Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many have spent up to three years as refugees and nearly all have been forced to flee from Salvadorean army and air force attacks on their homes . |
| 2 | Milton 's Poems 1645 which includes works such as Lycidas took over twenty years to sell out its first edition , which , at best , was something of the order of 1500 copies and more likely to have been much less , probably a few hundred . |
| 3 | I have been extremely fortunate to have worked in three scientific spheres : botanical , paleontological and malacological , over 19 years and even luckier to have been able to do scientific illustrating for publication , on subjects as diverse as grass flowers and tiny rodent jawbones ! |
| 4 | Now John Hunter noted there was an association between the quantity of the vessels and the tumour and recently this has been er shown with micro-vessel quantification to be an important problems to indicator |
| 5 | So far , only 1,234 of 1,920 have entered into negotiations with universities for permanent positions and only 85 have been given contracts . |
| 6 | In contrast to the costly and sophisticated technology employed by the major companies were simple but effective ‘ home studios ’ costing under £1,000 by 1985 , the average price of four-track recording machines had come down to £500 and over 20,000 had been sold in Britain . |