Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [num] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say , in effect , ‘ If thou wishest to feel good about thyself , thou shalt be X and Y and Z. And conversely when thou findest thyself being not-X or not-Y or not-Z , thou shalt pay for thy transgression with a loss of self-esteem . ’ |
| 2 | Thus the temperature increase at high latitudes experienced during global warming should be two or three times greater than the warming experienced in the tropics , where enhanced convection , carrying sensible heat away from the ground , acts as a negative feedback . |
| 3 | For the tall man , the lie should be one or two degrees more upright . |
| 4 | The course should be five and a half miles as the crow flies . |
| 5 | I feel that there should be four or five other tournaments around the country to play in order for them just to get to the national championships . |
| 6 | The person who signs the form should be 18 or over . |
| 7 | The Zuwaya thought it should be 1000 and so did the policeman . |
| 8 | ‘ Should be ten but the eldest got drunk and fell in the river ! ’ |
| 9 | She must be eight and a half . |
| 10 | You must be 17 or under , and the closing date is September 14 . |
| 11 | Darlington Harriers are arranging a 10km fund raising fun run for August 30 , starting at 11am on High Row you must be 17 or over to take part . |
| 12 | yeah cos er , yeah he must be two and a half , cos er |
| 13 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 14 | Terminating a finite line of length I with this characteristic impedance forces But from equations ( 9.78 ) , ( 9.79 ) and ( 9.80 ) To satisfy equations ( 9.83 ) , ( 9.84 ) and ( 9.85 ) simultaneously , the current must be zero and so equation ( 9.82 ) applies again . |
| 15 | Since each firm sets price equal to marginal cost , the marginal cost of the last meal must be 5 and the marginal cost of the last film must be 10 . |
| 16 | Talk to the management experts in your company ( there must be one or two around ) Learn from them . |
| 17 | Inevitably there must be one or two recording breaks . |
| 18 | We have no direct evidence as to whether the matter in other galaxies is made up of protons and neutrons or antiprotons and antineutrons , but it must be one or the other : there can not be a mixture in a single galaxy because in that case we would again observe a lot of radiation from annihilations . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly , some of you will be , but there must be one or two people who are actually dreading Christmas er bearing in mind that they 've had to ask somebody whom they do n't really want in their house , or perhaps that person or people have asked themselves , and it 's very difficult to know how to refuse is n't it really ? |
| 20 | I think , I think most criminals , I mean , there there must be one or two who er er , too dangerous to be let loose on society , |
| 21 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 22 | ‘ There must be thirty or forty shotguns in this neighbourhood , sir , but there are only two firearms on our books , one revolver and one automatic . ’ |
| 23 | Year and year since I used to get up make fire for Alice in the mornings , this is , must be ten or twelve year since , and light a cig up . |
| 24 | ‘ There must be forty or more . ’ |
| 25 | He must be forty or more . |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't heard from him for , well , it must be three or four days , but then often … |
| 27 | Although it must be three or four in the morning , there were still lights showing on Lord Jim . |
| 28 | It was hoped that there might be one or more lawyers in post in the relatively near future . |
| 29 | There was a shortage of trained teachers and the planning of schools reflected this circumstance ; most of the instruction was done in a large school-room , off which there might be one or two classrooms which were used for teaching smaller groups . |
| 30 | I could see him wondering whether to warn the bursar he might be one or two fees short next term . |