Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [prep] [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this tank contains no water ( it should be about one-third full when the system is on ) , check the operation of its ballvalve ( see BALLVALVE PROBLEMS again ) . |
| 2 | If this tank contains no water ( it should be about one-third full when the system is on ) , first check the operation of its ballvalve . |
| 3 | An appropriate response might be for four strong women to hold him down while a fifth administers a local anaesthetic and removes his balls . |
| 4 | Indexing languages may be of three distinct types : |
| 5 | It was smaller than I thought it would be for two-and-a-half grand 's worth , but then what do I know ? |
| 6 | Contracts would be of three main kinds , as follows : |
| 7 | The West back line will be without four original selections — British Lions Ieuan Evans and Robert Jones , Welsh centre Scott Gibbs and Stephens . |
| 8 | That will be at ten sharp . ’ |
| 9 | The choice will be between two Euro-pragmatist , technocratic , cautious , managerialist parties . |
| 10 | My analysis will be in two principal parts , the first entitled " Paul Nizan : Novel Communist " , the second entitled " Paul Nizan : Communist Novelist " . |
| 11 | This story will , I hope , be convincing , for it is the way I have tried to tell it to my neuroscientific colleagues , but it will be in one important sense economical with the truth . |
| 12 | Eruptions can be of three primary types , each associated with a particular form of ejecta — exhalative ( gas ) , effusive ( lava ) and explosive ( tephra ) . |
| 13 | It is implied that the same particular ( the same " complex of compresence " ) can be in two different places , or recur " at different times . |
| 14 | I used to go in Taylor 's , Taylor 's you can be in three different counties in his yard . |
| 15 | One group of fish , called because of the beauty of their coloration , butterfly fish , show how diverse such patterning can be within one small family . |