of what 's thought to be 28,000 drivers in this area with no tax disc , is pulled in . |
| 8 | In the time of Henry VIII there were reckoned to be fifteen lords for each million of the population . |
| 9 | They are planned to be 1 metre in diameter , 12 metres long , weigh 15 tonnes and have a terminal velocity fast enough to plunge 20 metres into clay . |
| 10 | The components used were to be 1 litre of Siporax , plastic media ( Flocor ) and open cell foam . |
| 11 | The approximate savings per unit can be assumed to be 1 chef at £6,000 per annum per unit . |
| 12 | From the cantharus of pl.13 flows what appears to be two jets of a fountain . |
| 13 | There seem to be two states of the transcendent . |
| 14 | There seemed to be two areas of subject-matter where quadraphonics might have an artistic advantage , drama and wildlife recording , so it seemed very sensible when the first ‘ quadraphonic ’ record of birdsong was announced . |
| 15 | Ballesteros returned 70 for day three to be two strokes behind the two leaders , with the West German Bernhard Langer . |
| 16 | There seem to be two reasons for this differential response to the human capital theory : education in Cuba extends beyond the classroom to the fields and the factories , while in capitalist countries it is restricted to the classroom . |
| 17 | There are said to be two reasons for referring the valuation of a company 's shares to its auditors . |
| 18 | There seem to me to be two problems with this line of argument ( which is essentially that speech is ‘ role-appropriate ’ and that gender is a major determinant of role ) . |
| 19 | There may be said to be two limbs to s740(5) . |
| 20 | There used to be two shelves in the oven . |
| 21 | There seem to be two choices in noise right now , two routes to oblivion . |
| 22 | There would seem to be two components to this notion . |
| 23 | Therefore , there seem to be two bases on which a contractual term can be attacked even though it does not attempt to restrain a party after the contractual period had ended . |
| 24 | As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work . |
| 25 | There seem to be two ways of focusing on someone 's weaknesses . |
| 26 | There seem in fact , however , to be two exceptions to this general rule , namely Molla Yegan , who almost certainly resigned the office , and Abdulkerim , who must either have resigned or been removed from it if the facts given in the he was appointed Mufti in the time of Mehmed II and died in the time of Bayezid II — are correct . |
| 27 | There are to be two features on her in the illustrated papers , Uncle Lionel says . |
| 28 | ‘ Three main meals every week used to be two pieces of toast each in a bowl , with milk and sugar . ’ |
| 29 | A man with what appears to be two sacks of potatoes on his back stops and looks up to where I sit . |
| 30 | SCIENCE and technology are supposed to be two keystones of Mikhail Gorbachev 's attempts to liven up the Soviet economy . |