Example sentences of "[num] [noun] of [noun pl] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all , over 300 tons of stores will be delivered into Safra this way , with individual aircraft capable of dispatching up to twenty-four one-ton containers per sortie . |
| 2 | ‘ Six pairs of knickers must be enough , must n't it , Charlie ? ’ she enquired of a tall dark-blond young man , unmistakably her brother , who was piling plates into a dishwasher and making two cups of coffee . |
| 3 | Most workers find that four to six sets of analyses can be dealt with even if a very detailed withdrawal pattern is required . |
| 4 | Essentially three sets of concepts can be brought together in relation to life events to help conceptualise possibilities for prevention . |
| 5 | Three sets of issues will be examined : |
| 6 | As soon as these figures are written down , you will know that the answer to the addition of the three rows of figures will be 11977 . |
| 7 | Three samples of pupils will be selected . |
| 8 | In Network Southeast , 3,000 sets of wheels will be damaged this year at a cost of half a million pounds . |
| 9 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 10 | Well look , I do n't know what you 're getting but one portion of chips 'll be enough between us . |
| 11 | One portion of chips 'll be enough between us cos they give you quite a generous helping of chips so I |
| 12 | Usually it has no sides equal but one pair of sides must be parallel . |
| 13 | He points out that this safety exercise is about assessing risk where one set of circumstances might be alright within that particular discipline , but when you actually put that along the side of a similar sort of marginal safe systems , that are in other disciplines , er th that you might end up with a conflict or or or highlighting some form of erm er permutation , that could end up in in what satisfies all the codes and regulations and blue books and whatever , but at the end of can do this and nobody else can . |
| 14 | Sometimes one set of sculptors would be finishing an already countermanded set before the news of yet more changes reached them . |
| 15 | There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’ |
| 16 | At different points of time , one set of ideas may be abandoned and another adopted , and the history of any society consists of a series of such adjustments , some more radical than others . |
| 17 | Less than a third agreed they came by their fees easily , while half felt they made a positive effort to support and understand clients and 59 per cent that they respond very positively to requests for help and advice ( although these two groups of responses should be seen in the light of that ‘ distress purchase ’ attitude , where lawyers are unlikely to be negative when a client suddenly calls up offering business ) . |
| 18 | Two rounds of trumps can be drawn with the Ace and King , and then 3 rounds of Spades played trumping the last losing Spade in dummy . |
| 19 | Then at the right moment the two beams of particles could be brought together to collide . |
| 20 | The initial reaction is to wonder why two sets of parents should be undertaking an identical ritual and yet , obviously , have such different approaches to it . |
| 21 | The two sets of decisions can be understood more easily if thought of in terms of , firstly , assessing need and , secondly , setting priorities . |
| 22 | These two sets of attitudes may be combined in various ways . |
| 23 | The two sets of genes can be expected to ‘ pull together ’ for just the same reasons as all the genes of one individual organism normally pull together . |
| 24 | Even Eldorado gets in on the act and two episodes of EastEnders will be screened , one on Christmas Eve and the other on Christmas Day . |
| 25 | Discussion of these two types of problems will be followed by consideration of what the test for establishing bias actually is . |
| 26 | According to Zhu Bingchen , director of the China Garment Research and Design Centre , ‘ four types of garments will be trendy ’ . |