Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [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 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 13 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 14 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 15 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 17 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 18 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 19 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 20 | The accounts suggest that if this trend continues , ‘ the entire investment base of the Diocese will have been used up within the next two years . ’ |
| 21 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |
| 22 | Despite the success of the sport in Auckland , however , judo has been elbowed out of the next Commonwealth Games in Canada in 1994 . |
| 23 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 24 | Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach . |
| 25 | Seven meetings have been called off in the last two days , including all three of yesterday 's cards plus three scheduled for today at Carlisle , Taunton and Warwick . |
| 26 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 27 | Unfortunately I am tied up for the next month or so with filming commitments , but I hope we can arrange some time in July . |
| 28 | Found by a farm worker in 1729 , and subsequently broken into pieces , the tray is now thought to have been melted down in the eighteenth century and recast from moulds made from the original tray . |
| 29 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 30 | Most of the books that had been set out on the last delivery had gone , and now more volumes were being added . |