Example sentences of "[modal v] be [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , what I 'm saying is , I do n't think from the accident book you 're getting a true picture because people do n't always report it , they 'll be off several days afterwards . |
| 2 | A marble and a stalls back seat could be worth several minutes of noisy bagatelle . |
| 3 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 4 | These may be of several kinds : point mutations involving protein coding genes or tRNA ( 5–9 ) , or more substantial deletion ( 10–12 ) or duplication type mutations ( 13 ) , localized by most studies in a highly specific single-strand zone during replication ( 14–16 ) . |
| 5 | But the reader should not forget that , even in those societies where kinship language is all-pervading , the bonds of kinship may be of several different kinds . |
| 6 | War had been declared , and the fate of Czechoslovakia , Austria and Poland was sealed , as it would be for several other countries . |
| 7 | Orrell have an attractive home game with Leicester although they will be without several star players . |
| 8 | Control of handing out the £28 million in prizes will be worth several hundred million pounds a year to the successful company . |
| 9 | The same car registered just a week or two later in January will be worth several hundred pounds more when it 's time to trade it in . |
| 10 | When the wind is strong , which it can be for several days in a row , sailing is brisk but safe in the local sheltered area . |
| 11 | It is skills oriented rather than information oriented ; it is group based ; trainees are encouraged to observe interviewing sessions as part of the process of training before actively conducting an interview themselves ; the pre-basic training can be of several weeks or even months duration ; the basic training course itself is not assessed formally ; and the overall time taken to become a useful member of a CAB team may be as long as a year . |
| 12 | Workbooks can be of several types , ranging from those covering basic library skills based on the holdings of a specific library , to subject-related workbooks . |
| 13 | Settling tanks can be of several types , and they use the principle of slowing the rate of flow of the water to allow the solid particles to fall out as a sludge that can be removed separately . |
| 14 | Such electrodes can be of several types ; they may be fine glass tubes filled with solutions of drugs or salts to be pumped out close to specific cells , or they may be ‘ stimulating electrodes ’ designed to deliver trains of electric pulses — of the sort described in relation to LTP . |
| 15 | They say he can be in several places at once , can work magic , hypnotise with his eyes , cause death , resuscitate corpses , make women pregnant with a glance . |