Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] be [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The decision was to pursue the first option with some changes to current legislation : stronger investigative powers for the Director General of Fair Trading ; permitting the Director General to accept enforceable undertakings from companies before an investigation under the Competition Act , or in lieu of a monopoly reference under the Fair Trading Act ; and scope for interim orders under the Competition Act to prohibit specific activities by a firm where there is a risk of serious damage to a competitor , supplier , or customer during the period of the MMC's investigation . |
| 2 | With signs the recession is ending the next two months will show whether the Leicester lights help or hinder shopkeepers . |
| 3 | If each word is displayed as soon as it is recognised , the display will be changing disconcertingly whilst the user is writing the next word . |
| 4 | a subject committee is in place to assist the development of the initiative and the intention is to have the first cohort of students enter the programme in Autumn 1993 . |
| 5 | Quietwaters is slightly different from the other developments : there was already a course and clubhouse in place , but the plan was to develop a second course as well as the seemingly obligatory hotel and leisure complex and timeshare units . |
| 6 | The dream is to house the next administration ; the nightmare is to house the last one . |
| 7 | As the sun was rising the next morning , Gabriel waited outside his hut until he saw the young woman riding up the hill . |
| 8 | The sun was squeezing the last moisture out of the deserted landscape . |
| 9 | The saint was to throw the last and feared lest the rock should dislodge the pile . |
| 10 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 11 | We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them . |
| 12 | On the circle is placed a second circle with a small window , the size of a picture . |
| 13 | The meeting is held every third Tuesday at MIND , Borough Road , Darlington , at 7pm . |
| 14 | The procedure was repeated the next day , 24 February , the Germans suffering unexpectedly high casualties but remorselessly , if slowly , pushing the French back . |
| 15 | When I got there , the organ was playing the 100th psalm , and , when it was done , Mr Coleridge rose and gave out his text , ‘ And he went up into the mountain to pray , HIMSELF ALONE . |
| 16 | It was obviously much easier during the Kaiser 's war when a short sharp Court Martial was followed by the offender being shot the next morning . |
| 17 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 18 | The Library is exhibiting the first of series of paintings produced by members of Eve Bennett 's RBGE Botanical Painting Course . |
| 19 | As a Conservative I naturally want the Government to survive and to win the next election , but plainly if the Deputy Prime Minister resigns that is something which gives cause for readjustment and rethinking if the Government is to win the next election . |
| 20 | Even if no mining had been carried out , the courts decided , the owners of the mineral rights still had a valid claim to the coal , and in seeking to deny them this , the government was violating the Fifth Amendment , which prohibits it from taking property without just compensation . |
| 21 | Mr. Brian Wilson ( Cunninghame , North ) : I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 22 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time |
| 23 | Question put , That the clause be read a Second time : |
| 24 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 25 | The Question is , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 26 | A Member simply gives notice and eventually moves that the Bill be read a first time . |
| 27 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 28 | The usual one is an amendment to the effect ‘ that the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months ’ hence' when , historically , the session would have ended and the Bill thus have lapsed . |
| 29 | Now this means that the sponsor of the bill , Allan , brothers , pro proposes that the debate be closed and the bill be given a second reading . |
| 30 | The Bill was given a Third Reading on 20th July and became law on 14th August , 1855 , with the short title , The Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act 1855 , but it was not until the following March that the Office of Works circulated the necessary notices to the tenants of property to be acquired . |