Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present Labour MP in Barnsley West , Allen McKay , is to retire before the next general election . |
| 2 | No major spend on equipment is foreseen in the next 2 or 3 years until the existing LAN requires replacement when a full review of requirements would be necessary . |
| 3 | This metaphor is developed in the second last line to describe the voice of the tramp as ‘ as sweet as a bird 's … ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ If the recent burst of consumer demand is sustained in the next two or three months , it should ultimately be translated into increases in production , employment and income . |
| 5 | Such an inquiry is undertaken in the next four chapters . |
| 6 | The name " Pentateuch " is given to the first five books of the Bible . |
| 7 | Responsibility for drafting the bill and printing is borne by the Member although financial assistance is given to the first ten members and drafting assistance is given to any member whose bill appears to have a chance of becoming law . |
| 8 | A precise date is given to the last recorded act of cannibalism : 1821 , the year when ‘ we ’ founded Basutoland . |
| 9 | Payment of the disturbance allowance at the Yorkshire Bank is also made in two equal instalments ; one is given on the first available salary pay day after the move to the new house , the other is paid when the bank receives the proceeds of the sale of the employee 's old house . |
| 10 | Productivity and product wages determine the course of the profit share and an account of their movements is given in the next two sections . |
| 11 | Barbel Abela is competing in the first round-the-world air race in a fifty-year-old bomber . |
| 12 | If , for example , the bulk of the academic element is contained in the first two years of a course , then the second two can be devoted to developing teaching strategies . |
| 13 | The introduction to the study is contained in the first two or three paragraphs of the article , which also briefly summarize its results and implications . |
| 14 | You must first seek to interest the editor and to do this you must make certain that the essence of the story is contained in the first few sentences . |
| 15 | Independent interrogation by the police is confined to the first 48 hours after the offence has been reported . |
| 16 | The standard rate of SSP is frozen for the second successive year at £52.50 a week . |
| 17 | A FLOOD of new weekly television listings magazines will hit the market when what the Home Secretary calls the ‘ dotty ’ restriction on advance use of programme schedules is lifted in the next parliamentary session . |
| 18 | A twelve year old boy who 's tipped as the next Aled Jones is taking part in an open-air production of Benjamin Britten 's opera ’ The Turn of the Screw ’ . |
| 19 | A final decision is expected in the next two weeks , although the Government yesterday refused to confirm or deny reports that it was to scrap the registers . |
| 20 | The re-launch of the share issue is expected in the next few weeks . |
| 21 | An announcement from the Home Office confirming the reopening of Oxford is expected in the next few weeks |
| 22 | Showing the history of the USAAF/USAF from 1931 to 1953 it shows the early development with B-10 bombers helping out during the flooding of 1935 , film is included of the first B-17s , a type that was delivered in 1937 , the expansion programmes of the late 1930s show the tremendous build up of men and machines . |
| 23 | Now if you 're a horse racing fan … the brain will be galloping … the mouth watering … at the thought of what 's to come over the next few weeks … |
| 24 | The oral shield is rounded with an acute proximal angle , it is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 25 | The oral shield is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 26 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 27 | It is separated from the first lateral arm plate by the wing-like adoral shields . |
| 28 | A second dimension , to serve as the horizontal axis , is selected from the next highest scoring constructs provided that this is not highly correlated with the first choice . |
| 29 | To return to our comparison with the EEC , economic integration in the western half of Europe is seen as the first tentative step to a political union which many pay lip service to and few take seriously . |
| 30 | Only in this case Italians do not want to stop the flood — on the contrary , it is seen as the first real chance to clean out the corruption which is endemic in the system . |