Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe in the future , like the Chinese , we will only be allowed one child . |
| 2 | It had to be a success — she knew she would only be allowed one failure . |
| 3 | It insists that paper can only be recycled four times before it disintegrates , and claims that if Scandinavia stopped producing primary fibre Europe would run out of paper in six months . |
| 4 | See the minister , priest or rabbi to book the big day ( register office weddings can only be booked three months in advance ) |
| 5 | The actual names will only be required 12 weeks prior to departure , after which there will be an amendment charge if there are any changes . |
| 6 | This week it 's our drama series , Family Pride , the country 's first Asian soap opera , which goes out at teatime on Thursdays and will soon be shown three nights a week on Channel Four . |
| 7 | Now , another story that is er an interesting one this morning , and I 'd like to hear your view on , families with two television sets could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 8 | Families with more than one telly , could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licence . |
| 9 | Families with two tellies could soon be paying twenty pounds extra for their licences , to lessen the burden on hard-up viewers . |
| 10 | Member States would normally be given eighteen months within which to incorporate the directive objectives into their domestic laws , but it may well be that in this case a shorter period is specified . |
| 11 | With an endowment , you can top it up to cover the extra borrowing and it will still be repaid 25 years after you bought your very first house . |
| 12 | But he will still be organising 13,000 volunteers into bringing some kind of Christmas to 125,000 needy , lonely or down-and-out people . |
| 13 | In any case , ‘ going concern ’ is interpreted in present auditing guidelines as meaning that the company will still be operating six months after the date of the audit report or one year after the date of the balance sheet , when that may be further ahead than company directors can see in the middle of a recession . |
| 14 | He was led into the development of sensitive instruments for this purpose , and his most lasting achievement was undoubtedly the ‘ gold-leaf electroscope ’ which could still be found 200 years later in school science laboratories as a detector of electrical charge . |
| 15 | If he could ever be granted one wish in his life , he knew exactly what it would be . |
| 16 | It would also be sending 140 tonnes of food aid to Somalis in the refugee camps of Yemen . |
| 17 | I did do that along with Ron and er they were speaking in terms of er a conjurer at under a pound a time and thing of that nature which should then come to a the pensioner 's category at Poole , so I took it back to Stuart and he said oh see what I can do Norman , and at the present moment it rests there because I have n't been able to contact Stuart at the moment owed to the holiday , but I shall be contacting him and hopefully we will also be doing two days , which is the Tuesday and the Thursday , also what they , er , he 's , he 's promised to do is to come half way with the cost of the jazz band , which is a great help . |
| 18 | The '90s will probably be remembered one day as the time of technological advance . |
| 19 | Although many East Germans will in future be able to go to Czechoslovakia with official permission , applications must now be made four weeks in advance . |
| 20 | There is therefore a determinate outcome ( ruling out ties ) ; e.g. , in the education example , with the order of voting ( L against M , winner against H ) , the outcome is H. In this case , the determination of the order of voting — and the termination rule -is clearly crucial , and the indeterminacy may simply be pushed one stage further back . |
| 21 | If the individual kept on offending , he would simply be given six months ' custodial sentence for each offence — not to run concurrently , but consecutively . |
| 22 | The Serbs will then be given 15 days to stop all flights over the country , US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney said . |
| 23 | We will once again be offering two piano improvisation courses for a limited number of people , meeting on each QT day throughout the year . |
| 24 | On assumptions similar to those made in the preceding paragraph Labour would win 21 of the 30 constituency seats , would have a claim to 25 seats altogether , and would therefore be awarded four list seats . |