Example sentences of "[num] [conj] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 'll have to go on the document location erm sheet B eight or something is n't it ? |
| 2 | And about nineteen twenty eight or something was n't it ? |
| 3 | I think all the work that we did indicates that there the productivity is one issue , that unless you 're doing the two point eight or whatever 's in the budget , you know , we 're not gon na get near it . |
| 4 | and giving us tuition on real antique furniture , he does n't do anything in his shop erm after eighteen forty or it 's all more or less Georgian , very Georgian actually . |
| 5 | The " consultations " failed , prompting all the main political groups in Kuwait to form a joint delegation which informed Shaikh Saad on March 30 that it was not prepared to join a new government before a timetable for political reform had been established . |
| 6 | The United States government announced on July 30 that it was to scale down or close 79 of its defence bases in Europe , following its January 1991 decision to halve its military presence in Europe . |
| 7 | The Bundesbank announced on Aug. 30 that it was to honour some DM250,000,000 of outstanding interest payments which were still due on a debt agreement reached in 1953 with its Western creditors . |
| 8 | The German government , citing cost and changed security needs following the end of the Cold War , confirmed on June 30 that it was to withdraw from the multinational European Fighter Aircraft ( EFA ) project . |
| 9 | The UN had announced on Sept. 30 that it was suspending its humanitarian operations in southern Sudan . |
| 10 | The rebel Movement for Democracy and Development ( MDD ) announced on Oct. 30 that it was repudiating reconciliation agreements which it had signed with the government in Libreville , Gabon , on June 24 [ see pp. 38952 ; 39132 ] . |
| 11 | Bush said on Nov. 30 that he was prepared to go " the extra mile for peace " , proposing that Iraq 's Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz should visit Washington for talks with him in mid-December and that this be followed by Baker visiting Baghdad . |
| 12 | In the light of the OAS decision , Fujimori stated on Aug. 30 that there was no remaining excuse for political parties not to participate in the elections . |
| 13 | The chances are almost two-to-one that he was brought up in a fatherless household . |
| 14 | The French Foreign Minister , Roland Dumas , said on Aug. 22 that there was " as yet " no evidence of official Iranian involvement ; there had been fears that the incident , coming on top of the recent difficulties in resolving a financial dispute between France and Iran [ see p. 38363 ] , could jeopardize a planned visit to Iran by French President Mitterrand . |
| 15 | The Deputy Prosecutor-General of Russia , Yevgeny Lisov , who had carried out the investigation , said on Jan. 22 that there was no evidence implicating former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in the coup , but that his actions might have led the conspirators to think that they could count on his support . |
| 16 | The government of Papua New Guinea announced on Feb. 22 that it was about to hold peace talks with the Bougainville Revolutionary Army ( BRA ) aimed at ending the secessionist rebellion which began in 1988 and had claimed at least 100 lives . |
| 17 | The government confirmed on April 22 that it was pursuing a policy of devaluing the yuan in small , frequent steps , in an effort to boost exports and curb imports . |
| 18 | Following Chin 's accidental death in 1960 , it was not until 1972 that he was able to reduce and finally to leave cardiac work ; and from then until his retirement in June 1987 he devoted himself to chest surgery at Southampton , Basingstoke and King Edward VII Hospital , Midhurst . |
| 19 | A trade-union official had told Margaret Irwin in the 1890s that there was a " growing tendency to give " not only lean but fat work to women piece-workers . |
| 20 | Pinochet had ordered his own investigations into the affair , as had the government , which denied on Nov. 12 that it was waging a campaign against the Army . |
| 21 | The EMD also announced on Dec. 12 that it was dissolving P-27 after the weekly paper Weltwoche revealed the identity of its head . |
| 22 | Standard Chartered said on June 12 that it was launching criminal proceedings in India to recover an estimated US$299,800,000 lost in the securities scandal . |
| 23 | If you are male , the odds are about 1 in 12 that you are colourblind . |
| 24 | 12 That he was beastly to women . |
| 25 | The odds can not be far from 50/50 that you are reading these words through glass lenses . |
| 26 | Money poured in and work began in 1493 although it was to be a century before the work was completed ; this timescale explains the stylistic variation of the church , with elements of both Renaissance and Baroque architecture . |
| 27 | ( S. ) 417 that it was wrong in principle to impose a consecutive community service order on an offender already subject to an order if the effect was to create a combination of orders whose total length exceeded 240 hours . |
| 28 | At Key Stage 2 although there are chronological periods of study which must be covered , and a choice of thematic units , there is a wide degree of flexibility . |
| 29 | It is clear from Figure 7.4 that there is no evidence of this actually taking place in the description task . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm thirty-nine so there 's still time — but only just . ’ |