Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 2 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the banks can only be advanced , so selecting from bank five to bank four means the pedal has to be pressed four times . |
| 4 | ‘ Something has to be resolved one way or the other , ’ Cabochon said , expending a vast amount of mental energy mustering concern for the group . |
| 5 | The market for mushrooms is reported to be approaching 190,000 tonnes , three-quarters of which are bought fresh . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 7 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 8 | The glow is weak , and needs to be amplified 30,000 times to be visible . |
| 9 | In time there came to be installed six sets of two jigs , each set holding 5 tons in the base and requiring emptying twice weekly . |
| 10 | This is said to be saving 1,000,000 bags per week — including 20,000 gallons of oil and 20 tonnes of plastic involved in their manufacture . |
| 11 | Kuwait was said to be deporting 50-100 Bedoun through Safwan to Iraq every week . |
| 12 | In this one , a frenzied crowd seemed to be dismantling two locomotives made of rubber . |
| 13 | Further along the bay , it seemed to be taking five flunkeys in grey uniforms a lot of effort to usher one middle-aged man into a chauffeur-driven Bentley . |
| 14 | In 1979 Seve seemed to be giving 101 percent . |
| 15 | As a matter of fact , however , the Bristol-Coventry game happened to be running five minutes late . |
| 16 | In the end the attack had had to be postponed forty-eight hours , so that , once again , the advantage of a sychronised effort on both sides of the Meuse was lost . |
| 17 | I wonder if ‘ name and address supplied ’ would volunteer to be chased five miles by an angry mob being happy in the knowledge that when caught he or she would not be beaten up but dispatched humanely ? |
| 18 | The US Air Force is going to be installing 350 DEC Alpha AXP workstations by April . |
| 19 | If you think you 've got it bad now , how would you like to be paid six shillings a ton to collect pebbles along the cold surf in Norfolk ? |
| 20 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 21 | Strategy for Personal RISC Systems began to be laid two years ago , according to Filip , who consulted with PC chief Jim Cannavino and cut the deal with Nobi Mii , head of the Entry Systems Technology Group . |
| 22 | By the evening of I5 May the immediate emergency which had seemed to be threatening 5 Corps with the approach of an estimated 600,000 Germans and Croats from the south was over . |
| 23 | ‘ I can not see how they are going to pay all of us from membership dues , ’ an embittered party bureaucrat said at headquarters , adding that most of them would have to be given six months ' notice . |
| 24 | The idea of a referendum had been supported by a petition with 516,000 signatures ; any such referendum would have to be held five months before the elections , planned for June 1992 . |
| 25 | The amendment , originally moved by Lord Ferrers in the House of Lords , required that if any Commons vote on a matter devolved to Scotland was passed by the votes of Scottish MPs , then a second vote on the matter would have to be taken two weeks after the first . |
| 26 | The recommendations of the Royal Commission 's report of 1889 ( Chapter 6 ) were embodied in a Bill which was presented to Parliament , and needed to be introduced four times before it was finally accepted onto the Statute book . |
| 27 | A NEWSPAPER removed from the back of a drawer proved to be dated 2 August , 1897 . |
| 28 | The picture of the fuel cycle now emerging at the inquiry suggests that large quantities of spent fuel from nuclear power stations are going to have to be stored three times : first underwater in ponds at each power station ; secondly , at the new repository , and thirdly , after reprocessing — until such time as the British government decides how to dispose of high level nuclear waste . |
| 29 | The new company , headquartered in Paris , expects to be employing 100 people within three years . |
| 30 | ‘ I can now concentrate on getting back into commercial brewing and doing what I know best — making fine , traditional Yorkshire ales , ’ says Theakston , who has set up his new business next door to T&R Theakston and expects to be making 12,500 barrels a year by 1995 . |