Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [Wh pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches . |
| 2 | Police have managed to track down 30 people who were in the town centre when the attack occurred , but admit witnesses are proving difficult to find . |
| 3 | He points out that when , in 1990 , the recession forced Robson Rhodes to let go 12 students who were under contract , all of them were placed in another firm of chartered accountants . |
| 4 | Column 5 shows that the UFC 's method of applying a threshold to broad subject categories covering a range of departments is particularly hard on the 7 departments who were above the national average for their particular subject category but will receive nothing . |
| 5 | By 1307 the English baronage included three out of eleven earls who were of ‘ foreign ’ origin — Pembroke ( Aymer de Valence ) , Richmond ( Jean of Brittany ) and Cornwall ( Gaveston ) . |
| 6 | I understand there 's only three people who are from the same team as last year . |
| 7 | Three people who were in the car at the time were injured in the crash , one of them seriously . |
| 8 | In fact his schedule was then changed , and on 24 May Gen McCreery began his tour of 5 Corps area by visiting units of 46 Division who were to be concerned with the repatriation of the Cossacks . |
| 9 | In the same 1943 raid , Torquay was also bombed again and the deaf centre escaped with minor blast damage when a bomb fell on the St. Marychurch building a few yards up the road , killing 18 children who were in the building . |
| 10 | On June 17 Jordan launched an international appeal to halt the trials and to help save five Jordanians who were among those sentenced to death . |
| 11 | I know one boy who was on drugs for a year before his parents found out . ’ |
| 12 | An instance of the kind of fluidity I have in mind occurred for one boy who was in role as a ‘ robot controller ’ . |
| 13 | I think one person who is in their thirty or forties or two people so , you know you ca n't really quantify that very easily . |
| 14 | Er we did have one person who was in her early twenties but er she gave it up . |
| 15 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 16 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were erm wanting to disrupt the teaching of their erm of their teachers , and really problems were reduced to individuals in teach class , one or two pupils , which erm did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups had done previously . |
| 17 | There were no longer groups of pupils in any one class who were against the school and were wanting to disrupt the teaching of their teachers and really problems were reduced to individuals in each class , one or two pupils , which did n't present the same massive problem to teachers as the bottom streamed groups have done previously . |
| 18 | And er after that it was just well every man for himself I never really saw any of the guys except for the o one guy who was on the platform with me at the time . |
| 19 | Number One , would you tell McKenzie to warn the four seamen who were with us tonight that they are on no account to mention the fact that we were on the Delos . |
| 20 | Usually the two pilots who are on night duty sleep in the ambulance but the driver and medical orderly who also sleep in it had worked up a terrific ‘ fug ’ — ‘ Imshi ’ Mason and I felt we could not cope with the smell of unwashed feet , etc. , so we dragged the two stretchers out . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The two dykes who were in here that same night . |
| 22 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 23 | ‘ Knowing the true relationship between two people who are in flight can be most helpful . ’ |
| 24 | And you had get the two people who were at the back , you have to get them out before you landed because when you when you brought the flaps up if they were still in this little bay you would squash them to death and one day his dials showed that he had , in fact , squashed them to death ! |
| 25 | What choice have you given the million people who 're on the waiting list for National Health Service ? |
| 26 | Llanelli are concerned that they must play the most important game of their season without four players who are with the Wales under-21 team to play Scotland , and three others who are injured . |
| 27 | The two girls who were near my age cut the material . |
| 28 | Now I suppose for most of us because of the very fact were here this morning they have been few and far between such experiences , perhaps what is more common is that we may have spent time with someone who was dying , their last few hours , their last few minutes , and if they were not unconscious I wonder what sort of conversation would be going on between us and them , what sort of things would we , would we of been saying , what would we be asking us , well in this passage that we have been reading we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death , death can only be hours away for both of them , and here they have this conversation , it was in that sense it was one of the strangest interviews any body ever had with Jesus not only is the , the account here of er a death bed conversion , but the one who is saving is also in the process of dying . |
| 29 | Well , in this passage that we 've been reading , we have just such a conversation , two men who are on the verge of death . |
| 30 | Of the 60,000 nurses who were in training in 1986 , less than 10,000 were over the age of twenty-six . |