Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shelf 4 of bay E could be designated to hold all the histories of England likely to be added to stock during the next hundred years or more . |
| 2 | Doctors were expected to decide in the next few hours whether Nicola would be allowed home today . |
| 3 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
| 4 | The number of cars on our roads is expected to double over the next thirty years . |
| 5 | At present , about one in five children is in full-time higher education and this number is expected to double over the next 25 years . |
| 6 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 7 | In addition , the ending of the Iran/Iraq conflict has meant that there is now more oil on world markets and the price of oil has tended to fall over the last few months . |
| 8 | If only the Department of Education and Science would take a leaf out of C&P 's book when introducing some of the fundamental changes that education has had to absorb over the last few years ! |
| 9 | When I came back from Bletchley , I had agreed to tutor for the First Ordinary English class at Edinburgh University a Polish woman considerably older than myself . |
| 10 | The number of occasions when the Bank has had to intervene in the last 18 months to prop up sterling inside the ERM has been small . |
| 11 | One of these subjects may be offered to qualify for the Second Level Group Certificate in Book-keeping and accounts . |
| 12 | There are various clinics and self-help groups to support and encourage those wanting to kick the habit ; but a lot of determination will be needed to get through the first difficult weeks or months . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 15 | Beijing University students fifty years before had dared to protest against the first Japanese invasion and Chiang Kaishek 's apparent complicity in their designs in what become known as the ‘ December Ninth ’ movement . |
| 16 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
| 17 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 18 | Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people . |
| 19 | Lastly , the number of potential first-time buyers in their 20s was set to fall over the next two decades , reducing demand for homes . |
| 20 | For instance there is electronic software distribution , an area that Legent reckons is set to explode over the next five years . |
| 21 | Many of your values , ideas and attitudes are set to change over the next twelve months . |
| 22 | DEFENDER Terry Butcher swallowed up Luton 's attack — then confessed he could be forced to retire in the next few weeks . |
| 23 | As harvest time was drawing to a close and autumn would soon be upon them , Tamar admitted what she had tried to deny for the last few weeks . |
| 24 | Farms that have ceased to exist in the last few years have been Osentons ( or Clinkham Farm ) , Whitings , Clements and Flint House . |
| 25 | Jeffrey : I think that lesbians and gay men have been very creative in the sort of relationships they have tried to develop over the last fifteen years — because it 's very easy simply to copy the models which we are presented with . |
| 26 | British television was created with this idea in its heart , and has continued to develop over the last fifty years with these ideals firmly at the forefront . |
| 27 | There was a period when cyclists disappeared from the Meet altogether but they have started to return in the last few years and among the highlights of this year 's event — May 22–25 — will be a return to races on the old grass cycle track around the perimeter of Richmond Cricket Club 's ground and a road race for penny-farthings . |
| 28 | 80,000 ft of purpose built warehousing for goods in transit is ready for occupation and this replacement programme is planned to continue over the next few years . |
| 29 | The pace of investment is planned to increase over the next five years with over £50 million of expenditure planned in new and improved port facilities and associated infrastructure . |
| 30 | Several more products are planned to follow over the next 18 months , including software engineering tools . |