Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [adv] [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hears that an anti-government demonstration is to take place in the Beirut suburb of Basta — a Shia district which 30 years later will be controlled by pro-Iranian militiamen — and he takes a taxi to investigate : |
| 2 | Although there are plenty of small traders around to whom EDI still means nothing , BT predicts that within two to three years over 50,000 firms worldwide will be using it . |
| 3 | The excitement beckons — and I 'll go no further at this stage than to wonder whether the Championship record of exactly 100 years ago might be repeated in 1992 , when England beat Ireland , Wales and Scotland ( just ! ) , |
| 4 | IF A volcanic eruption were suddenly to cover Retford , say , or Camborne , under 12 feet of ash and lava , archaeologists working 2,000 years hence would be unlikely to find a town nearly as civilised and comfortable as Pompeii . |
| 5 | Action : 100 packages only can be updated and approved in a single run of Update Baseline — update the package structure in portions |
| 6 | Several recent trials have shown that ventouse extraction in difficult labour is preferable for the mother to forceps. 12,000 women annually would be spared pain-killing injections , 10,000 would avoid pain and 5,000 would avoid severe tissue injury : from the British Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology 1990 . |
| 7 | ON January 1 the National Centre for Alternative Technology , one of the focal points in Britain 's emerging green network , is going public and eight weeks later will be launching a £1.25 million share issue . |
| 8 | Erm and it must have been oh I do n't know , two or three years ago must be at least two or three years ago when we were talking about , umm-ing and ah-ing , and she said well do n't forget if ever you want to lose this just let me know . |
| 9 | THE launch of Hitler 's deadly V2 rockets 50 years ago WILL be marked in Germany , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 10 | 7029 ‘ Clun Castle ’ made several trips in the North during September and October 1967 , and to see what single-chimneyed Castle could do 25 years later would be very interesting . |
| 11 | Photos of my mum taken twenty-five years ago could be of me , we look so alike — but she does think I 'm too scruffy . |
| 12 | If that run continues against a Rangers side who have won their last 15 games , re-confirmed Skol Cup winners and supercharged by the prolific McCoist , then not even the attacking flair which destroyed Stuttgart 4-1 at Elland Road five weeks ago may be enough . |
| 13 | Given that so much of the enthusiasm for ‘ law and order ’ in Britain has been marshalled by the Conservative Party during the late 1970s , a simple impression of how different things were ( or were not ) twenty years ago can be gleaned from the business of Conservative Party conferences in the two periods . |
| 14 | It could be , and indeed it is my belief , that the chemical industry of twenty years hence will be more of a service industry and less of a manufacturing industry . |
| 15 | Where both policies carry an excess , the greater of the two excesses only shall be deducted before the apportionment . |
| 16 | The ‘ general government expenditure ’ for the two periods respectively will be 256.2bn , up from 236.5bn . |
| 17 | The company hopes that between 10 million and 11 million passengers annually will be using the service within two years — 25 per cent more than used British Rail 's services on the two lines . |
| 18 | James Chin , head of the AIDS surveillance and forecasting unit of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , estimated that by 1995 more than 15,000,000 adults worldwide would be infected with HIV ( human immunodeficiency virus ) , while 500,000-1,000,000 people would die of AIDS each year in developing countries by the end of the decade . |