Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [modal v] be [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was a New Man before New Men had capital letters , but I feel like an Old Man these days , and all I can think is that by the time this one is through university I 'll be nearly sixty . |
| 2 | What he had first taken for height he soon realized was a product of high — very high — heels , and he guessed that without the lifts she would be around five foot , pleasantly featured , with a round face and perfectly round brown eyes that looked almost serene until he realized how hard they were . |
| 3 | The manager ca n't justifiably desert either of his regulars at the moment but knows that if he walked the street and canvassed the fans there would be only one answer : bring on the Frenchman ! |
| 4 | But er as a rule there 'd be about sixteen or there about . |
| 5 | But what I 'm saying is some schools they might be here seventy five days out of a hundred but for twenty of those |
| 6 | If we beat Blackburn we will be only 2 points behind then and have an excellent chance of securing a place in the UEFA cup next year . |
| 7 | It occurred to her far too late that in a contest between fire and ice there could be only one victor . |
| 8 | Each of course you 'd be about seventeen years . |
| 9 | Some day it might be a bit less other days it will be more thirty umm but on an average we like to work out the girls to about thirty to twenty five a day . |
| 10 | I have never lived any nearer than a mile from a public bus and at one point it would be maybe two and a half miles from that bus , so my children , well my children are grown up now , but my children got nowhere or did nothing if I did n't drive nobody delivers the shopping nobody goes |
| 11 | I have n't noticed I 've lost any weight only that me clothes have gone a bit loose , it must be only a couple of pounds literally but on Mrs scales I 'm half a stone lighter , but I do n't think so by tomorrow night I 'll be about eleven , ten |
| 12 | Well one day you 'll be about eighty , dear and you 'll be the one sat there and someone saying , bloody hell look at that old codger behind the wheel ! |
| 13 | ‘ And because of his unusual name there can be only one Martin Offiah . ’ |
| 14 | Additionally , the wife herself must be over 60 to qualify . |
| 15 | But at Pipeline on a non-competition day there might be over twenty in a scrum around the peak as if they were shooting Marilyn Monroe . |
| 16 | In fact , if every Briton decided to go to the seaside on the same day there would be only four inches of sand per person ! |
| 17 | Twice daily , the tide comes in , and each day it will be approximately 50 minutes later than the previous day . |
| 18 | It all seemed a thousand miles from the nearest town , though in actuality it might be only five or six . |
| 19 | In 1975 Dr ( later Lord ) William Marshall , the country 's leading champion of nuclear power , lamented before a House of Lords ' committee that at the current rate of progress there might be only two fast reactors on line by 2000 . |
| 20 | They predict that if no controls are placed on CFC and halon emissions there will be over 150 million extra cases of skin cancer in white US citizens born before 2075 . |
| 21 | Like the babes in the wood , I suppose — though in our case there will be only one babe , since I by then will be an old lady ! ’ |
| 22 | A very large increase , and of course some of them are living longer — instead of three or four per cent over what we call retirement age there will be perhaps six , as now in China , there may be eight , into the next century ten . |
| 23 | They are magnificent birds to watch in flight , soaring effortlessly on wings which can be over two metres from tip to tip . |
| 24 | Even if we win our two outstanding games we would be virtually seven points behind . |
| 25 | Here the problem rests on the fact that for orthodox Marxism there can be only one ‘ other ’ , that of the working class , into which all other oppressed groups , so-called ‘ minorities ’ , must in the last instance be subsumed . |
| 26 | And that 's not quite on so that would bring it a little bit it might be about ninety two or something it might |
| 27 | In today 's money it would be about thirty five million . |
| 28 | The club has been given an allocation of 17,800 by the Football Association , and after season ticket holders and club commitments there will be about 12,000 tickets left for Gold Card holders who have collected the three vouchers at the home games against Ipswich , Plymouth and Middlesbrough . |
| 29 | Whether they are aboard here or on Santorini it will be all one to them when they join us in what Lieutenant Denholm is pleased to call vaporized orbit . ’ |
| 30 | The Bank concludes that , despite the remarkable fall in the headline rate last month , the underlying level of inflation is still close to the top end of the target range of 1 per cent to 4 per cent , though at this stage of the cycle it should be below 2 per cent , and the cost pressures created by devaluation have still to feed fully into the economy . |