Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 3.1 It is envisaged that the review of the modules will be undertaken over 3 years . |
| 2 | Thus in the valuable Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Basin , bands about an inch thick are said to be correlatable over an area of some 20000 square miles and even microscopic varves within those bands can be traced over 185 miles . |
| 3 | She could n't really afford it and when she needed a new cylinder it had to be humped up three flights of stairs , always a nuisance for which she had to enlist the help of one of her boyfriends , but when she got cold Theresa 's fingers turned numb , white , bloodless lumps that no longer seemed to belong to her hands . |
| 4 | At the time , the questions uppermost in our minds concerned the level of their motivation , which had to be sustained over three years , and the level of their eventual attainment . |
| 5 | In order to give some structure to the discussion , each of the major social services will be examined under three headings : access , i.e. geographical distribution of social services ; use , i.e. the extent to which different groups make use of services ; and outcome , i.e. the benefit derived from the use of services . |
| 6 | Sir [ James ] Stephen added : ‘ The effect of adopting this definition would be to include under one description all the cognate offences which at present make up the crime of theft . |
| 7 | In the event that the defender contends that the case is not appropriate for the Optional Procedure , argument to that effect can be made , but insofar as the Diet Roll will be heard approximately eight weeks after service of the Summons , a decision as to how to proceed will require to be taken at an early stage . |
| 8 | In contests it has to be flown over four marker flags which makes it even more difficult . |
| 9 | Norman Broadbent and Saxton Bampfylde may be regarded as 1980s examples of the same trend which influenced Dr Egon Zehnder to leave Spencer Stuart in 1964 : a desire both for autonomy and for profit . |
| 10 | The data which forms the raw material of marketing research can be placed under two categories : primary and secondary . |
| 11 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 12 | Flying out of the stalls , Lucky Parkes made all , needing only to be shaken up two furlongs out to beat Sir Harry Hardman six lengths . |
| 13 | Julie Oldfield ( from the MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ) phoned : I have faxed her a copy of Dinamation 's letter for information and confirmed shoot times at 1630 to 1730 on Wednesday ; she was worried about the amount of equipment you might be bringing in 4 vehicles — you said you would have a camera and one light . |
| 14 | The Army will be bringing in 1,400 men and women . |
| 15 | The audience laughed nervously but Fleischmann remained serious : ‘ If this device worked as effectively as the small scale experiment we have done , it would be generating about 800 watts of power . ’ |
| 16 | The procedure for collecting language samples in this way can be considered under four headings : recording equipment ; sampling children 's language ; observer effects ; and transcription . |
| 17 | For purposes of description time can be considered under four headings ( Thornes and Brunsden , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | Since different tests are designed to assess different aspects of linguistic ability , they will be considered under four categories : tests of articulation or phonological ability ; tests of vocabulary ; tests of grammatical ability , including morpho-syntactical rules ; and , finally , tests of more general aspects of psycholinguistic ability . |
| 19 | The organic response to the changes in the physical environment induced by plate tectonics can be considered under three headings . |
| 20 | They can be considered under three headings . |
| 21 | ‘ A well-paid job , a pretty girl or a desirable residence may each be located only five minutes away and yet be effectively inaccessible because one 's inadequate skills , social talents or incomes effectively place them out of bounds … . ’ |
| 22 | The criticisms that users gave can be grouped under four headings . |
| 23 | These will be grouped under four heads decentralisation , consumerism and participation , self help and joint action . |
| 24 | They can be grouped under two headings , those seeking to ‘ restructure for labour ’ and those seeking to ‘ restructure for capital ’ . |
| 25 | The major determinants of effectiveness can be grouped under two headings : Immediate Constraints ( ie things that can not be changed in the short-term ) and Group Motivation and Interaction . |
| 26 | The training provided could be grouped under three headings : |
| 27 | They can be grouped under three headings : improvement of the quality of labour ; promotion of the mobility of industry and labour ; encouragement of production and employment through increased consumption . |
| 28 | Thus the work can be grouped under three headings : |
| 29 | They can be grouped under three heads : |
| 30 | Many and varied reasons have been put forward for this basic element of practice , but they can be summarized under three headings : ideological reasons ( the right of a person to decide for himself or the recognition of this as an existential reality ) , educational and developmental reasons ( participation as part of human growth and development , for the individual , the family , the group , the organization or the community ) , and political reasons ( participation as a means to enfranchisement and empowerment , an antidote to alienation ) ( Ross , 1960 ; Bernstein , 1960 ; Katan , 1980 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; Rothman , 1989 ) . |