Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We prefer to distribute these on a sessional basis , rather than all together in a book form which is given out in the first session , as individual handouts seem to focus attention on the specific issue under discussion . |
| 2 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 3 | Independent fieldwork for an honours thesis is carried out between the third and fourth years of study . |
| 4 | Similarly it seems unlikely that the reader will bother to construct a three-dimensional , photographic representation of ‘ the baby ’ which cries in the first sentence and which is picked up in the second sentence . |
| 5 | But after the relativists ' case is built up in the first two articles , no one has much to say for it , at least not the strong version that splits systems of thought into watertight compartments . |
| 6 | Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ? |
| 7 | First the next coupon payment is added to ( 8.8 ) and then the whole sum is discounted back to the first day of the delivery month . |
| 8 | The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) . |
| 9 | His assertion that the problem remains and is handed down from the first generation of Homo sapiens to the present one in the institutions of religion and art seems to be , prima facie , very plausible . |
| 10 | The conflict is played out for the last time in The Red Shoes ( 1948 ) , where the ballerina played by Moira Shearer initially lives unproblematically for her dancing , until she falls in love with a composer . |
| 11 | This is borne out by the third type of managerialist study — that of the role of external ‘ pressure groups ’ in local politics . |
| 12 | Any tendency toward sentimentality is blasted out by the second movement 's raucous and ugly woodwind and brass writing . |
| 13 | The actual request is set out in the first part , which gives the relevant addresses and which may specify a particular mode of service . |
| 14 | This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza . |
| 15 | In the centre of the layer this transport is brought about by the first term of eqn ( 22.11 ) : essentially just the fact that rising currents in the convection are typically hotter than falling ones . |
| 16 | This point is proved along with the last point . |
| 17 | ‘ In it , the goal of a federal European state is spelled out for the first time . ’ |
| 18 | In April each of the canes seen protruding starkly from the ground in February is cut back to the second bud and stakes are planted for their support . |
| 19 | For example , a number of women 's issues arose as statistically significant differences , but instead of finding a discussion of these results the reader is swept along into the next batch of data . |
| 20 | The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al. |
| 21 | The work of the courts is touched on in the next chapter . |
| 22 | For instance , a LAN operating system like NetWare or an appropriate environment like Windows for Workgroups can be largely pre-installed at the factory , with the remaining configuration being done via a fill-in-the-blanks , sign-on display when the thing 's switched on for the first time . |
| 23 | Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford . |
| 24 | The next triplet of bases in the message ( AAG in the figure ) then pairs with a tRNA carrying the anticodon UUC , and the amino acid lysine ; thus the second amino acid of the protein , namely lysine , is lined up with the first . |
| 25 | Finally output is switched back to the second camera which is focussed on the forest clearing . |
| 26 | The general effect is taken over in the first red-figure ( fig. 87 ) ; but the black line which replaces incision is drawn with a brush , so by nature more malleable and fluid . |
| 27 | With a large entry angle a large proportion of the 4 minutes is taken up in the first turn overhead . |
| 28 | This issue is taken up in the next chapter where some of the rules of company law that support the functioning of the market are examined . |
| 29 | The story is taken up in the next extract : |
| 30 | Thus competition is singled out for the first time as the chosen mechanism for ensuring the public interest . |