Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The open semi finals promised to be two very tight games and they did not disappoint . |
| 2 | Councillor talked about er spending levels and he may be interested to know that the N U T have done a recent survey of education spending and found to be sixty first out of a hundred L E A's surveyed , so that does n't quite stack up with some of his statistics . |
| 3 | Clarke was later breathalysed and found to be three times over the legal limit for driving . |
| 4 | ‘ We always tried to be one step ahead , but it 's almost its own pigeon hole now . |
| 5 | Even though he was n't a poker player , he tried to be one of the guys and belong to the group . |
| 6 | Thus it was , that at some momentous point in the immensity of time there came into being three initial units which can be taken as the true beginning of the story of earthly life . |
| 7 | He knew it was unlikely that he would ever see the true Ireland again because he was being taken to the place that many people believed to be one of the Gateways to the Dark Ireland . |
| 8 | The station , believed to be one of the oldest railway stations in use in Britain , celebrates its 150th anniversary this year . |
| 9 | The dissident group , believed to be 40 in number , which held its first formal meeting on May 26 , was denounced by Army C.-in -C . |
| 10 | With Scottish homes believed to be 50 per cent more expensive to heat than those in the south of England , the Chancellor 's move drew an angry response from opposition MPs and pressure groups . |
| 11 | Whether Motherwell deserved to be two ahead at half-time was debatable , but McGrillen 's strike was worth the admission money alone . |
| 12 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 13 | But the health bill admits to a permanent increase , estimated to be 3,000 , in the number of specialist staff in hospitals , including finance , personnel and information technology staff . |
| 14 | This cell line expresses two Oct-11 transcripts , estimated to be 2.8 kb and 5 kb in size ( Figure 5a , lane 4 ) . |
| 15 | Secondly , the infrastructure , estimated to be 40 – 60 per cent below the EC average standard in some regions . |
| 16 | Chang 's daughter , Chang Chia-yi , and another official of Tamkang University , were said to have bought 5,000,000 shares in an unlisted insurance company for US$22,000,000 , estimated to be one-sixth to one-eighth of the market price . |
| 17 | This seemed to be one of her bad days . |
| 18 | Why has there been no mention in your mag of the Harmony company , who seemed to be one of the earliest to rely on mass-production techniques to rival the ‘ hand-built ’ approach of Martin , Gibson and Washburn in terms of sales figures and affordability ? |
| 19 | THE Eight Bells seemed to be one of those pubs that do most of their trade in the late evenings , for at seven o'clock the saloon bar was deserted . |
| 20 | His whole body seemed to be one total ache now . |
| 21 | I remember thinking that there seemed to be one hell of a lot of buttons on the average Mother Christmas costume . |
| 22 | Gloriana , by contrast , was launched in the most auspicious of circumstances but seemed to be one of Britten 's most upsetting professional disappointments . |
| 23 | There seemed to be two areas of subject-matter where quadraphonics might have an artistic advantage , drama and wildlife recording , so it seemed very sensible when the first ‘ quadraphonic ’ record of birdsong was announced . |
| 24 | There seemed to be two kinds , straight and wiggly . |
| 25 | The inspection and the self-appraisal seemed to be two entirely different processes : each operated with quite a different agenda and entirely different methods were used in each case . |
| 26 | She always felt sorry for the children at the Ragged School and there seemed to be hundreds and hundreds of them . |
| 27 | ‘ It was the day before my estimated delivery date , which also happened to be one of the children 's birthdays and half-term holidays , so I was very busy . |
| 28 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 29 | " Yon " just happened to be three WAAFs toiling up the brae each with a kit bag . |
| 30 | By way of Nero and his brief successor Galba ( who happened to be 73 , which is Mr Healey 's present age ) , we arrived at a picture , on page 483 , of Mr Healey dressed as Father Christmas , which I suggested was deeply melancholy . |