Example sentences of "[num] [n mass] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Practise formation flying began early June and by the 18th , rehearsals with a full complement of 12 aircraft were being flown over the Norfolk countryside . |
| 2 | It 's 22 staff are being redeployed . |
| 3 | AN estate agency which has only two men among its 22 staff is being investigated by the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
| 4 | Despite dire tales of distribution being ripped off outside the paper , figures of 50,000 sales were being quoted , and 40,000 was probably being touched . |
| 5 | Forty people are being made redundant at a Birds Eye Walls ice cream factory . |
| 6 | AN EXTRA 100 staff are being recruited by Co-operative Retail Services following planned modifications to their Pioneer discount food shop in Prenton . |
| 7 | Thirteen people are being questioned after drugs and stolen property worth tens of thousands of pounds were seized in a series of dawn raids . |
| 8 | Now cheap low sulphur coal is being imported ( after a statement by the Prime Minister that this option would not be acceptable to the people of Britain ) , gas is being burned , and only 8,000 MW is being fitted with FGD. 14 . |
| 9 | AN ALSATIAN which ate three sheep was being hunted by police yesterday amid fears that it could attack a child . |
| 10 | In this first signal Gen Keightley thus alerted Eighth Army and AFHQ to the emergency with which 5 Corps was being faced by the approach of the 600,000 additional fugitives from the south , on top of the problems posed by the " 300,000 surrendered personnel and refugees " already in the Corps area . |
| 11 | Eight people were being questioned by police after 250 kilos of cannabis worth £1m was found concealed in a consignment of cabbages which arrived in Birmingham from Holland . |
| 12 | But the the results for the ten percent were were better than is had nothing for me . |
| 13 | The report said that at least 50 people were being held without charge in " preventive " detention , and further stated that many hundreds of people were being held without proper trial , among them at least 90 political prisoners who were tried by special courts , over half of whom had been sentenced to death . |
| 14 | Well their forty nine cc 's are not meant to do more than thirty |
| 15 | He says seventy to seventy five percent are being directed towards the private sector so why . |
| 16 | FIVE people were being questioned by police yesterday in connection with the murder of trainee accountant Martin Jacks . |
| 17 | The owners of Shetland 's 500,000 sheep are being urged to switch to more expensive , more environmentally-friendly products . |
| 18 | Bonus all er all your thirty percent is are are paid as you declare it during the assignment week after |
| 19 | According to the Inland Revenue , 500,000 people were being taxed on the benefit of having a company car in the 1978–79 tax year . |
| 20 | Two people are being treated in hospital . |
| 21 | Meanwhile two people are being questioned in connection with the murder of a Northampton man . |
| 22 | Two people are being questioned . |
| 23 | Two people were being questioned by police . |
| 24 | Some 19 million people are being exposed to air whose quality is on the verge of falling below recommended EC safety levels . |