Example sentences of "[num] and [pron] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The instructions that John Thorseby , Archbishop of York , issued for the clergy in 1357 and which were on his instructions expounded by the Benedictine monk , John Gaytrick , in a vernacular version known as the Lay Folks ' Catechism , give insight into the framework of thought within which life was assimilated to , and ordered by , Christian belief — the groundwork of assumptions that mystical writers in the vernacular could take for granted . |
| 2 | My age is 64 years , but I feel more like a man of 30 and I am mentally more alert ’ . |
| 3 | Mackay did not return to Scotland after 1885 and there is little evidence that he thought of himself as a Scot , except in a very conventional , stereotypical way . |
| 4 | The standard BC109 quotes a range of 180 to 800 and you are less likely to find you have a suitable device . |
| 5 | They have this , they have this MP there from the S D L P from nineteen sixty-nine to seventy-two and he 's a , a pacifist , he went to the , apparently he went to and spoke to the leader of the provisional I R A |
| 6 | The prisoner had broken his fast on Oct. 12 and there was no evidence that he had died as a result of the strike . |
| 7 | Anne was supposed to be 12 and I was actually 14 when I did it . |
| 8 | ‘ But I went back to my first dancing teacher who taught me when I was 12 and it was like five hours of physiotherapy every day . |
| 9 | The university wants to expand from 6,800 students to 15,000 by 2030 and it is clear some private fee-paying would be instrumental in that expansion . |
| 10 | The hon. Gentleman is proposing something entirely different , which would certainly be without the law , which is not an advance on 1993 and which is probably impossible . |
| 11 | A new 20% initial allowance will be available for industrial and agricultural buildings that currently qualify for writing-down allowances , provided that they are constructed under a contract entered into between 1 November 1992 and 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use for the purposes of a qualifying trade by 31 December 1994 . |
| 12 | In his Autumn Statement ( p 124 ) , the Chancellor of the Exchequer raised the first year capital allowance for plant and machinery ( excluding cars ) to 40% for 12 months from 1 November 1992 and introduced an initial allowance of 20% for industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 13 | An initial allowance of 20% will apply for expenditure on new industrial and agricultural buildings where contracts are placed before 31 October 1993 and they are brought into use before the end of 1994 . |
| 14 | Billed as the Wedgwood Group Carnival Day 1993 and It 's A Knockout , one of the main attractions will include a pottery antiques roadshow with valuations by expert Peter Williams , author of ‘ Wedgwood — A Collector 's Guide ’ . |
| 15 | The British Goverenemnt wants all ferries to be updated by 1993 and it 's trying to persuade the rest of the world to agree , but the families say its taking too long . |
| 16 | ‘ We are determined to return to profitability during 1993 and I am pleased to say that overall our plans to achieve this appear to be well on course , ’ he said . |
| 17 | It was back in 1972 and we were testing the waters , talking about this new magazine we wanted to launch which would campaign for an end to world poverty . |
| 18 | During the Cienfuegos speech Castro confirmed that work on the Juraga nuclear power plant in Cienfuegos , the construction work on which was begun in 1972 and which was now 90 per cent complete at an estimated cost of US$1,000 million , had been halted indefinitely for lack of funds . |
| 19 | It is 1972 and I am travelling in a minibus through the Bekaa Valley , The Times correspondent in Ireland on holiday in Lebanon , unwittingly choosing to spend my vacation in the country in which I shall much later spend more than 13 years of my life . |
| 20 | It was eight forty-five and they were nearing the church , passing now into one of the low tunnels that spanned the canal . |
| 21 | Every house had one or two people who were over forty-five and it was misery for them . |
| 22 | The Baroque had already made an appearance in Prague before 1620 and it was used by both protestants and Catholics . |
| 23 | Day 2 and we are raring to go , working on yesterday 's high . |
| 24 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |
| 25 | I have not been able to examine a copy of the rare " The Tourist 's Guide to Islay , the Queen of the Hebrides , with Directory of the Island and Descriptive Excursions to all Parts thereof " which was published by Wilson & M'Cormick in Glasgow , about 1881 and which was probably written by , Robert Oliphant who is listed in the Directory as accountant . |
| 26 | He was then 67 and she was 63 . |
| 27 | Oh God , thought Preston , I 'm only thirty-six and it 's started already . |
| 28 | He was only thirty-six and I was too young to remember much about it . |
| 29 | He was thirty-five to forty and it was assumed that he was an army intelligence officer . |
| 30 | Well food rationing began in January nineteen forty and I 'm sure you 're all familiar with with ration books . |