Example sentences of "be [num] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How high are fifty-five thousand feet , anyway ? ’ |
| 2 | According to the Driver Vehicle Licensing Centre in Swansea , there are 70,361 17-year-old men with full licences in Britain at the moment , and 39,417 women of the same age . |
| 3 | There are 120 adult magazines legally for sale in Britain . |
| 4 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |
| 5 | Now , says the breed society secretary , Libby Henson , there are 500 registered breeders with some 3,000 cattle from Orkney to Cornwall and a strong unrequited demand from Germany . |
| 6 | There are 35,000 empty houses , not just those in Swindon . |
| 7 | As you 'll see from the diagram , in the year of opening in nineteen ninety nine , on the central section of the l outer northern relief road there are eight thousand vehicles a day using that that road , that 's eight thousand vehicles a day that wo n't be would n't be passing through Knaresborough and through Harrogate . |
| 8 | There are eight such standards of which No. 2 requires twice the exposure to fade to a given extent as No. 1 , No. 3 twice that of No. 2 and so on . |
| 9 | There are eight general headings in the guidelines : |
| 10 | There are eight other lines of action which the Plans Project has identified as a means of recovering ground or of preventing mistakes from being compounded . |
| 11 | There are eight other tables in the room . |
| 12 | There are eight other recordings of the Barber Piano Sonata in the catalogue , but to my mind the most thrilling and satisfying is that by this artist , who created the work in 1949 : his quicksilver delicacy in the scherzo is unsurpassed , and the dazzling virtuosity of the fugal finale makes one want to stand and cheer . |
| 13 | There are eight long rays emanating from the head ; but without a text , uncertainty remains as to their precise identification . |
| 14 | Remember that , although there are eight factorial combinations in Example 16.1 , only seven comparisons are of interest , namely : |
| 15 | There are eight million stories in the big city … and MOONSHAKE know all the grisliest . |
| 16 | There are eight technical auditors headed by Henry Lilburn ; all eight were previously clerks of works . |
| 17 | According to the psychologist Robert Plutchik there are eight primary emotions : fear , surprise , sadness , disgust , anger , anticipation , joy , and acceptance . |
| 18 | There are eight accounting modules : nominal ledger ; invoicing ; stock control ; budgeting ; sales ledger ; purchase ledger ; purchasing ; and auditing . |
| 19 | ‘ There are eight known cuts it carries out , ’ said Prof John Kay of the University of Wales College of Cardiff , who carried out some of the work in collaboration with Roche . |
| 20 | In taking this decision , there are eight main factors to be taken into account : |
| 21 | There are eight corporate plaintiffs . |
| 22 | There are eight licensed bars and coffee lounges , all open half an hour before the show and at the intervals , during normal licensing hours . |
| 23 | There are eight large paintings , including a crucifixion scene and other apocalyptic subjects vaguely reminding of Stanley Spencer , and twenty smaller pictures . |
| 24 | In other words , at low energies there are thirty-seven different states in which the ball can exist . |
| 25 | There are 334 individual items in nineteen different ranges available to the customers of Stoddard Templeton . |
| 26 | There are eleven cosy bedrooms , most with private bathrooms and colour TV . |
| 27 | In all , there are eleven complete statements ( plus the fade ) . |
| 28 | There are eleven paid women deacons in Salisbury , one of whom , Stella Collins , is rural dean for Wylye and Wilton , and another Jane Lloyd , hospital chaplain at Poole . |
| 29 | There are 550 traditional off-licences carrying the basic Thresher range and 450 ‘ wine shops ’ moving away from cigarettes and brands to concentrate on wine . |
| 30 | Descharreaux expects first half 1993 turnover in France to be ‘ terrible , due to the constricted investment climate ’ , adding , ‘ Do n't forget there have been eight consecutive quarters of decline in investment in France ’ . |