Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Health Authority figures show some outpatients who 've been referred by their GP to an orthapedic consultant there , may have to wait more than 2 years just to be seen . |
| 2 | Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home . |
| 3 | They had travelled 2,000 miles only to be disappointed by cruel coincidence . |
| 4 | 1st round 2nd round Total ( Feb. 24 ) ( March 4-10 ) Communist Party of Lithuania ( independent ) 27 13 40 Lithuanian Communist Party ( CPSU platform ) 4 1 5 Social Democratic Party 9 0 9 Green Party 2 2 4 Democratic Party 0 3 3 Christian Democratic Party 2 0 2 Humanism and Progress Party 0 0 0 Independents 46 24 70 Total 90 ( 72 ) ** 43 ( 20 ) ** 133* ( 92 ) * Results with eight seats still to be decided . |
| 5 | Provisional results from the general election on April 29 indicated that Sir Dawda Jawara , leader of the Progressive People 's Party ( PPP ) , had secured at least 60 per cent of votes cast in the presidential poll ; in the elections to the 36-member House of Representatives , with the results from eight seats still to be counted , the PPP had won 20 seats , the National Convention Party five , the Gambia People 's Party one , and independent candidates two . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Harrytown is one of only 13 schools nationally to be involved in phase one of the Technology Enhancement Programme . |
| 7 | So you used to take these five sums out to be marked and he 'd put right , tick , right , wrong , right , you know . |
| 8 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 9 | The unemployed fan is believed to have moved from Scotland to Peckham , south London two years ago to be closer to Helena , whose films include Lady Jane and Room With A View . |
| 10 | In 1971 Michael ( two years later to be Sir Michael ) Clapham succeeded Lord Kings Norton as Chairman of the Council , and Edwin Kerr was appointed to take over from Frank Hornby in 1972 . |
| 11 | The first two years of education were to be the academic years , and there were proposals for these two years also to be seen as discrete and eligible for a Diploma of Higher Education . |
| 12 | There were a hundred questions still to be asked and answered , but at this speed and in this noise speech was impossible . |
| 13 | But their differences are greater than their similarities and the four glens now to be described are all worthy of leisurely exploration and indeed make delightful excursions . |
| 14 | The North-Eastern Railway set aside 200 guineas annually to be divided among the 60 best-kept stations , divided into four groups . |