Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [adj] [pron] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1933 until 1937 he had been Director of Propaganda and Deputy Leader of the British Union of Fascists . |
| 2 | It would , however , be preferable to have a bile duct free of stones , and Johnson et al recently reported that in such patients initially treated with an endoprosthesis , eight of 10 who had been given ursodeoxycholic acid had cleared their stones within six months compared with only one of 10 not given this bile acid . |
| 3 | The lords agreed to this proposal immediately , and established a new council which consisted of the Archbishop of Canterbury , William of Wykeham Bishop of Winchester , and eight of those who had been appointed to the advisory committee , including March , Arundel and Stafford . |
| 4 | Three of those who died were pedestrians , one a driver , one a car passenger . |
| 5 | It was not undertaken in 11 of those who had been subject to suffocation , five referred before the po 2 monitor was available , four patients >1 year with infrequent events , two for whom social problems resulted in a prolonged hospital stay , and one who died before admission . |
| 6 | It guarantees a place to anyone aged 18 to 25 who has been unemployed for over six months , and attempts to offer a place to anyone up to 50 who has been unemployed for over two years . |
| 7 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 8 | provide a mainly academic education for pupils aged 11 to 19 who have been selected on the basis of ability . |
| 9 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |
| 10 | The Austrian government on Sept. 16 rejected a request for political asylum from Markus Wolf , the former head of East German intelligence from 1958 to 1987 who had been in the Soviet Union for the past year and who was wanted in Germany on charges of espionage . |
| 11 | It denied , however , that the reactor was one of two which had been turned off after particular criticism . |
| 12 | As for Svengali , Owen Jones was one of several who had been mesmerised out of Port Talbot by Burton 's powers . |
| 13 | The 21-bed Clevedon hospital near Weston-super-Mare is one of those which has been accredited . |
| 14 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 15 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 16 | One of those who signed was three-year-old Robert Lynch , of Darndale , who is two months younger than Johnathan Ball . |
| 17 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 18 | ‘ ALASTAIR MORTON is terrific at crisis management , but he is no good when it comes to running a settled organisation , ’ says one of those who has been left , somewhat bruised , along the wayside of Mr Morton 's whirlwind career . |
| 19 | The survey showed that only one-third of those who had been on courses generated the training themselves . |
| 20 | Best of all , from 1937 until 1939 he had been ‘ Leader , British National Socialist Party , London , England ’ . |