Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [conj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About one hundred and fifty wounded patients are treated and eighty major operations conducted each month . |
| 2 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 3 | Up to the end of 1987/88 , 31 private centres had been validated and 6 had been turned down . |
| 4 | ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’ |
| 5 | The sustainable yield from the fishery by these methods , which have little effect on other fish species , and no significant effect on dolphins , turtles , or sea birds , has been calculated as 45,000 tonnes per year — 35,000 tonnes of adult fish taken by longlines , and 10,000 juveniles , taken by trolling . |
| 6 | The distance has been given as 4500 light-years , but may be as much as 7000 , in which case it must be more than a million times as luminous as the Sun . |
| 7 | For nearly thirty years that crusade has been regarded as one of his least successful , whereas a later British Crusade at Earls Court in London in 1966 has always been seen as a triumph . |
| 8 | The little man who has been regarded as one of the most astute politicians of his day , smiled at me . |
| 9 | It has been regarded as one of the two nearby stars sufficiently like the Sun to be candidates as centres of planetary systems ( Epsilon Eridani is the other ) . |
| 10 | He said that one police officer found guilty of abuses had been discharged , three had been punished and five were under investigation . |
| 11 | So far much hampered by lack of money and staff about 1.5 million catalogue entries have been completed and 2,665,000 photographs produced . |
| 12 | We have now reached the stage where the planning and programming stages have been completed and four locations have been successfully implemented . |
| 13 | Only a small part of the side of the boat and rail are depicted and three blues show up again and again throughout the collection and seem to draw one 's attention to a detail otherwise missed . |
| 14 | ‘ So far , 97 operations due to have been performed early this week have been cancelled and 80 out of 200 NHS beds in the hospital have been rendered unusable . |
| 15 | A public inquiry into enforcement action by Stockton Borough Council against L and LW Casey and Company over a rundown area of Stockton has been cancelled because one of those involved is seriously ill . |
| 16 | Wood Group Offshore , Great Yarmouth , has been nominated as one of the collection points in Yarmouth with two sub agents : Aberdeen Cargo Handling Services Ltd and Grampian Shipping in Peterhead . |
| 17 | I understand that of the 24 nations scheduled to take part 20 have already been nominated and four will have to qualify at the Catania tournament in Sicily this April . |
| 18 | I understand that of the 24 nations scheduled to take part 20 have already been nominated and four will have to qualify at the Catania tournament in Sicily this April . |
| 19 | Examples from the Orloff and Orléans-Panthièvre services are included and one of the best pieces from the latter is a soup tureen by Edmé-Pierre Balzac , made in Paris in 1757–58 and now estimated to make FFr3–5m ( £300–500,000 , $530–880,000 ) . |
| 20 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 21 | Earlier , clashes with riot police had been reported when 10,000-15,000 demonstrators marched on the presidential office in Taipei on Sept. 9 to demand a plebiscite on Taiwan rejoining the UN as an independent country , on the release of dissidents and on the repeal of sedition laws . |
| 22 | Biliary extracorporeal lithotripsy has been considered as one of the alternatives to surgery for the treatment of stones in the bile ducts and in the gall bladder in selected patients . |
| 23 | The damage to the mast has been repaired and three Army officers , Garfield Smith , Nick Bate and Richard Nicholson , have joined the crew , Mandy Gallow and Tim Morris having made a scheduled return to duty . |
| 24 | DONALD McKENZIE of Ellister , EFFERICK McKENZIE , wife of John McVeir alias McDONALD and sister of DONALD McKENZIE , and KATHARIN NcINDUGHLASSIE of Ellister were arrested and brought before Archibald Campbell of Cluaness Baillie of Islay on 16 May 1699 ( a full year after the crime is said to have been committed and six days before John McVeir was taken before the Baillie ) . |
| 25 | [ An interference is deemed to have been committed when one surfer ‘ drops in ’ on another , that is , takes off on a wave on which the other has already established priority . |
| 26 | At least two strikers were reported to have been wounded and two more badly beaten as the Army dislodged strikers from their occupation of the installations of the Tela Railroad Company , a subsidiary of the United States United Fruit Company . |
| 27 | The first casualty reports from the Pentagon said 11 US troops had been killed in action , 39 had been wounded and one man was missing . |
| 28 | Second Tuesday suppers had been organised and 15 to 20 students were going to Birnam . |
| 29 | Since the Trust was founded in 1960 Alton and Petersfield have been organised as one area ( the Trust have seven areas and the IoW ) . |
| 30 | For example , the prevalence of disability for those aged 80 + is 674 per 1000 population when only private households are considered and 714 per 1000 when the institutional population is included ( see Table 4.2 ) . |