Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [noun] of [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celtic will be even more fired up than usual after the events of last weekend and it 's up to us to make sure there 's no backlash . ’ |
| 2 | You criticize aid agencies for trying to get affluent people interested in the welfare of Third World poor , without offering practicable alternatives . |
| 3 | ‘ Martin is hoping now that next week 's operation is a success and that he will be fit for the start of next season . ’ |
| 4 | Although Teague has resumed light training , he looks certain to miss England 's match against Fiji on 4 November and has told his club that he does not expect to be fit until the middle of next month . |
| 5 | But the pair , openly hostile by the end of last year , will patch up their mutual differences . |
| 6 | But the Nikkei Industrial Daily sounds a note of warning for NEC : there are two pitfalls for the company with the current order , it says : the sheer difficulty of running a development project to create the mainframe software that makes up the ‘ Fourth Online System ’ — people involved with the development of Third Online Systems predicted the end of such enormous projects ; and the danger of overlooking the trend towards downsizing because it devotes too much time and too many resources on the project . |
| 7 | Prof John Catford , executive director of the Health Promotion Authority for Wales , said : ‘ There has been a marked increased in the percentage of fifth formers reported to have used various drugs , from one in five in 1990 to one in three this year . |
| 8 | ‘ I am rather inclined to think that the working conditions in this part of the country are opposed to the development of first class footballers , ’ he said . |
| 9 | He was made redundant at the end of last year but before going out of the door for the final time , he had been offered a job as employee communications manager with Eastern Electricity in Ipswich . |
| 10 | But the rest will be made redundant at the end of next week . |
| 11 | it 's due in the middle of next week |
| 12 | In his earlier career , Patrick Dunn taught maths and was responsible for the welfare of fifth formers at this school in Bolton . |
| 13 | He was also a member of various CNAA Boards concerned with the validation of first and research degree proposals during the period 1976–1988 . |
| 14 | A court hearing is unlikely before the end of next year . |
| 15 | And they want to come and see the factory , they want to go to yeah , it fell down cos Richard was too busy at the end of last year , fine get that sorted and i Sally was dropped in the crap by right at the end of last year , came on five sets of bearings , I could 've done 'em in two weeks . |
| 16 | I thank the Secretary of State for giving way , he he did say that erm er the figures in these report were in a sense provisional at the end of last year , erm but that he feels erm , with the passing of time , nothing has happened to change his view . |
| 17 | The difficulty was compounded by the new knowledge that was becoming available through the flowering of 17th century science . |
| 18 | Intel Corp is developing its own 100MHz 80486 chip to rival IBM Corp 's 486SLC offering , shown at Comdex a couple of weeks ago : the chip is called P24C , and should be available towards the end of next year , unless Advanced Micro Devices Inc manages to escape Intel 's protracted law suit . |
| 19 | Consilium Inc has re-architected its WorkStream software , a previously VAX-only Fortune 500-style manufacturing execution systems leader , to run client/server fashion on HP 9000 Unix systems calling the result , available from the beginning of next year , Workstream Open . |
| 20 | Available from the end of last month , the kit will have a list price of £150 , the company says . |
| 21 | Available from the end of last month , the kit will have a list price of £150 , the company says . |
| 22 | The registration of births , marriages and deaths has been compulsory since the middle of last century and is used to supplement census figures in intervening years . |
| 23 | So today 's record GCSE entries — coming hot on the heels of last week 's record ‘ A ’ level scores — have to be seen against that background . |
| 24 | It was like watching a film or a play and you 're totally caught up in what 's going on and you 're taken out of yourself and everything suddenly has colour and meaning and magic and you forget that outside the rain 's tippling down and tomorrow 's homework has n't been done and you 've got to wash the car to pay Dad back for the money you borrowed to come to the film because you were skint till the end of next week . |
| 25 | Digital Equipment Corp says more than 1,400 technical and commercial applications and software products for the Alpha RISC will be ready to ship by the end of June : the total includes products from 500 software developers worldwide , as well as DEC itself , for the AXP and OpenVMS AXP operating systems on Alpha AXP and is more than triple the 400 available at the end of last month . |
| 26 | TO COMPLEMENT the D&PS division 's existing oil field market , a major stake was bought in ERC Industries Inc. at the end of last year . |
| 27 | Mr Birt became the £140,000-a-year director general at the end of last year but was employed by his own company to gain tax advantages . |
| 28 | In 1993 , six new galleries in the centre block will be open for the display of nineteenth century French art ( some already shown ) and our growing collection of contemporary art . |
| 29 | This body of evidence is not strong , for Adam was capable of error and there may have been other reasons why the Maldon army had a Northumbrian hostage ( even assuming that the poem is reliable ) and Æthelred a Northumbrian wife , quite unconnected with the absence of Second Hand dies from northern mints . |
| 30 | The choice of the most appropriate and satisfying degree course can be a perplexing one , but the University is aware of this and our degree course structures allow students to keep options open until the end of first year or later . |