Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] there [vb mod] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 30 generations there can be no doubt : METHINGS IT lSWLIKE B WECSEL Generation 40 takes us to within one letter of the target : METHINKS IT IS LIKE I WEASEL And the target was finally reached in generation 43 . |
| 2 | There is no heating because there is no fuel , and in 10 or 12 weeks there will be 2ft of snow outside . |
| 3 | Long before it was time to fire he realized that he would have to pull out or crash ; below fifty feet there would be no recovering , not from this angle , not at this speed . |
| 4 | Well that 's like er tarred rope that 's what it was and er used to put a piece through the wire every foot and when you come to six feet there 'd be a piece of leather , cut in cut one piece of leather . |
| 5 | Over six days there 'll be up to 150,000 shots … scattering more than four tons of lead pellets . |
| 6 | During the next three months there will be a number of exhibitions and public meetings to discuss the trust application with Langbaurgh and Middlesbrough residents . |
| 7 | If she made her estate more than a hundred and fifty thousand pounds there 'd be some tax payable , so it 's a question of how much you 've got and both estates have got that exemption of a hundred and fifty thousand pounds . |
| 8 | Aye , now , wait a moment , wait a moment show common sense , if , if , if it 'd happen in America in five minutes there 'd be a hundred bloody policemen out there |
| 9 | I would have been quite happy just to have been on the bench for the entire championship but , as it turned out , I had another big incentive in that as Gary might not play for the rest of the Five Nations there would be four internationals available if I proved good enough ’ . |
| 10 | Over the next five years there would be shortfalls of ‘ tens of millions of tonnes ’ unless new investments came on stream , he warned almost as the government announced that capital spending in the energy sector would be slashed by 40 per cent . |
| 11 | After five years there would be no controls at all . |
| 12 | In between these two bounds there can be a series of different approaches to meet each case on its merits . |
| 13 | Thirdly , and in like fashion building upon the first two functions there will be produced a series of indexes which will measure performance of the agricultural sector in the period 1850-1914 , to include the calculation of the output of agriculture and its contribution to the national economy |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he forsees that over the next two years there may be problems as fleets dispose of the diesels acquired during the last oil-burner boom . |
| 15 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 16 | With two junctions there would be four ; plus three , that 's seven ; eight ; another three , that 's eleven — I ca n't count them . |
| 17 | I do n't know but he would n't , he would n't have it cooked aboard there , my mother used to cook it for him and I 'd stagger down in an ordinary shopping basket , in two basins there 'd be vegetables in one and his pudding and gravy in the other and I used to take that down for him and he used to come ashore and he used to then go and have it . |
| 18 | The people who took it round tended to assume that in a house of four storeys there must be two families : some of them would leave four copies . |
| 19 | Thus , if a Genesis sail will remain fast for even two seasons there will be a cost saving of nearly £700 . |
| 20 | Where the item is presented as two components there should be , in addition , a single sub-total showing the profit or loss on disposal ’ . |
| 21 | For some 20–50 years there will be plenty of British natural gas fed into the pipeline for use in homes and industry . |