Example sentences of "be [verb] several [noun] " in BNC.

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1 British space officials do not expect any major difficulties in finding the money for INTEGRAL , because ESA science programmes are paid out of the subscriptions of member states which are calculated several years in advance .
2 They are given several balloons and the object is to try and hit them over the heads of the team opposite and onto the floor .
3 This is an acceptable solution if we expect to concentrate on one form of arithmetic for a number of instructions , but if we are using several forms ( for example , floating-point calculations with address computation in fixed-point format ) then we have to change the contents of the mode register continually .
4 The latter has a chequered history and has been altered several times within its life in Poland .
5 The amounts as well as qualifying ages have been altered several times since 1986/87 , so any rebate would only apply to allowances that would have been due to you at the time .
6 Provisions relating to ancient monuments have been amended several times , the latest being 1983 when the National Heritage Act was passed .
7 Its origins were Queen Anne but it had been remodelled several times , most radically at the turn of the century when it had become the holiday home of a London architect .
8 One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie .
9 Within the framework of the current definition ( a permanent gluten sensitive enteropathy ) , clinical , pathological , epidemiological , and immunological approaches are revealing several forms of coeliac disease .
10 First-stage tinies progress to playing variations on Twinkle , Twinkle , Little Star and by school age are tackling several tunes .
11 It had been imposed at the height of serious anti-government rioting and pogroms in February 1990 [ see p. 37256 ] , and had been shortened several times , but only now was the security situation deemed by the city 's military commandant to have stabilized .
12 In fact it is probable that it has been repopulated several times .
13 What you see now has been rebuilt several times , although the medieval foundations still exist .
14 Moreover , despite the lack of artefacts , the bath-house at Catterick had been heavily used to judge by the state of the furnace cheeks , which had been rebuilt several times , and of the iron beams supporting the hot-water boilers , one of which had been completely burnt through .
15 There is a certain kudos in it , like the attitude towards Patrick Chauvel ( who has been wounded several times covering wars ) , and there 's Capa 's : ‘ If your photos are n't good enough you 're not close enough . ’
16 He had been wounded several times , twice seriously enough to have his life despaired of ; he had twice suffered the rigours of exile .
17 She had been stabbed several times .
18 After this has been done several times , the actual frequency of reorganization can be compared with that expected , and the future reorganization schedule will be based on the results .
19 It has been said several times in this chapter that tone is carried by the tonic syllable , and it is now necessary to examine this statement more carefully .
20 He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 .
21 If you are fitting several lights ( downlighters or eyeball spots , say ) , run this cable to the nearest fitting , and then run cable from this to the next nearest , and so on to the last .
22 Andrew Warren , the director of the Association for Energy Conservation , commented that the document contained no new ideas and " could have been written several years ago " .
23 It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced .
24 She has been seen several times over the years .
25 Nevertheless he shot the ‘ Singapore Tiger ’ , an arrogant character who had been seen several times before and was strutting ahead of his large patrol when the Corporal 's bullet killed him .
26 With her was New York estate agent Jeffrey Epstein , who has been seen several times with Ghislaine .
27 That significant marine action extends to quite high levels is well known.Wentworth ( 1938 ) has for instance described an example from the Hawaiian Islands , where a block of tuff weighing about 7 tons has been moved several feet fro its natural position at an elevation of 12m ( 40 ft ) on an exposed cliff .
28 A security guard has been shot several times during a bungled armed robbery attempt outside a bank.The guard was shot in the leg by two men just after he arrived in a security van , but it seems the raiders escaped empty handed .
29 In hotels where bookings are made several months in advance , charts for each month are prepared .
30 But if you 're taking several medicines , you might forget which medicine is for what .
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