Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Pearson is seen as the first British director to be sacrificed on the altar of his art . |
| 32 | Under terms of the acquisition , SmartStar will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sapiens International , which will pay up to 1.27m new shares ; closing is seen in the next several months . |
| 33 | The Government must be pressed to accept the British Rail view that the link is needed within the next six or seven years . |
| 34 | This is shown in the first three columns of figure 8.6 . |
| 35 | This is shown in the first three columns of Figure 1.8 . |
| 36 | The reduction in the and the persistent rise the depreciation charge , which is going over the last four years as we maintain a high level of capital spending . |
| 37 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 38 | Infants most at risk are those where high PIP ( >26 mm Hg ) is used within the first 24 h . |
| 39 | ‘ Reciprocal altruism ’ is envisaged as the second main form of social behaviour . |
| 40 | Expansion by way of export to the E E C is envisaged within the next twelve months . |
| 41 | Similarly , the yield to next call is the yield to maturity assuming the bond is called on the next available call date . |
| 42 | Aristotle is credited with the first written record of the fact that certain marine predatory gastropods obtain their food through the holes they excavate in their prey . |
| 43 | Also , the open D that is played at the last 16th of bar 1 may have been accidental , and if you agree with this you might wish to play the B on the 9th fret of the D string instead … |
| 44 | The start time is given in VMS absolute time format : dd-mmm-yyyy hh:mm:ss.cc where omitted fields default to system date and time ; month is abbreviated to the first three letters ( uppercase ) . |
| 45 | This point is noted in the First Periodic Report on the social and economic situation in the regions of the EC ( 1981 ) . |
| 46 | He will start in Seoul , where he is to officiate at the 44th International Eucharistic Congress . |
| 47 | Representatives of the UniForum open systems user group and its European counterpart , EurOpen , were in Utrecht this week to promote what is billed as the first pan-European open systems exhibition and conference . |
| 48 | What is billed as the First Green Consumer Exhibition opens its doors at The Royal Horticultural Halls between 24 and 28 May . |
| 49 | For now , attention is focused on the first two reasons why firms invest , rather than rely purely on third-party trade . |
| 50 | Or Natural Selection ? , but is introduced in the next short chapter where we take a brief diversion to present something of the vast integrated cycles by which life is maintained upon our planet . |
| 51 | For example , for 2 × 2 weaving , the weaving yarn is laid over the first two needles , under the next two needles , over the next two needles and so on . |
| 52 | They 're also acting as one of the major exhibition venues for Oxfordshire Artweek , which is running for the last 2 weeks in May . |
| 53 | The budgeted total outflow of funds per period is entered on the second last line with the cumulative total to date below it . |
| 54 | The budgeted total outflow of funds per period is entered on the second last line with the cumulative total to date below it . |
| 55 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 56 | The total cost of the part and the percentage of the total cost it represents is entered in the last two columns and the same is done for the function costs in the bottom three rows . |
| 57 | Nothing is known about the first 7 years of this person 's life , and whilst only scattered information exists about the middle span , we know that only at the age 42 did the Earth begin to flower . |
| 58 | As a consequence , very little is known about the first thousand years of Imperial history . |
| 59 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 60 | The award scheme was launched in 1978 and is sponsored for the seventh consecutive year by American Express . |