Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest my mum goes is forty pounds cos she does n't think she should spend a lot of money on a pair of trainers that wo n't last . |
| 2 | The average attendance in the 121 years of its existence has been 60–80 pupils . |
| 3 | The mass of lead(II) iodide produced was 2.305 g . |
| 4 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 5 | The mix used was two x 2 gallon buckets of building sand , one bucket of Portland cement and 250 grams of fibres — this mix is specified in the pamphlet that comes with the product . |
| 6 | In Britain there has been a notable tension between the demands of law and order ideology and the practical impossibility of increasing prison populations exponentially , and this tension has been one factor encouraging the phenomenon of ‘ bifurcation ’ ( see Chapter 1 ) . |
| 7 | The implication of it relating strictly to tariff involves an assumption that the tariff advised was 17 years ' detention as punishment for retribution and deterrence . |
| 8 | Mr. West had in fact calculated its weight to have been 1,771 tons . |
| 9 | Given that our Association had been 75 years outside the wider Trade Union Movement , our Delegates were concerned at what type of reception they might receive from the Conference . |
| 10 | From April 1 , 1989 , the limit for advice and assistance provided to a petitioner for divorce or judicial separation has been three times the sum for preparation for magistrates ' court criminal proceedings ; and in other cases , two times that sum . |
| 11 | Despite appointing a succession of managers his only return has been one League Cup triumph . |
| 12 | Second bottom United were five points from a survival spot at the start of this week , though they have played more games than any of the three clubs immediately above them . |
| 13 | The average length of the colonic loop studied was 20 cm . |
| 14 | Allowing the child to play is one way parents will have used of spooning food into the child 's mouth . |
| 15 | The move follows six months of negotiations during which the City of London , which owns some of the land on which the polytechnic is built , stuck out for a rent that one expert said was three times the market value ( New Scientist , 6 January , p 7 ) . |
| 16 | The turning point for me came after scum had been one fo the chosen matches for about 8 weeks in succession , then one evening it seemed they were nt . |
| 17 | Two days later we were in the grips of another Hebbert epic , running round the High Level Route to get back to Wasdale Head for 10.00pm — our estimated time of return had been three hours earlier ! |
| 18 | More importantly , in the beginning all the band needed was one hook line . |
| 19 | Clearly cancelling the preview had been one option the producers had discussed . |
| 20 | Lome IV was signed in December 1989 ( see p. 37133 ) and was to come into effect in March 1990 for a 10-year period ( unlike the previous conventions , whose duration had been five years ) . |
| 21 | The microscope , improving radically in the early nineteenth century so that its images no longer had coloured fringes all around them , was perhaps as important as the telescope had been two centuries earlier . |
| 22 | In the beginning all the band had was one hook line . |
| 23 | In other words the money spent was one way of stopping ‘ leakage ’ to other denominations ; the new chapels also tended to enhance loyalty and to lessen disaffection over trifling matters . |
| 24 | At the same time Brotherton ( 1983 ) using documentary evidence has demonstrated that the rate of afforestation has been three times greater outside the National Parks . |
| 25 | The event has been 9 months in the making . |
| 26 | The distance involved was 90 miles in six hours , the route being in the Chichester area . |
| 27 | The distance involved is 300000000 kilometres , twice the Earth 's distance from the Sun . |
| 28 | The show 's organisers and officials of the Canadian Hellenic Congress , an organisation of Greeks in Canada , say the exhibition has been five years in the making and that it reflects the excellent cultural ties between Greeks and Canadians . |
| 29 | [ W ] hat a Constitution says is one thing , and what actually happens in practice may be quite another . |
| 30 | The minimum age requested is 16 years old . |