Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’
2 Mr Patten said privatisation of the Property Services Agency , which builds and furnishes Government offices , will not be practicable until the second half of 1992 .
3 So reported earnings would be lower in the first year and higher in the remaining four years with the declining balance method compared with the straight-line method .
4 Downstream , in light of high product stocks , industry refining margins in the USA and Europe are expected to be lower in the first quarter of 1993 than in the fourth quarter of 1992 .
5 The first mass will be celebrated in 1995 , although the interior will not be complete until the next century .
6 The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 .
7 The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 .
8 Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year .
9 It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct .
10 but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter ; ’ he also said that customers were enthusiastic about the new Alpha-based systems , adding that five major database vendors had committed to supporting the RISC chip .
11 He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter . ’
12 If the costs at the home you prefer are greater than the fees payable by the Social Work Department , your placement will be dependent on a third party being willing to make up the difference , ie a relative , a charity or a trust .
13 The pitch and conditions will be different from the first game .
14 Things may perhaps be different in the next century .
15 Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’
16 Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit .
17 It should be clear from the last chapter that they both play a role in determining the equilibrium level of income and employment and that a change in any one of them will cause the level of national income to change via the multiplier effect .
18 The majority of the buildings house the vats and equipment used in the brewing process , a scene that , with a few modern exceptions , could be straight from the 19th century .
19 Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back .
20 The impact may be favourable to a third party , again ranging from the bestowal of a right through to some beneficial side effects .
21 It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) .
22 Even if anyone could escape from the fuselage — which I think would be impossible in the first place — they 'd die soon after surfacing .
23 Although the client 's permission will always be sought before a trainee sits in , many clients may feel unable to refuse , even though they are certain that they will be uncomfortable with a third party present .
24 And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election .
25 There seems to be nowhere where we could start , no sentence whose meaning is , as it were , self-contained enough to be learnable as a first step towards learning the rest .
26 She was bound to be sick before the last race , either then or on the road to the meeting , or on the road home .
27 ERIC Cantona last night threw Leeds a European Cup lifeline by declaring that he could be fit for the second leg against Stuttgart at Elland Road next week .
28 Leeds midfielder David Batty is winning his fight to shrug off an ankle injury and be fit for the second leg , which his side start 2-1 down on aggregate .
29 Steve Douce , the British champion who missed the Nations Cup race at Wolverhampton with badly bruised ribs , is expected to be fit for the second round of the Falcon National Trophy series in Leeds on Sunday .
30 Yes , I mean you could put it in the minutes , but also it would be quick at the next meeting of this sub-committee is after the election , it 'll be some time in June , so a quick way of dealing with it would be to put it in the bulletin , yes , but also , but I 'll put it in the minutes , as well .
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