Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [noun] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lower levels of activity are expected in 1993 but investment continues to be made in order to streamline services . |
| 2 | George died in 1906 at the age of fifty-nine and Mary lived to be eighty-four . |
| 3 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 4 | However , this is not what was expected from Study 1 where recall seemed to be strongly related to ratings of subjective risk . |
| 5 | It was not until the 1960s that battle-lines began to be drawn , with Labour in favour of comprehensivization and the Conservatives against ; and even then the Conservatives in central government were not hard-line opponents of this policy in the way that , by the end of the decade , Labour had become hard-line advocates . |
| 6 | It went up to £1.3 million when tunnelling had to be done . |
| 7 | It is significant that charity law was unable to accommodate the modern contemporary social welfare and recreational trusts that developed in the 1940s and 1950s and legislation had to be passed to deem them charitable , provided the public benefit element was there . |