Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [adj] [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sessions are all done at pace and the length should be 80 minutes maximum . |
| 2 | I suggest that the erm ticket price should be two pounds fifty as it is now and that the concessionary price should be increased to two pounds . |
| 3 | The sitting stance should be one-and-a-half shoulder-widths wide , with the feet kept straight . |
| 4 | RULES OF ENTRY : Applicants should be 18 years old or over and may submit only one entry . |
| 5 | The first is the absence of deep gaps in barrier reefs and atolls , whereas if subsidence has been long continued , there should be deep gaps present , because once the gaps are deeper than the depth at which reef-building corals occur they can not be filled by coral growth . |
| 6 | How odd that I should be nine cents adrift |
| 7 | He decided it should be ten metres high with four-metre thick reinforced concrete walls but the workmen were sloppy and the concrete cracked . |
| 8 | Its proposal that the maximum penalty for indecent assault should be ten years irrespective of the sex of the victim was implemented by the Sexual Offences Act 1985 , s.3(3) . |
| 9 | By now I must be five years clear of her , and she said she 'd kill me if I ever told anyone her age . |
| 10 | ‘ Must be six feet six at least . |
| 11 | Dogs must be seven years old or over and we 'll be looking for good health and condition as well as stunning good looks . |
| 12 | The walls must be ten feet thick . |
| 13 | The difference was partly generational ; this man must be ten years older than Hutton . |
| 14 | " That sign must be ten years old . |
| 15 | They must be forty years old , at least . |
| 16 | Inside the temperature must be forty degrees higher , at least , Tweed reckoned . |
| 17 | Well it it must be three times four is equal |
| 18 | At a distance of 32 feet , letters must be 2½ inches high to be clearly visible at the back of the class . |
| 19 | ‘ Loose Ends ’ might be five years old now but it is Radio 4 's zappiest , most innovative and hippest chat show on the air . |
| 20 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 21 | A single operation might be three miles long and half a mile wide and would crawl across the landscape at about 700 feet a year , digging up the shale or sand and beginning the processing which will turn it to oil . |
| 22 | This may affect social science data users the most since it might be non-policy areas such as data collection and analysis which are hived off first . |
| 23 | So it 'll be eleven times that . |
| 24 | it 'll be twenty years next March |
| 25 | ‘ You 'd better smarten up , my girl , or it 'll be seven days general fatigues for you when you 're back on your feet . |
| 26 | One of them will eat ten flies every hour , so if we got six of them it 'll be ten times six . |
| 27 | ‘ Gerrardavit — yer 'll be old yerselves one day ! ’ one of the veterans wheezed throwing a stick at them . |
| 28 | There are over 55,000 reported case of food poisoning each year , but because many cases go unreported , experts believe the real figure could be 100 times greater . |
| 29 | Having spotted his prey in a channel which could be fifty yards wide or more , the fisherman must literally read the fish 's mind . |
| 30 | So half of three sixty could be eighteen times ten . |