Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 3 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 4 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 5 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 6 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 7 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 8 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 9 | Neil Kinnock said last night that the rise in interest rates was ‘ a shattering blow both to households right across Britain and also to industries , and it 's even worse because it 's a blow that has been gathering ever since the first day that this Government decided its one and only economic policy would be a reliance on interest rates ’ . |
| 10 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 11 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 12 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 13 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 14 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 15 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 16 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 17 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 18 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 19 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 20 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 21 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 22 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 23 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 24 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 25 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 26 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 27 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 28 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 29 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 30 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |