Example sentences of "it [modal v] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the hay is fit to cart , bale , or tripod ( and only experience can tell you when it is ‘ singing ’ ) it may be raked two rows into one ( and possibly four into one ) . |
| 2 | Erm , medium status it may go up to more like five minutes , very high status it may be approaching ten minutes , okay ? |
| 3 | Charman felt it should be split four ways between each band member , but Gedge thought he should have most of it because he had actually written the songs . |
| 4 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 5 | Loud music echoed across the site , so loud that it could be heard 10 miles away . |
| 6 | If you listened carefully to what I said , though , most of it could be taken two ways . |
| 7 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 8 | On June 26 the military tribunal had announced that it would be seeking two death penalties against Madani for conspiracy against the authority of the state . |
| 9 | But the chick may not remember these as three separate items ; instead , and more likely , it will adopt a different , and indeed more rational , strategy , and generalize along the lines that ‘ all objects of a certain size , irrespective of colour , are likely to taste bitter and should be avoided ’ ; that is , it would be remembering one item , not three . |
| 10 | It would n't be given as a cos X two X , it would be given two X cos X. |
| 11 | It would be published three times weekly . |
| 12 | On Feb. 26 , 1991 , the Anglo-Dutch food and cleaning products company , Unilever , announced that it would be cutting 5,500 jobs from a total workforce of 110,000 over the next three years . |
| 13 | Quality Beef Growers of York says it will be supplying 30,000 carcasses a year to retailers . |
| 14 | It will be split five ways between the arts , heritage , sport , charities and the Millenium Fund . |
| 15 | From there , it will be transported 1,000 miles overland to Chengdu , at the foot of the Tibetan Mountains , where it will reassembled at the site of a tube-making company . |
| 16 | From there , it will be transported 1,000 miles overland to Chengdu , at the foot of the Tibetan Mountains , where it will be re-assembled at the site of a tube-making company . |
| 17 | This is not because it can be proved one way or the other that either or neither version is the type of play that Marlowe would have written . |