Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Great Western Railway set aside , £250 annually to be divided among the winners of twelve sections , with a first prize of £5 in each section . |
| 2 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 3 | Whether any of these intuitions are valid depends on the data yet to be reported . |
| 4 | According to statistics soon to be published by the UN , the average number of children per mother in Bangladesh has fallen from 6.7 in 1975 to 4.7 now , and that of Kenya from 8.1 to 6.3 . |
| 5 | They were very very reliable because erm , the motive power was in a motor , electric motor , not a lot of parts to go wrong but er once you started the motor buses they had to send people away to be taught the mechanics of motor buses , so you had the old die-hards of the fetters , trolley buses , who never did take to motor buses and course the younger ones came into their own then , who were able to adapt to the modern motor bus . |
| 6 | Public parks came in the 1840s , and public libraries a few years later ; later still perhaps the grandiose Town Hall , by no means always to be despised as architecture . |
| 7 | John Dyter has gained the Royal Horticultural Society 's Associateship of Honour — one of only four people nationwide to be conferred the honour this year . |
| 8 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 9 | So Paul calls upon all people everywhere to be reconciled to God ( 2 Cor. |
| 10 | It is interesting to speculate that in the fetus the G cells may , by a means yet to be identified , lead to the disappearance of parietal cells in their immediate vicinity . |
| 11 | But she would be a sheep indeed to be ruled only by that . |
| 12 | Take advantage of the enormous variety of fruit now to be found in the shops . |
| 13 | I 've just taken another pair today to be re-heeled . |