Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Aquino insisted that the plan had the support of at least 15 members of the 23-strong Senate , the Senate President and key opponent of a continued US presence , Jovito Salonga , remained suspicious of the plan , characterizing it as vague and ill-defined and insisting that all combat troops had to be withdrawn within one year . |
| 2 | It was also agreed that Zimbabwean troops guarding the two strategic corridors across the country be withdrawn within one month . |
| 3 | There is some evidence that particular characteristics of events are more likely to be implicated in one disorder than another . |
| 4 | If the view condition is to be incremented from one state to another in a given number of steps , two complete sets of parameters need to be held . |
| 5 | The Ryedale figure should be amended from twelve point zero four to sixteen point three two . |
| 6 | The Selby figure should be amended from thirteen point three to fourteen point two six and the York figure from sixty one point six to ninety six point eight eight and the Greater York figure from eighty seven point three to one two seven point six two . |
| 7 | Tim Curtis is not afraid to leave out seamers — but it still looks as if Illingworth and Stemp will mostly be competing for one place . |
| 8 | ‘ Where will all the people be to go on 18-30 holiday packages ? |
| 9 | A case study will be undertaken of one primary and one secondary school in the same LEA , focusing mainly on the work of the headteacher , senior staff and other teachers in planning , preparing for and introducing the changes . |
| 10 | The first M constraints express the fact that each individual undertakes exactly one task and the second M constraints say that each task should be undertaken by one individual . |
| 11 | Consequently thousands of workers may be sacked from one day to the next . |
| 12 | Although there is no overall meaning , everything can be explained on one measure or another . |
| 13 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 14 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 15 | They can be traced from one frame to another : |
| 16 | He also pointed out , though somewhat less convincingly , that some geological structures could be traced from one continent to another across what are now wide stretches of ocean . |
| 17 | She felt no particular guilt : merely that marriage was a kind of old-fashioned scale : a tray on either side in which the fors and againsts had somehow to be kept in balance , and that extramarital sex had sometimes to be heaped on one side just to keep it steady because indefinable things were piling on the other . |
| 18 | Examples of the effects of water movement can be given for two predator assemblages which have been altered by water transport ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | But a new entity , MODULE can be described which may only be given by one LECTURER and is part of only one COURSE . |
| 20 | Notices of appeal must be given within two business days of the Panel 's decision . |
| 21 | With modern technology many thousands of bistables can be formed on one silicon chip . |
| 22 | Finally , in respect of the Wandjina , it appears to be more than chance that the word ‘ Wandjina ’ — sometimes spelled ‘ Wondjina ’ — can be formed from two Sanskrit words , ‘ Vand ’ and ‘ Jina ’ . |
| 23 | [ At a meeting of EC immigration ministers on June 13-14 Denmark announced that it had signed the convention , which was designed to deal with difficulties resulting from asylum seekers moving from one EC country to another and to give asylum seekers a guarantee that their application would be examined by one member country . |
| 24 | If all the requirements for amplifiers could be examined by one design/development group it would probably be found that , by judicious specifying , two or three separate amplifiers only are required . |
| 25 | For example , a staff nurse 's post in an operating theatre may be filled by one nurse working 22½ hours per week over three days and another 15 hours per week on the other two operating days . |
| 26 | It should be completed by one person on behalf of all residents at the property . |
| 27 | The advocates were informed that the justices would meet at 10 a.m. on that day to continue their deliberations and their drafting , that the exercise would be completed by 12 noon , and that the advocates should attend at that later hour to receive the court 's judgment . |
| 28 | Is the Home Office alleging or claiming that an emergency has arisen since the Conservative party conference , that the Bill must be completed in one day and that it is inconceivable that it could be improved in Committee ? |
| 29 | ‘ The round trip to Accra can now be completed in one day . ’ |
| 30 | As in my landscapes , I work quickly and the portrait has to be completed in one sitting . |