Example sentences of "be several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was a good attempt but yeah you missed misled or confused then there could be several others I felt you could 've picked up that would be highlighting the second appointment that carried the whole process through |
| 2 | To help the reader test his or her understanding there should be several problems at the end of chapters , and worked examples in the text where a general law or difficult point is discussed . |
| 3 | Polgar 's approach to teaching is , he says , that ‘ the pleasure of the accomplishment must be several times as much as the experience of failure . ’ |
| 4 | In such cases , the building amplifies the motion it experiences at ground level , and the horizontal accelerations at the upper storeys can be several times those at the base . |
| 5 | The private-sector contribution to these schemes was intended to be several times larger than that of the public sector . |
| 6 | Like the other horse strongyles , the pathogenic effect of these worms is damage to the large intestinal mucosa from the feeding habits of the adult parasites ; in particular , T. tenuicollis , whose adults feed in groups and cause the formation of large deep ulcers which may be several centimetres across ( P1.III ) . |
| 7 | there will be several formats that we can agree on at a later date . |
| 8 | The clonk may be several things , but is most probably the ball joint on top the rear axle joining it to the rear ‘ A ’ frame . |
| 9 | If the customer may make orders for a number of parts , then ‘ part ’ must also be a key attribute as there will be several tuples with the same ‘ Name ’ . |
| 10 | The implication is that some Upper Carboniferous rocks of the foreland are still in the oil window , and that even if fairly high regional palaeogeothermal gradients are assumed , the gas preservation limit is likely to be several kilometres deep where the high-volatile coals occur . |
| 11 | In addition there will be several members of the trade exhibiting their products . |
| 12 | The disadvantage for sequential processing is that there will be several rotations during the processing of a track with overflow . |
| 13 | With the back tyre likely to be several inches in the air , there 's no braking power to be gained there . |
| 14 | The body responds to an alumina implant by surrounding it with a fibrous capsule which can be several micrometres thick . |
| 15 | Most often there is one copy of a given plasmid per chromosome , but with the small ones there may be several copies . |
| 16 | ( 3.3 ) unc Thee will be several laws later on which show how assignment interacts with the various constructs of the language . |
| 17 | There can be several reasons for this . |
| 18 | There could be several reasons why Tolkien chose to write about fascination with the artefact ( a theme present in his work since chapter 1 of The Hobbit ) . |
| 19 | There may be several reasons why seroconversion seems to be associated with bacterial pneumonia only among intravenous drug users and not among homosexual men . |
| 20 | There seem to be several reasons for its emergence : a backlog of untrained practitioners ; a desire to certificate practice , for a variety of reasons , including status ; labour shortages which require quick solutions ; and a growth of theory or technology in the field itself , requiring more systematic training than has hitherto been necessary . |
| 21 | There can be several reasons why a community tank can have its uses , one being as a mixture of different species for display purposes . |
| 22 | There may be several reasons , concede Laws and Dennison ( 1990:276 ) , why primary heads appear so attracted to doing many things themselves . |
| 23 | ‘ We are looking for someone on a consultancy basis to advise on above and below-the-line campaigns , but there may be several arms to that , ’ McDevitt adds . |
| 24 | Interspersed with the musical entertainment would be several lectures . |
| 25 | there could be several pairs of these . |
| 26 | ‘ It must be several streets away . |
| 27 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 28 | In taking this action , the duke showed himself to be several jumps ahead of the rest of the political community . |
| 29 | In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " . |
| 30 | Kerr includes a table of estimates in which it is clear that the ceilings of servants will be several feet lower , the cost of their rooms a mere quarter , and their floor space — despite their larger numbers — less than two-thirds of that allowed to the family . |