Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The notes below are intended to consider three areas only and to be illustrative rather than prescriptive as an inflexible attitude towards fees can adversely affect the generation of new business . |
| 2 | The following 6 routines are designed to last 8 weeks each and they become progressively harder . |
| 3 | Twenty-five acts are booked to do seven minutes each and no one does a spot shorter than 15 . |
| 4 | The proceedings are expected to last 2 days . |
| 5 | The band are expected to perform two sets on the night and a number of special guests will be announced in the coming weeks . |
| 6 | This season the company has exported 640,000 tonnes of cereals and malt , while imports for the year are expected to exceed 200,000 tonnes . |
| 7 | Grade 7s and above are expected to give three months . |
| 8 | Those projects are expected to create 1,294 jobs . |
| 9 | Executives going on the course are expected to do 20–30 hours pre-work , in which they read the book and , with the help of questionnaires , assess themselves , their management styles and values . |
| 10 | And some bidders are expected to buy 2 tractors , so they can get their collection off to a good start . |
| 11 | From a modest 1,000 tonnes a year in the early 1970s , the world 's prawn farms are expected to produce 440,000 tonnes by 1990 . |
| 12 | Hospital caterers have a budget of about £10 per person per week with which they are expected to provide three meals a day plus drinks . |
| 13 | Harris says the 88110 Symmetric Superscalar microprocessors are up to five times faster than the 88100/200 combinations in the Night Hawk 4000 and with secondary cache are expected to achieve 70 SPECmarks per microprocessor . |
| 14 | Women today are considered to have two choices — to work or to stay at home . |
| 15 | Some boats are reported to take 500–600 animals during a 3-month season . |
| 16 | Often they are seen to have three ingredients : a cognitive ingredient ( what I believe , say , about pollution ) ; an affective ingredient ( how I feel about pollution ) ; and a behavioural ingredient ( what I am prepared to do about pollution ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Benjamin Barnett and Dave Matthews compliment each other well up front , and we are looking to take 12 points from the last eight games and finish mid-table , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 18 | The three AA batteries are said to give 40 hours of continues operation , with a Lithium cell providing back-up when it is turned off . |
| 19 | The topics of the modules are selected using two criteria . |
| 20 | Most graphs are used to compare two things by giving a picture of how their respective values alter over the range of the graph . |
| 21 | Both are used to put two sentences together into one . |
| 22 | These men are going to spend two weeks installing desperately needed cooking facilities within several orphanges and the Region is pleased to give them its full support . |
| 23 | He figures in the future , the world 's management information system departments are going to juggle two environments , Microsoft Corp Windows NT and Unix and that the real loser is all of this is IBM 's OS/2 . |
| 24 | ‘ We are genuinely worried that we are going to get 200,000 kids outside our front door , she 's becoming so popular , ’ said Waterman dressed as ever in sharp shirt , and jeans . |
| 25 | Rockwell wrote to his brother : ‘ Prince and I are going to fly ten hours tomorrow , and we 'll do our best to kill one or two Germans for Victor . ’ |
| 26 | Initially we are aiming to publish two editions ( Central News 1 and Central News 2 ) which will consist of a 30 minute video cassette and a two colour Activity Book . |
| 27 | Also we are aiming to get four issues out next year on a regular basis , so your stories will be even more welcome . |
| 28 | The two are aiming to develop three demonstrators for advanced pattern recognition systems that could be used for data analysis . |
| 29 | The two are scheduled to have six hours of talks at the White House tomorrow on agenda that include trade negotiations , Bosnia and the despatching of a US special envoy to Northern Ireland . |
| 30 | The South Africans are scheduled to play nine matches , including two Tests , in France next month before coming to England and if that leg of the tour is also chopped the French would be obvious candidates to fill Twickenham in their place . |