Example sentences of "[num] [prep] the [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long birdie putt Beck had earlier holed for an eagle three at the 13th had been a turning point , but for Norman , who does not normally play the week before the Masters , this must have also given him encouragement . |
| 2 | Council tax levels ranging from 294 for the lowest value property band to 882 for the highest have been proposed by Lothian Regional Council 's Finance Committee . |
| 3 | One of the first to emerge was DFDP from Atlanta Signal processing ( Fig. 1 ) , at one time marketed by Texas Instruments . |
| 4 | One of the first to pass was the possibility of an easy collar , or any other kind of collar . |
| 5 | Photographs show it as an expanding , immensely complex gas-cloud , and in its centre there is a pulsar , one of the few to have been identified optically . |
| 6 | After a four-and-a-half-month trial and several appeals , four of the 16 accused were released . |
| 7 | At this stage news came of a revolt of the Irish Catholics against the Protestant ascendancy , in which thousands of the latter had been slaughtered . |
| 8 | The increased participation rates from the 1950s to the 1980s have been largely accounted for by reductions in the gaps in employment records around childbearing . |