Example sentences of "[num] [noun prp] [pron] be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the evening of 12 March they were opposite Crail . |
| 2 | They had to travel over extremely bad terrain on the way but by 13 December they were in place . |
| 3 | By 8 August he was in Barcelona , unable to speak a word of Spanish but armed with a press card . |
| 4 | ‘ If the process is allowed to achieve a more relaxed rhythm of its own and we are given enough time to handle the international consequences , the Soviet leadership probably could live with the kind of confederal links between the two Germanys which are under discussion now . ’ |
| 5 | Some 200 ships were involved and by midnight on 24 April they were in position off the Gallipoli coast . |