Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , only eight cases have been fully authenticated . |
| 2 | No radiometric ages less than about 3000 Ma have been obtained for any lunar samples except for a tentative date of 850 Ma for material thought to have been ejected and heated by the formation of Copernicus ( Figure 6.7 ) . |
| 3 | Although the original Oct-11 clone had been isolated from testis cDNA using PCR ( 30 ) , screening of three different testis cDNA libraries , including one that was unamplified , failed to reveal any clones corresponding to Oct-11 . |
| 4 | Section 226 policies have been abolished and are no longer available for purchase . |
| 5 | Stromatolites related to former high lake stands in the Lake Magadi-Natron basin have uncorrected U-series ages of about 300kyr , although a corrected age of 25040kyr may be obtained by assuming that 234 U had been preferentially leached . |
| 6 | By March 1900 , 190,000 copies had been sold in England and there were special Welsh and American editions . |
| 7 | Throughout much of 1948 Minton had been working up oils based on his drawings and watercolours of Corsica for an exhibition at the Lefevre , initially promised him at the end of that year but not mounted until February 1949 . |
| 8 | Creation stories from eight cultures had been distinguished — Egyptian , Norse , African , Oceanic , Greek , Mexican , Indian and the Genesis account — and these could be divided amongst the eight groups very happily , with the addition of timetabled periods of art and music-drama for double groups , in which basic techniques were linked to suitable themes ( for instance , shrine-building , rain-making ceremonies ) . |
| 9 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
| 10 | By the time De Lorean closed , more than 18,000 cars had been made but only 9,000 were sold , mainly to collectors . |
| 11 | Jan. 8 Suspension of airlifts as fighting worsens , over 460 foreigners having been evacuated by US and Italian aircraft on Jan. 5-6 . |
| 12 | Within two hours eight battleships and over 180 aircraft had been either destroyed or severely damaged , and there were over 3000 casualties . |
| 13 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 14 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 15 | 2 sheep have been abandoned in a field , their fleece so heavy they can hardly walk . |
| 16 | They are regularly stocked with rainbow and brown trout , and fish of up to 6lb 12 oz have been caught in recent years . |
| 17 | Worse was to follow , for they were taken by bus to Takali where 261 Squadron had been ordered to prepare for departure to the Middle East , 249 being the unit 's relief- and they were ordered to take 249 's new Hurricanes with them , leaving most of their own well-worn machines behind . |
| 18 | At the time of writing , a further 22 titles have been announced for autumn 1991 and spring 1992 . |
| 19 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
| 20 | At that time nearly 300 prisoners had been released by the mobs . |
| 21 | In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year . |
| 22 | After 300 hours rounding was pronounced for all three grades . |
| 23 | It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , since 1985 attempts have been made by the prosecution , against the most strenuous objections from Mr. Osman and the applicant , to take evidence in Malaysia pursuant to letters of request . |
| 25 | Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty . |
| 26 | It began among the casuals and spread rapidly to the inmates and staff , so that by mid-February 22 cases had been diagnosed and transferred to the smallpox hospital . |
| 27 | Outline how the lunar cratering rate over much of the last 4600 Ma has been estimated . |
| 28 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
| 29 | So far , only a handful of candidates for the TBM 700 rating have been asked to thing about it more seriously and take some refresher training elsewhere before coming back . |
| 30 | Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities . |