Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR warned that fares on Network SouthEast , where grants will be withdrawn altogether by 1992/93 , would rise in real terms by 2 ½ per cent over inflation for the next five years . |
| 2 | The area is thought to be inhabited by about 2,500 polar bears . |
| 3 | It 's what English language be using now in nineteen ninety . |
| 4 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 5 | The French or Gallica roses are probably the oldest cultivated roses of European origin , and can arguably be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 6 | It was much used in mediaeval times in Britain and , indeed , its use can be traced back for 3,000 years . |
| 7 | The history of the mill can be traced back to 1710 but quite possibly there may have been an older mill on the same site . |
| 8 | The movement can be traced back to 1844 when it started in Rochdale . |
| 9 | It was as architects rather than as builders that the Caroline bureaucrats bequeathed to liberalism this programme : their concrete achievements remained limited , but there is no practical reform of the nineteenth century , no reforming attitude of mind , that can not be traced back to one of the servants of Charles III . |
| 10 | Each word has component parts which can be traced back to one of 800 roots . |
| 11 | In Dr Clarke 's view , the origins can be traced back to 1924 , when Keynes published an article advocating ‘ a drastic remedy ’ for unemployment . |
| 12 | The development of the FEL can be traced back to 1950 , when Hans Motz injected 3 MeV electrons from the Stanford linear accelerator ( linac ) into a magnetic undulator , producing millimetre and submillimetre radiation . |
| 13 | However the recent revival of interest in the practice , which can be traced back to 1977 , represents a new departure , rendering it of far greater potential significance than it has previously assumed . |
| 14 | The Larrikins , who can be traced back to 1870 in Australia , were also organised into local gangs or ‘ pushes ’ , and even allowing for exaggeration and over-involvement ( we need not readily accept , for example , that they gorged themselves on raw meat or rigged elections by terrorising voters , as was sometimes alleged ) their behaviour was unbeatably appalling . |
| 15 | The first panspermic hypothesis can be traced back to 1743 and Benôit de Maillet , who suggested that the germs of life came to Earth from space ; they fell into the oceans and in due course grew into fish and , later , amphibians , reptiles and mammals . |
| 16 | It is a church whose authority lies in its age and its preservation of a form of worship which can be traced back through two millennia . |
| 17 | If the FTSP is started after LIFESPAN , then outstanding file transfers will be delayed up to 30 minutes before being transferred . |
| 18 | The Government 's announcement suggested a possible date beyond 2000 and said that it could be delayed up to 2005 . |
| 19 | Moldovan presidential advisers suggested that a special economic zone be introduced in the Dnestr region and that the introduction of Moldovan as the official language be delayed there until 2000 . |
| 20 | Birds that had been reared with siblings were tested in apparatus that allowed them to be given up to six alternatives ( Bateson , 1982a ) . |
| 21 | The church premises at Oxford Street had to be given up in 1922 , and All Saints Church , Paddington , was purchased . |
| 22 | Any group can make a bid and will be considered seriously , but assistance will be given only for one management — employee buy-out team per company . |
| 23 | Usually it is a united group of notes , as in ( a ) below , but sometimes it can be broken up into two or more parts , as in ( b ) : This first musical thought usually comprises an even number of bars , two , four , or even six , but there is nothing to prevent it being otherwise ( note the eleven-beat phrase in the Musorgsky , Example 4 , above ) . |
| 24 | And following the successful privatization of water supply , the early 1990s will see the privatization of electricity supply ; the CEGB will be broken up into two companies ( National Power and Powergen ) , from which the sale proceeds will dwarf the proceeds of previous privatizations . |
| 25 | We argued that Marxism could be broken up into three elements : a philosophy of history , a theory of economics and a view of the state and revolution . |
| 26 | This lycropolysacrulite is can then be broken up into three different sections the internal membrane section is referred as lipid A. |
| 27 | The company 's accounts state that Nos. 17 and 21 were to be broken up in 1927 and although No. 17 had disappeared without trace , Walter Gratwicke saw two cars numbered 21 side by side in Penge depôt in 1932 ! ( i.e. Milnes Car No. 21 and the ex-Croydon car which replaced it ) . |
| 28 | The build itself can be broken down into two groups , ‘ Direct Build Costs ’ and ‘ Other Costs . ’ |
| 29 | Sources of error in the digitizing process can be broken down into two main streams : source map error and operational error . |
| 30 | Since the relevant words are ‘ I know , Pamphilus , that everything I leave you will pass to my sons … ’ , the question can be broken down into two parts : do these words amount to a trust at all ? |