Example sentences of "be [vb pp] ten " in BNC.
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| 1 | More irritatingly , for reasons best known to his ego , the last two untitled tracks are situated ten minutes into the abyss after the last listed track of the album . |
| 2 | Travellers ' tales of uninhabited wastes are often based on the sight of dried-out wheat stubble in areas where agricultural towns and villages ( pueblos ) are spaced ten to twenty miles apart . |
| 3 | More often than not they are located ten miles outside town under a tin roof , in wasteland surrounded by a car park the size of Brazil . |
| 4 | the offences of failing to produce you 've been fined ten pounds for each of those three offences . |
| 5 | The flats had been built ten years earlier and showed wear badly . |
| 6 | The Methodist Sabbath School had been founded ten years before , and just one year after that date the ‘ collections were liberal ’ . |
| 7 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 8 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 9 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 10 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 11 | My ma and da have been divorced ten years . |
| 12 | Should a metal bar be heated ten times , a hundred times , or how many times before we can conclude that it always expands when heated ? |
| 13 | Well Mr er pleading guilty to these offenses and we 've listened to what the solicitor has said on your behalf the main offence of having no excise licence you 'll be fined seventy five pounds and be willing to pay eighty pounds thirty three back duty and ten pounds costs and for the offenses of failing to produce you 'll be fined ten pounds for each of those three offenses . |
| 14 | For failing to report you 'll be fined twenty pounds and your licence will be endorsed and for failing afford precedence on the pedestrian on a zebra crossing you 'll be fined ten pounds . |
| 15 | Rebecca 's life could be made ten times easier with the programs I can work out for her . ’ |
| 16 | Women In Love will be seen ten times inside Co Durham and 16 times outside it . |
| 17 | He had rammed his foot down on the accelerator , the Mercedes shot forward , the little grey 's neck jerked frantically and she cartwheeled violently in the air crashing to the ground , to be dragged ten feet before Angel braked . |
| 18 | Although he dispensed hospitality lavishly to the townspeople , he had no success ; political folly only compounded his incompetence as a landlord , and some Chichester tradesmen were still waiting for their bills to be settled ten years later . |
| 19 | In addition to specifying what the core should contain , the framework laid down the percentage of the timetable to be allocated to some subjects , for example , English and mathematics were each to be allocated ten per cent . |
| 20 | Polyacetylene has created a lot of technological interest because it , like other semiconductors , can be doped to improve its conductivity , which can be increased ten million , million times . |
| 21 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 22 | In my case I almost felt that I was a participant in some workshops which had been filmed ten years earlier . |
| 23 | Their symbolic action was swiftly curtailed when the occupants were given ten minutes to leave and , despite their bravest efforts , watched the waiting bulldozers push the building over a cliff into the sea . |
| 24 | Although the new members were given ten years before they had to accept the Fisheries Policy , the problem was exacerbated in 1977 by the extension of international fishing limits to 200 miles , giving the EC a huge area to control . |
| 25 | Michelle Le-Neveu , Darlington co-ordinator of the appeal , said the team were given ten trolley-loads of tinned goods and basic medicine like aspirin . |
| 26 | Willis ( 1983 ) found that black males aged between 16 and 24 were stopped ten times more than average ( although prosecuted in the same proportion as white juveniles ) . |
| 27 | er my Lord simply directives under one art article one , eight , nine , erm I can , very simply say in relation to the Lloyds Act and to the bye laws they were adopted ten years after the directive , there ca n't therefore be an implementation , they , they , the the implementation is fully set out in the Insurance Companies Act nineteen eighty two and it quite clear now because the Secretary of S |
| 28 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 29 | In the early years of British rule vidanes were allowed ten per cent of the value of any recovered stolen property when they were instrumental in gaining a conviction . |
| 30 | We were allowed ten minutes to have our coffee and bread before being chased back to the barrack rooms for cleaning and tidying . |