Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , as the reality of the economic situation presses in on the government so it is inevitable that more sensible and pragmatic policies are adopted 2 or 3 years into office . |
| 2 | Operations are announced 10 days in advance , giving the godfathers plenty of time to pull out . |
| 3 | Straight gouges are numbered 3 to 11 , a 3 sweep is a very shallow curve , an 11 has a very deep flute . |
| 4 | Curved or bent gouges are numbered 12 to 20 . |
| 5 | Summons hearings are held fortnightly , and committal cases are held three weeks out of four . |
| 6 | At the end of the tour the knights are shown three of the chambers of the mind : phantasy , judgement , and memory . |
| 7 | The first three ganglia are situated one in each of the thoracic segments , and are known as the thoracic ganglia ; the remainder lie in the abdomen and form the ganglia of that region . |
| 8 | The schools were given six weeks in which to draw up a register of parents , but decisions had first to be made about what constituted a parent . |
| 9 | Foreigners were allowed 100 per cent ownership of enterprises and certain tax exemptions under a foreign investment law passed in 1990 , and by September 1991 43 joint enterprises had been set up . |
| 10 | Two fire fighters were killed ten days ago in the fire which gutted most of the factory . |
| 11 | Christmas shoppers were given 25 minutes to evacuate the area before the van exploded in Market Street only half a mile away from the headquarters of the British Army in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Similarly , when the informants were given five sets of words , and asked to list them in order of the likelihood of appearing in SF , the experienced readers included " dreams ' , " drugs ' , " consciousness ' , " identity " , " information " ( all themes of recent SF ) while the inexperienced readers marked only " Martians ' , " flying saucers ' , " ray-guns ' , " robots ' , " mutants ' . |
| 13 | According to the council , the garden was indeed large but much of it was paved ; the property was in an urban area where the speed limit was 30mph ; the shops were located 700 yards from the property ; |
| 14 | All subjects were given 1 l of tap water before imaging , the water acting as a positive — that is , bright , contrast medium , to outline the gut lumen without affecting motility state . |
| 15 | Subjects were retested one month later . |
| 16 | In the second experiment , which lasted 17 days , animals were given three diets that differed in the molecular form of the nitrogen supply — that is , proteins or peptides . |
| 17 | The animals were anaesthetised one hour after ethanol administration to allow measurement of gastric blood flow by laser Doppler flowmetry ( Laserflo , model BPM 403A , Vasamedics Inc , St Paul , MN ) as described previously . |
| 18 | The animals were anaesthetised three hours later and gastric blood flow and area of gastric lesions were measured as previously described . |
| 19 | Warfarin was started and transcranial doppler recordings were repeated 1 month later ; he had had only one transient ischaemic attack in the interim , when his international normalised ratio had been only 1.3 . |
| 20 | Last Winter they suffered the worst floods for fifty years , with some homes being hit three times . |
| 21 | The figures actually which I got from the director yesterday are that the department is counting four hundred and ten vacancies of those four hundred and ten , two hundred and thirty four are out of commission , they 're in homes being refurbished seventy two are in blocked places , that is double rooms being lived in by a widow or widower where er they 'd previously shared it with the spouse or er disability reasons , health reasons , behaviour reasons of a resident er in a previously shared room . |
| 22 | Their bureau is normally 10 miles away in Bridgewater but , with the agreement of Quantock 's management , two three-hour weekly sessions were established ten weeks before the closure of the plant . |
| 23 | The Moslem brothers were arrested 10 weeks ago and thrown into the notorious Omarska concentration camp where they were split up . |
| 24 | The Central Electoral Commission criticized television coverage of this and other Civic Forum and PAV rallies , and ordered that all other parties be given 10 minutes ' extra air time to compensate . |
| 25 | Most sites are closed 24–26 December and 1 January . |
| 26 | Many elements of the Exchequer transactions total can be predicted with a reasonable degree of accuracy by the Bank of England on a day-to-day basis : the impact of foreign exchange transactions passing through the EEA is generally known since most such transactions are settled two days later ; gilts transactions are generally settled on the next business day ; and various government sources give information on both government expenditure and expected tax receipts . |
| 27 | Wills were created two peers , four baronets , three knights and one dame . |
| 28 | I 'm not a jealous kind of person , and my own parents were divorced five into my marriage with Bailey . |
| 29 | One is struck rather forcibly , for example , by the fact that whereas L. W. Greenham 's contribution on wound infection is sufficiently abreast of the literature to embrace one of last year 's Communicable Disease Report from Colindale , the only three papers cited in the chapter on pathological interplays between hosts and parasites were published 18 , 24 and 27 years ago . |
| 30 | Seven of these were on the British side , where the contractors were fined 50,000 in March 1990 after the fifth death . |