Example sentences of "be [verb] to [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The periods of 7 and 14 days should certainly be amended to 14 and 28 days . |
| 2 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 3 | It reiterates an orthodoxy whose source can be traced to one specific article ( Lemann , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | This can be traced to two , radically different , political forces . |
| 5 | The renewed development of the market in the 1980s can be traced to three principal factors . |
| 6 | The origins of the battle , however , can be traced to 29 July 1914 , before the outbreak of war , when the British Fleet was prudently dispatched by Winston Churchill , First Lord of the Admiralty , to its war station at Scapa Flow , off the northeastern tip of Scotland . |
| 7 | In his will he left £12 to be given to twelve old maids who were to act as pall bearers . |
| 8 | Having assessed the central elements in a budgetary process , consideration will now be given to two broad frameworks into which differing budgetary processes can be categorised . |
| 9 | External courses are likely to continue to be the only viable way of meeting some needs in some circumstances and in the interests of promoting maximum effectiveness , further attention could very usefully be given to two areas in particular . |
| 10 | We think that consideration should be given to three changes in the procedures of the High Court . |
| 11 | It should be noted that Optimus say the tank should only be filled to two-thirds of capacity — a little over a tenth of a litre . |
| 12 | First , the simplification cuts the number of reservation wages to be calculated to two for individuals who are still unemployed after time T and to only one for the others . |
| 13 | Your next two patterns can be adjusted to 5 minutes each . |
| 14 | If the sample volume is smaller than this it should be adjusted to 0.5 ml with water and transferred to a 1.5 ml microfuge tube . |
| 15 | Within the BEA , a Central Authority would be responsible for running the power stations and the Grid transmission system , but the distribution and sales functions to the eleven million consumers were to be decentralised to fourteen Area Electricity Boards , each with their own local board appointed by the Minister . |
| 16 | Some first degrees should also be lengthened to four years . |
| 17 | Unshielded , an astronaut could be exposed to hundreds of rads during a solar flare . |
| 18 | To put the level of risk in perspective , one study concluded that anyone standing all day at a busy roadside with traffic containing 20 per cent diesel would be exposed to 1,000 times less benzo(a)pyrene than somebody smoking 10 to 15 cigarettes a day . |
| 19 | You 'll be treated to four of the hottest plays in London : CATS SINGIN' IN THE RAIN THE MOUSETRAP NO SEX PLEASE WE 'RE BRITISH ! — British Caledonian ad in Texas paper |
| 20 | This means that the audience can be treated to two different interpretations of similar pieces of observations and the formula works very well indeed . |
| 21 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 22 | If that 's not enough to keep you occupied , you 'll each be treated to one Body Salt Scrub , one Thalassotherapy Massage Bath and a choice of either G5 Massage or Back Massage with Infra Red . |
| 23 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 24 | An undated letter from John Howard to the duke of Norfolk , which can probably be assigned to 1469 , assured Norfolk of Gloucester 's good will : ‘ I did remember your lordship to my lord , promising you I found my lord as well disposed toward you as any lord may be to another … whereof I was right glad to hear it . ’ |
| 25 | Likewise , when he secured a thirty-mark annual pension from the church of Wigan , he assigned ten marks to the fabric fund of the cathedral and twenty marks to the sacrist , of which half was to be assigned to six boys appointed by the bishop . |
| 26 | If a date can be assigned to one or more points of this relative sequence , it is normally possible to make reasonably accurate inferences about the dates of the intermediary points . |
| 27 | In this region the integration of the drainage pattern is so good that practically every point in the area can be assigned to one or another of the former drainage basins . |
| 28 | It can thus be assigned to one ( a' ) or other ( a " ) of the two possible symmetry species . |
| 29 | Elements of each drawing can be assigned to one of 256 available levels , each of which can be displayed separately if required . |
| 30 | However it is recommended that this privilege should be assigned to one individual in order to avoid any conflict of activity . |