Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [modal v] be [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAVID MELLOR and Eldorado were in the running but the judges agreed there could be only one Turkey of the Year — the European Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 2 | That will be the next stage we shall be working on over the next half-year or so , and what we do want to do is to seek the help of all the local authorities and teachers in this work , because one should perhaps put things into context , we 're a committee of twenty-two people , we have a staff , which when they 're all fully employed they 'll be about fifty , we have a budget of two million , but we have got to communicate with something like four hundred to five hundred thousand teachers , something like erm five thousand secondary schools and twenty-six thousand primary schools . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd be about thirty or more , ’ he said lamely . |
| 4 | Sir Archibald Sinclair , the Secretary of State for Air , thought there should be only one company , and Lord Beaverbrook stated that free enterprise should have the widest possible scope in the operation of the companies . |
| 5 | I thought it would be just two or three people . |
| 6 | Pakistan should be even better as a five-day team than they proved they could be over 50 overs . |
| 7 | ‘ A fortnight and you said you 'd be away ten days at the most . ’ |
| 8 | She said there would be about 150 spending cuts in Mr Clinton 's economic agenda , amounting to about $34 billion , but she declined to say whether this included health care savings . |