Example sentences of "and [num] [adj] [noun] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few years over 800 exchange lines and 300 private lines were in use operating from the new headquarters of the amalgamated telephone companies , the National Telephone Company Headquarters at 13 Royal Exchange Square . |
| 2 | Two Christian solicitors are needed to represent young people in Wolverhampton and six voluntary organisations are in danger of going under because they need an accountant . |
| 3 | The 43 US and 21 Canadian stores are on the mend at last , but McGinley has his sights fixed on expansion in Europe . |
| 4 | THE jobs of between 10,000 and 20,000 civil servants are at risk in Wales , union leaders claimed yesterday . |
| 5 | Since the penetrance of this recessive susceptibility gene for Crohn 's disease in the homozygote was almost complete , the risk of disease in a child with one parent with Crohn 's disease induced by this gene and one unaffected parent is about 30×10 -4 — namely , half the estimated gene frequency in the background population . |
| 6 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 7 | AT LEAST one man was killed and five British tourists were among 14 people injured when a man threw a bomb at a tour bus on the road to the Pyramids in Cairo today . |
| 8 | Of the 168 vacancies thus created , 42 were to be filled by new borough seats , including eight new London seats and seats for Manchester , Leeds , and Birmingham ; 55 were to be devoted to the provision of additional members for countries , to augment what had traditionally been regarded as the most " independent " element in the representative system ; and nine new places were to be given to Scotland , Ireland and Wales . |
| 9 | Twelve international and nine national trophies are to be awarded in different classes . |
| 10 | More technology colleges , a greater scientific and business role for Teesside and 9,000 new jobs are among priorities in a ten-point ‘ manifesto ’ outlined by Stockton South Conservative candidate Tim Devlin . |
| 11 | More technology colleges , a greater scientific and business role for Teesside and 9,000 new jobs are among priorities in a ten-point ‘ manifesto ’ outlined by Stockton South Conservative candidate Tim Devlin . |
| 12 | As a result judges award far too many soft sentences — the seven years given to Dr Tom Courtney for two rapes and two indecent assaults is by no means the only example . |
| 13 | Meanwhile work continued at Tilberthwaite and two new tunnels were in hand one said to be upon the South Lode , the other in a lode cut in a rooting slate quarry , probably Penny Rigg . |
| 14 | I mentioned earlier that we closed the erm , Royal Minton factory and four other factories are on short time , but we continued to invest in operation efficiency to improve our competitive position and er , now over to er , to James . |
| 15 | Between them , 10 non-native speakers and four native speakers were in training , with a further four non-native speakers doing subsidiary methods . |