Example sentences of "be a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd be a million fools by now , |
| 2 | Yeah , there must be a million Marks about |
| 3 | Christ , that 's gon na be a thousand pounds on a full comprehensive , just about . |
| 4 | Because what happens , as soon as he 's , go goes back to work , it goes back down again , to what would be a thousand pounds for any future claims to start with again . |
| 5 | There might be a thousand methods for closing the deal , but in the end the customers will buy only if they want to buy . |
| 6 | You know with a balloon , there 's just got to be a better ways of doing it instead of having to use boring ways . |
| 7 | ‘ Is n't it possible , though , that the other girl could be a hundred kilometres from here and that this one was dumped here to put you off the scent ? ’ |
| 8 | Back at the boats , I reflect that if the Grand Canyon dam is ever built , most of what I can see will be a hundred feet under water . |
| 9 | You 're going to get charged for the amount going through will be a hundred electrons per second times sixty seconds . |
| 10 | It might be a hundred years from now for all I know . ’ |
| 11 | There would also be a dozen girls from the brothel in attendance , they would provide colour , and nothing more . |
| 12 | In place of a sandy , open heath , supporting a rough pasture , there would be a dozen miles of flowering hawthorn in time , enclosing small fields that were being assiduously marled to produce corn crops . |
| 13 | Birthtales looks forward to the day when these female experiences are considered to be a valid subjects for inclusion in galleries . |
| 14 | There will always , however , be a few cases in which the clinician thinks that it is inappropriate to ask for organs . |
| 15 | What will be a few minutes of footage on the screen took all day to film . |
| 16 | I mean the view that astronomers and most scientists and people who are interested in astronomy had was that there might be a few molecules in space , probably not very many , but if there were they would be very , very simple , probably one or two atoms , perhaps things like water , perhaps things like ammonia , and things like methane — molecules with a large amount of hydrogen attached to them and in fact a thermodynamically staple species . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's going to be a lot of fun and there will be a few surprises in the interval , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Well , it 'll be dry this evening and for much of the night , but the cloud 's going to thicken and there could be a few spots of light rain over high ground by dawn . |
| 19 | The temperature will only rise a little this afternoon — we can expect around nine or ten degrees celsius , that 's about forty eight fahrenheit , but there will be a few spots in the east that will get a degree or two higher . |
| 20 | There have to be a few secrets between a woman and her dybbuk . |
| 21 | In actual fact , all that may be offered may be a few strands of tobacco which , in many contexts , are assumed to suffice . |
| 22 | There 'll still be a few showers around this evening , but they 'll die out later . |
| 23 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 24 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 25 | Judging from letters I have received , and some I have seen published in various magazines , there seems to be a few misconceptions about the precise way in which bar codes operate . |
| 26 | ‘ There must be a few votes for an old soldier in the British Legion clubs , ’ he says optimistically . |
| 27 | There may be a few examples of marsh woundwort stachys palustris still flowering during October . |
| 28 | It need only be a few seconds of me singin' or something but you 'd be gettin' straight to a certain type of literate , intelligent audience . |
| 29 | ‘ There will be a few candidates for doing the same thing in this part of the world if he gets away with it , ’ one Welsh international said , ‘ and I for one will be very interested to see how it develops . |
| 30 | A float could be on the cards by the end of next year , but before then there could be a few punch-ups with Britain 's farmers who provide all the milk to make the cheese . |