Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you need to worry about is thirty seven millimetres long , that 's the length is it ? |
| 2 | The Polish Telecommunications Co , previously the Polish Post , Telegraph and Telecommunications Company until it was separated from the Post last January , looks like being one of the first to run IBM 's mainframe version of AIX on its E9000 Series mainframe . |
| 3 | The firms ' budget looks like being 12 or 13 times bigger than that of its European imitators . |
| 4 | The earliest that the whole — more or less — of the industry will be able to take advantage of its single market now looks like being mid-1994 . |
| 5 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 6 | Dr Pentreath said there would now need to be two registers , each containing data derived from two organisations thus confusing the public and independent groups and undermining public confidence . |
| 7 | The open semi finals promised to be two very tight games and they did not disappoint . |
| 8 | This shows a seven-snake-necked monster with animal heads and a long spotted body with four legs , suggestive of a leopard , and in addition to the thick tail there appear to be eight more , rising from , but not attached to the back and neck . |
| 9 | She tells me that this has recently become quite itchy , and when there appear to be one or two areas that have er become discoloured darker than , than the main part of the mole . |
| 10 | There appear to be two distinct types of herpes simplex virus — type I ( herpes labialis or facialis ) which is found predominantly above the neck and type II ( herpes genitalis ) more often found in the genital and anal areas . |
| 11 | There appear to be two distinct and conflicting pressures on the system . |
| 12 | There appear to be two possible explanations . |
| 13 | There appear to be two main reasons for this factor of ten difference between estimate and practice . |
| 14 | As the answer to the first of these shows , the pair are closely linked ; for there appear to be two kinds of criteria for identifying the dominant instance of a society , which are more or less explicitly mentioned in Althusser 's work . |
| 15 | The fourth variable is energy , and there appear to be two issues here . |
| 16 | There appear to be two main benefits from providing clients with information . |
| 17 | One turns hopefully to the north-east wing , but the remains are very difficult to interpret , as there appear to be two main floor levels , with as much as 8 ft between them . |
| 18 | The problem , however , is that Becker fails to reconcile to any acceptable degree what appear to be two mutually antagonistic themes . |
| 19 | There appear to be two types of modifiability in cortical neurons : a slow , irreversible process that occurs during early development , and a rapid , reversible one that continues to operate through life . |
| 20 | There appear to be two general reasons for hostility towards the growth of a disability culture : |
| 21 | ‘ There always appear to be two explanations of everything . |
| 22 | There thus appear to be two relationships between subjective risk and memory in driving . |
| 23 | There appear to be two possible mechanisms to account for this . |
| 24 | There appear to be two distinct types of coherent structure in a two-dimensional far wake . |
| 25 | There appear to be two distinct approaches . |
| 26 | ‘ There appear to be two parties to date who are significantly interested in the property and we expect an offer very shortly . ’ |
| 27 | There appear to be four main driving forces behind the consideration of widening the business options open to surveyors : better use of skills , increased competition in the offering of advisory and financial services , improvement in public image and financial expansion . |
| 28 | There appear to be four main Soviet categories for Latin American regimes : ( i ) ‘ revolutionary democratic ’ states or ( a label rarely applied ) states of ‘ socialist orientation ’ , such as post-1979 Nicaragua and 1979–83 Grenada ; ( ii ) capitalist , yet ‘ progressive ’ and ‘ anti-imperialist regimes which are willing to be friendly to the Soviet Union and stand up to the United States , such as Mexico and panama ( particularly under General Omar Torrijos ( 1969–81 ) , who negotiated a treaty with the Carter administration providing for complete Panamanian sovereignty over the Canal by 1999 , a campaign that was strongly supported by Moscow ) . |
| 29 | There appear to be three main answers . |
| 30 | In interpreting memory results in terms of Easterbrook 's hypothesis there appear to be three important questions to ask and these will be considered in turn . |