Example sentences of "[num] [noun] be [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In chapter 12 Abraham was given a reason for his going , for the promises came hard on the heels of the command . |
| 2 | About half way through the interview , the forty women were given a test of ‘ self-attitudes ’ developed by the American sociologists Manford H. Kuhn and Thomas S. McPartland , which provides data on this point . |
| 3 | In 1885 Schnadhorst was given a seat on the standing committee of the Liberal Central Association , the party headquarters , and in July 1886 he was appointed secretary of this body . |
| 4 | The maisonette in Plymouth which she and husband Gilbert share with two of their six children is to get a dream kitchen . |
| 5 | A family which has run the same pub for two hundred and fifty years is holding a week of celebrations … |
| 6 | The 1859 committee was dissolved a year later , but only because the government had decided to treat the press with greater subtlety . |
| 7 | The objective in executing these three stages is to construct a document profile which reflects its subject . |
| 8 | Now the club 's 90 members are organising a jumble sale at Wesley Court on Saturday , February 18 to replace the missing funds . |
| 9 | In the South-West , 90 polluters were fined a total of £23,000 , mostly for illegally high discharges of agricultural slurry . |
| 10 | In January 1920 Poland was awarded a Corridor to the sea through West Prussia to the Baltic coast . |
| 11 | You would have to be a professional cobbler-up of sit-coms to give much credence to the available scenarios , but just in case , I suppose they are that : a ) the tests were so incompetently performed that even a baboon 's sample would have produced the same reading as was clocked by the three athletes identically ; b ) the three runners were having a joke at the testers ' expense ; c ) the German trio was deliberately testing the vigilance of the drug monitors at a relatively out-of-the-way venue , for reasons of their own ; d ) that the samples were not urine at all but a draught of refreshing Lucozade , tested in error . |
| 12 | On 24 December 1662 Howard was elected a fellow of the Royal Society ; he almost immediately began to participate in its proceedings , taking a special interest in agrarian and technological matters . |
| 13 | In Maharashtra a group of Shiv Sena members of the legislative assembly , led by Chhagan Bhujpal , announced on Dec. 10 that it had formed the Shiv Sena ( B ) ; on Dec. 21 Bhujpal was appointed a Cabinet minister in the state government . |
| 14 | Is not the Minister embarrassed that 11 countries are signing a protocol stipulating that the United Kingdom will take no part in the Community 's deliberations on the social agenda ? |
| 15 | The next sixty years were to see a rise in the classroom autonomy of teachers allowing them growing discretion within their classrooms . |
| 16 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 17 | On Aug. 31 , Polish radio reported that some 3,500 workers were continuing a sit-in . |
| 18 | The seven percent of the first wave fund-holders was allocated £14.5 million to set up the administrative side of the scheme , but the remaining 93 percent were given a total of £19 million in the 1991 autumn statement . |
| 19 | In 1957 Andronikos was appointed a lecturer in classical archaeology at Thessaloniki University , and in 1961 promoted Professor ; he retired in 1983 . |
| 20 | In 1742 Bayes was elected a fellow of the Royal Society . |
| 21 | By January 1158 Barbarossa was holding a diet at Regensburg to settle internal German disputes . |
| 22 | One warrior is having a fit . |
| 23 | One technique is to excite a jackass with a jenny donkey and then au moment critique , substitute a mare . |
| 24 | One practice is to establish a retirement benefit scheme , whereby the younger partners , instead of paying an initial sum as their share of capital , contribute to the pensions of the senior partners as they go . |
| 25 | I was informed that a group of young teachers at one college were planning a boycott on the day to protests against their poor living conditions and low pay . |
| 26 | First check your water quality — it could be that one fish is indicating a problem that will soon be common to all , such as nitrite poisoning . |
| 27 | One group was given a control solution ( 1% albumin ) and the other four groups were [ Leu 1 5 ] -gastrin-17 ( L-G-17 ) in 1% albumin in the doses shown in the Table . |
| 28 | On 10 March 1779 Wasbrough was granted a patent ( no. 1,213 ) for a ‘ machine , which when applied to a steam-engine or any perpendicular motion … will cause such movement to become circular , without the medium of a water-wheel , for grinding wheat and other grain , and for grinding , rolling , hammering , and other uses in mechanical operations ’ . |
| 29 | In one boot was thrust a riding crop , unusual in that it was as long as a spear and tipped with tiny steel barbs . |
| 30 | The only other thing that I 've thought I might do one day is do a country album . |