Example sentences of "[num] [vb base] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peak numbers are usually noted in September , when flocks totalling up to 1,600 have been noted in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and flocks of up to 200 have been seen elsewhere along the coast . |
| 2 | More than 800 have been sold since 1964 — equivalent to one every seven working days — with 84 per cent going for export , sixty per cent of the North American market . |
| 3 | For example , up to 105 have been seen at Manhood End , 80 at Harting pond , 70 at Swanbourne Lake , 105 in the Arun valley , and 30 at Rodmell , all since 1965 . |
| 4 | Salati and Vose ( 1983 ) , for example , believe that of the 8 x 10 6 km 2 of tropical forests that have been converted to agriculture , some 3 × 10 6 km 2 are now under shifting cultivation while 3.5 × 10 6 k 2 have been converted to pasture . |
| 5 | The models of language awareness training described in Tables 1 and 2 have been developed in work with staff in further education colleges . |
| 6 | Already 10 systems have been sold in the UK , mainly to local authorities , and another 140 have been installed in mainland Europe . |
| 7 | Fuller information is being prepared by the Finance Council and this will be issued in May when figures for the first three months of 1993 have been prepared by our financial auditors . |
| 8 | Events occurring before 16th June 1993 have been reflected in the Accounts to the extent required by SSAP 17 . |
| 9 | These results together confirm the presence of the AD1 sequence in the genome and indicate that this type III repeat is encoded by a single gene . |
| 10 | In Brazil , despite some progress , half the remaining Awa-Guaja still flee contact with the whites and hundreds have been killed by local ranchers and loggers . |
| 11 | Many hundreds have been arrested on suspicion of corruption ; after referendums last month , the voting system is being changed ( to reduce the power of the party bosses ) and state subsidies for political parties are being abolished . |
| 12 | The Sw.Fr 150 million 1996 Notes outstanding at the end of 1991 have been swapped into £58 million at an interest rate of 6.85 per cent . |
| 13 | Hae III followed by Hind III have been found to be the most discriminatory restriction endonucleases with which to cut H pylori . |
| 14 | Although automatic and semi-automatic high-bay warehousing systems are being built abroad at an ever increasing rate — some 2,000 have been constructed in Japan in the last fifteen years — the rate of development in the United Kingdom may only be described as slow . |
| 15 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 16 | None of the other species listed in Table 2.1 have been found to be significant accumulators of bone . |
| 17 | Some 90,000 have been dismissed from their jobs for political reasons and thousands have been imprisoned for long sentences . |
| 18 | Thus , while most winters produce short cold snaps which have been accepted as part of the normal pattern , the effects of the quite exceptionally severe winters of early 1947 , 1956 , and 1963 have been allowed for when making comparisons . |
| 19 | The Thornton Gate Mineral sidings , which since 1963 have been used as a rail store , showing car 170 towing a train of rail bogies . |
| 20 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 21 | Various dates ranging from 1850 to 1870 have been suggested for its inauguration , but the first newspaper report , in the Craven Herald , was in 1882 . |
| 22 | And had the latter been the case , Churchill , almost his only substantial political ally of 1936 , would in 1940 have been confronted with a very awkward decision as to whether to intern his sovereign . |
| 23 | Sixty-seven parties fought the election of 1991 ; 29 won seats in parliament ; a dozen have been jockeying for seats in coalition governments . |
| 24 | But it does not concede that any of the remaining 24 models failed the Government 's test , even though at least three have been withdrawn from the market . |
| 25 | OF the more than 500 known radio pulsars , only three have been detected as γ -ray sources . |
| 26 | The three have been released pending forensic examinations of the drugs . |
| 27 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 28 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 29 | Of the 29 rifts identified in Africa , five have led to continental separation and a further three have been associated with the movement of Madagascar away from the African mainland . |
| 30 | Out of the eighty cases , thirty three have been dealt with in the following manner — 23 sent to Homes in Plymouth and London ; 1 sent to service in London , where she is doing well , 5 married and doing well ; 2 returned to their parents ; 1 provided with employment as a machinist and doing well ; 1 with children sent to the workhouse . |