Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
2 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
3 | After scattering his drives throughout the first three rounds , he began to find the fairways . |
4 | In approximately one hour she would be getting her chops round the first succulent mouthful of Chicken Thallium . |
5 | By spreading his proposals over the next three years Norman Lamont sent out the message that he was looking ahead and planning for the future , said Mr Wellerd . |
6 | The first of the pros were already finishing their rounds on the 18th green . |
7 | The resources are allocated periodically at a review meeting which is preceded by individual project leaders assessing their own progress and estimating their needs for the next period . |
8 | MANY churches were focusing their prayers on the first Sunday of December to guide them in their response to AIDS . |
9 | The Frank Cooper Marmalade Shop , which forever linked the name Oxford with marmalade , is closing its doors for the last time . |
10 | ‘ See you 're doing your rounds with the first night presents . ’ |
11 | Her frozen surprise made him pause at the door , a gleam of amusement touching his eyes for the first time . |
12 | ‘ By lowering our costs over the last two years we feel we can now pass some of those savings on to customers . ’ |
13 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
14 | For many , the thought of leaving their parents for the first time left them subdued . |
15 | The almost wordless scene in which Ma Joad , packing her belongings for the last time , comes across a pair of old earrings and tries them on , recalling some long forgotten happiness , is as touching as anything he ever directed . |
16 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
17 | Frantz Fanon , who was there , related : ‘ Dr Nkrumah made a point of receiving our delegates among the first . |
18 | The next day we spent the forenoon ashore at Smeerenburg looking at the remains of the old Dutch whaling-station , and setting our feet for the first time on the Spitsbergen tundra . |
19 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
20 | Skipper David Graveney said : ‘ We 'll be finalising our plans in the next couple of weeks . ’ |
21 | It was an astonishing performance in a first-rate production , and it led directly to her casting as Kitty MacVurrich in The Long Roads , McGrath 's TV film about a cancer-stricken Skye woman and her husband , visiting their children for the last time . |
22 | Mock interviews and tape-recording answers will pay handsome dividends at the interview itself when you would otherwise find yourself practising your answers for the first time . |