Example sentences of "to be [verb] [prep] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Olivetti did say it was a joint decision with TA to manufacture the new line of products , it would appear to be based on several premises . |
| 2 | ( Our big fish man Andy Parkes tells me he prefers the name Oddballs for the fish he keeps — he feels a tank buster is a fish that ‘ has to be turned round several times a day ’ — which sums up how I feel ) . |
| 3 | What is certain is that he carried the legend of a king or emperor waiting to be reborn for several centuries , just as the British King Arthur has done . |
| 4 | The appeal to kingly honour was to be repeated on several occasions until the Anglo-French breach of 1294 led to war . |
| 5 | The most detailed miniature building was the pyramid headquarters of the Tyrell Corporation , where the manufacture of the replicants as well as the administration of the business and the research takes place This had to be built in two sizes — many models in this and other films have to be built in several sizes , often three or four , and sometimes up to whole or partial full-size , for various kinds of shot or effect . |
| 6 | Proust 's use of the anonymous first-person narrator was to be adopted in several nouveaux romans . |
| 7 | In each case , after charging , measurements of heat had to be made for several hundreds of hours and repeated at several different levels of current , between 0.05 and 1.5 amps corresponding to a current entering each square centimetre of surface of the rods of 8 and 64 mA. ( mA means a milliamp or thousandth of an amp , not a million amps as incorrectly stated in one newspaper . ) |
| 8 | Life went on , and pottery and other artefacts continued to be made for several decades at least . |
| 9 | These are especially useful when deep cuts are to be made in several shallower stages . |
| 10 | Although most of the ministry adoptions in the area have gone local , there are useful sales to be made in several sectors . |
| 11 | documents which go through several stages in their processing or which need to be handled by several people ; |
| 12 | Top : Yak–18T CCCP–81434 with cooling louvres on the front of the cowling which are a distinctive feature of all Yak–18s and are also to be seen on several other Yak types , including the Yak–12 . |
| 13 | One reviewer of the Salon des Indépendants of 1912 writes : ‘ Now that the Cubists have grown into a school their works occupy several rooms and are to be seen in several exhibitions ’ , and another : ‘ the Cubists are to be found in force ’ . |
| 14 | Antibiotics are also prescribed for acne treatment and need to be given for several months at a time to be effective . |
| 15 | This step prolonged the localisation of PCNA immunoreactivity in time , which is especially useful in multicentre studies , where biopsy specimens have to be sent from several endoscopy units to a central laboratory . |
| 16 | This enables oxygen to be stored for several minutes , and during prolonged periods of submersion an accessor valve between the heart ventricles can be opened to bypass the function of the lungs . |
| 17 | After primary dispersal by a range of vertebrates in a dry-seasonal forest in Costa Rica , the fruits of F. hondurensis are known to be re-arranged by several ant species . |
| 18 | The additional defence costs of the Gulf conflict , to be spread over several years , are currently estimated to be about £2.5 billion . |
| 19 | A former Supreme Court Justice and broad supporter of Aquino , he announced his candidacy on Nov. 22 , and was believed to be backed by several powerful corporations . |
| 20 | The notion that the development of latent inhibition might depend ( directly or indirectly ) upon what follows the target stimulus during pre-exposure is to be found in several theoretical accounts of the phenomenon . |
| 21 | Accusations that out-workers embezzled materials have to be considered in several contexts : perquisites and wages in kind , the circulation of raw materials to unsupervised manufacturing households and the long delays which often occurred between completing work and receiving payment . |
| 22 | To achieve this , information has to be shared between several participants . |
| 23 | In all of Ayrshire at that time , there were very few hotels offering accommodation and every hotel bed available in Central Ayrshire was booked , some to be shared by several people . |
| 24 | In order to dispel the lingering impression that American products are not as reliable as Japanese ones , Uchida Yoko will provide service through an affiliate , Uchida Uesco , and hopes to be selling between several hundred and several thousand machines per month from next month . |
| 25 | The content of the poem ought to be taken with several pinches of salt , partly because it belonged to the genre of boasting poem known as the gap which was a standard form of troubadour verse , and partly because William liked to mock himself as well as others . |
| 26 | I have constructed a kitchen out of flatpacks with only one minor nervous breakdown and one remarkable shouting match involving my wife , her mother , myself and how a length of pine beading ought to be attached to several wall cupboards . |
| 27 | One author was designated PhD — a deep rooted ambition to get one was generated ; only to be thwarted in several ways till the age of 55 . |
| 28 | In fact this is not an attempt to reverse pollution , but something more complicated : to create a plan that would enable Lake Ichkeul , in Tunisia , to be used for several different purposes simultaneously . |
| 29 | Many early stations were simply large barn-like structures , a form which was to be used for several decades . |
| 30 | CASHLINE machines are to be installed at several Sainsbury supermarkets as part of a Royal Bank plan to increase the number of ATMs at what are known as third party or remote locations . |