Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [noun] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MILLIONS of small investors are being lured to the latest £5b sell-off of BT shares with a first instalment as low as £180 plus a package of discounts or other incentives . |
| 2 | A team of Oxfam charity workers has returned from Iraq warning the plight of millions of ordinary Iraqis is being ignored . |
| 3 | You know it seems it awful really that two of those places were are n't they ? all these , all the forest |
| 4 | In total , some £290 million of private investment is being spent or is programmed . |
| 5 | The approach we 've taken which is set set out in our our submission in section seven , we 've we believe that maybe some nine hundred additional sites could be found , this is in addition to the existing allocations , er some nine hundred additional sites could be found within Greater York , by making changes to the boundary of the greenbelt , we you do it the greenbelt is too extensive in some parts , it can be rolled back without affecting the the purpose , erm Mr Donson 's already already identified those areas , if that 's the case , on our figures a settlement of fourteen hundred plus nine hundred on other sites is is is quite achievable . |
| 6 | Hundreds of thousands of elderly people are being abused in their own homes — physically and emotionally neglected ; sexually abused ; and financially abused . |
| 7 | Every so often the sound of a dropped pencil or pen would break the solitude , but apart from that the only sound was that of the wind outside , whipping around the building , hurling rain at the windows so hard it sounded as if thousands of tiny pebbles were being bounced off the glass . |
| 8 | Welcome back:Hundreds of thousands of archaeological treasures are being kept hidden away because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 9 | Welcome back:Hundreds of thousands of archaeological treasures are being kept hidden away because there 's nowhere to display them . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , commissions were attempting to finalize drafts of the various congress declarations , but dozens of contradictory amendments were being tabled by the various delegations . |