Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem has delayed the second phase by 18 months . |
| 2 | Woodbury , New York-based Cablevision Systems Corp says it has completed the first stage of its electronic superhighway to homes , businesses and institutions in the New York metropolitan area : the $300m project , scheduled for completion in 1995 , involves installation of over 3,000 miles of fibre network . |
| 3 | These provide a means for lexicographers to review and amend dictionary material which has completed the first stage of processing , as well as a facility for the transfer of portions of the dictionary material to a typesetting and composition operator . |
| 4 | Working for the Giunti publishing house , Boskovits again has edited the first volume of The Origins of Florentine Painting by R. Offner ( L230,000 ) . |
| 5 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 6 | In the Britain in Bloom competitions it has won the first prize in the Village Section successively for Yorkshire and Humberside ( for which it retained the Challenge Shield after winning three times ) , England and the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | England has won the second Test at Wanganui by four wickets : during the match , Carole Hodges became the fifth Englishwoman to score 1000 Test runs . |
| 8 | Since that January night , Hillary has undergone the second stage of her transformation . |
| 9 | The academic year 1992/3 has seen the first year of fully modularised courses at Napier . |
| 10 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 11 | Suppose that the student has answered the first question in the other way ; is he now to answer the second ? |
| 12 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 13 | The J. Paul Getty Museum has produced the first volume in a new series of fine quality facsimile editions of volumes from its manuscript collection . |
| 14 | The TOP improvement team at Hunterston considering ways to extend GOMIS from a maintenance planning system to one capable of works resource planning across the station has used the second stage of the ‘ Brown Paper ’ technique described in last months edition of Scottish Nuclear News . |
| 15 | The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui . |
| 16 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 17 | ‘ The manager has watched the last couple of games , which has gone in my favour with me doing well . |
| 18 | Part of their group , the 60 Artillery Support Squadron , has lead the first convoy of dozens of army trucks taking aid to refugees in central Bosnia . |
| 19 | SunSoft Inc also says that it has reached the second milestone in its Project DOE Distributed Objects Everywhere programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF Distributed Object Management Facility , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 20 | He has mislaid the last thread of that natty rig he had recently and is entirely back in cap , scarf and corduroy . |
| 21 | Robert Wilson from John O'Gaunt Golf Club has become the 40th recipient of the Gold Award in the Golf Foundation Merit Award Scheme . |
| 22 | Peterlee-based TRW REPA has become the first company in County Durham to be recognised as Investors in People , a training benchmark , by the County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 23 | A GIRL aged 11 has become the first child in Britain to be given a legal divorce from her mother . |
| 24 | In some companies reading e-mail has become the first task of the morning . |
| 25 | From such an unpromising start in 1980 , BR has become the first railway in the world to provide a long-distance passengerrailway service without subsidy . |
| 26 | The Northern General Hospital National Health Service Trust in Sheffield has become the first hospital in the UK to install a Fibre Distributed Data Interface network : supplied by Cray Communications Ltd , the network is intended to run between eight hospital departments . |
| 27 | Lady Martin Fitzalan-Howard of Brockfield Hall , Warthill , near York , has become the first woman to be appointed High Steward of Selby Abbey since it was founded in 1069 . |
| 28 | Gwen Jones , who started here banking career in Abersoch has become the first woman in Oxfordshire to manage a National Westminster Bank branch . |
| 29 | They coincide with news that Gosforth First School in Newcastle has become the second school in the country to ask parents to pay £30 each to cover a £9,000 shortfall in the budget . |
| 30 | ‘ Evil ’ has become the last refuge of the latter 's apologists and scoundrels , like the education minister , John Patten . |