Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] be [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceiling was or today is fifty percent , tomorrow it will be er fifty thousand pounds , tomorrow it will be twenty thousand pounds and erm I 'm very much tying this in with para four four eight on page ten . |
| 2 | As an individual who worked for over 10 years in relatively senior positions for two of the ‘ major brewers ’ , I thought it ironic that here was one set of red tape specialists accusing another . |
| 3 | Second , if a traveller goes eastwards halfway round the Earth he will have passed through 12 time zones and gained 12 hours with respect to GMT ; he will meet another traveller who has travelled westward and so is 12 time zones ( 12 hours ) behind GMT . |
| 4 | A dozen stray cats were asleep under a Con Edison awning and so were two winos . |
| 5 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 6 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 7 | And here is 20,000 francs . |
| 8 | South Africa and here is one battle . |
| 9 | Art is indeed a mystery — a ‘ truth which is above reason ’ , and here are two facets of it , which , if we are honest , must have perplexed most of us . |
| 10 | So the next night this m the man comes down to the shore and here was two men with a rowing boat . |
| 11 | And underneath are four skid feet , so you can slide your Freestyle out whenever you want . |
| 12 | Feedback and feedforward are two methods of ensuring that all three come together . |
| 13 | ( For example , 2 times 2 is 4 , but so is -2 times -2 . ) |
| 14 | You can choose any topic you like , but here are two beginnings to get you going : |
| 15 | Look into the future is far more difficult but here are ten predictions for 1992 : |
| 16 | The façade is very fine , with typical Tuscan arcading in four rows to the top of the gable while below are three doorways set in a marble panelled and inlaid front . |
| 17 | INFLATION is widely expected to accelerate towards 7.5 per cent late this year after yesterday 's one point increase to 15 per cent in base rates made higher mortgage interest rates inevitable . |
| 18 | Until Naive Prober tries one of its probing defections the players might as well be two Tit for Tats . |