Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [adj] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THIS five-year-old mare will go hurdling after being unbeaten in two bumpers last season . |
| 2 | Dessie Farrell , one of the few Dublin players to emerge from last with his reputation intact , is back in the side today after being absent for two months through injury . |
| 3 | At a stroke our artistic patrimony has been increased by a treasure which is about to go on display after being unseen for seventy years . |
| 4 | I–m staying with you , ’ the younger woman said , horrified at the thought of being alone in one of these darkened rooms . |
| 5 | The Indonesian Environment Minister , Emil Salim , has accused PT Tebor of being responsible for 80 per cent of all the waste from factories along the river . |
| 6 | compensation for suspected cases instead of being dilatory for 18 months , the problem would have been contained much more quickly . |
| 7 | Gower Jones , who was also educated at the Llandaff School , managed to enlist in the Monmouthshire Regiment despite being blind in one eye . |
| 8 | Assume that individuals migrate between districts until the benefit they drive from being resident in one locality is equal to the benefit they derive from being in another . |
| 9 | Women motorists have been urged to be vigilant after two women were raped after three men flagged them down in a country lane in Bedfordshire . |
| 10 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 11 | ‘ You appear to be familiar with two groups of the old : the wingeing paranoid dimwits who can think of nothing better to do than queue unnecessarily , and the depraved and corrupt denizens of ffeatherstonehaugh 's . |
| 12 | But , however rapidly the filmmakers who built their reputations during the war may have disillusioned the critics , with their narrow concept of what the nation 's filmmakers should be doing , British filmmakers had reason to be confident in 1945 . |
| 13 | In terms of outcome the relocation of the north London operations proved to be successful with 95 per cent of the ex-north London eligible categories continuing to work in Stevenage and some 90 per cent of this group still there one year later . |
| 14 | Bad as were the irregularities of the Freeholders ' elections , the irregularities in the burghs were , if anything , worse , one of the reasons being that while the county representative needed only one election meeting to be appointed , the burgh representative had to be successful in two elections before he could get to Westminster . |
| 15 | ‘ Some day you 're going to be sorry about one of these chances you take . |
| 16 | LAW and gospel have traditionally been thought to be opposed to one another . |
| 17 | Your suspects are likely to be opposed to one another in different ways ( if they are not , you have chosen people who do not adequately reflect different aspects of your theme ) and if they are opposed it is not unlikely that they will quarrel , again about your theme . |
| 18 | They say minim we 've got to be minimum of nine players , we 've only got eight . |
| 19 | I thought I had sufficiently mastered the vernacular to be idiot-proof until one time in the Smoky Mountains resort of Gatlinburg , Tennessee . |
| 20 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 21 | His first appearance in surviving records appears to be late in 1249 , when he was appointed the abbot of Westminster 's attorney for litigation in the Common Bench . |
| 22 | The Manchurian Academy trained others who were to be prominent after 1945 . |
| 23 | All molecular vibrations therefore have some zero-point energy , and this can be shown to be equal to one half of a quantum , so that the total vibrational energy of a molecule with only one normal vibration is where ν is the vibrational quantum number , a positive integer or zero . |
| 24 | Elizabeth was known to be alive in 1851 , aged about eighty . |
| 25 | And conversely , in the exalté atmosphere of Northern Nigeria , a Resident who admitted defeat at the hands of his emir was deemed to be guilty of two unpardonable sins : he disgraced by his ineptitude the good name of the British Colonial Service ; and he brought the whole principle of local administrative autonomy into disrepute . |
| 26 | That cost will now be shared with MCI , which expects the venture to be profitable after two years . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , Graham reckons that Big Blue does n't actually need to do anything different , not even grow its revenues , to be profitable in 1994 , possibly by the end of 1993 . |
| 28 | And that I had the nerve and the cheek , the audacity to be tired at fifteen years of age i i it it it was n't possible . |
| 29 | Two men would remain ‘ on shift ’ , to be relieved by two others when all of the team had returned through this furious storm to Central Headquarters . |
| 30 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |