Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their concern was that in September , when he should be moving into the second year infants with his age cohort , he would be far behind . |
| 2 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 3 | Because of the increasing use of complex machinery and sophisticated farming methods , many of those engaged in agriculture require managerial and supervisory skills and it is to this area of provision that the agricultural colleges should be turning in the next few years . |
| 4 | ‘ He should be landing in the next half-hour , comrade . ’ |
| 5 | So with forces families very often in those days , you might be delivering to the first floor . |
| 6 | The mainland campaign had been just a foretaste of what might be coming in the next two months , said RUC Chief Constable Sir Hugh Annesley . |
| 7 | Nothing too conspicuous : this is broad daylight , and one never knows who might be sitting in the next taxi , stuck in a queue along Knightsbridge . |
| 8 | I rang up Derek and Jenny came up to tell us and she said er Eileen 'll be coming on the twentieth and she wo n't be here till between eleven and twelve . |
| 9 | In one respect it is superior , as by staying lower down you will be constantly amazed by the ever changing scenery — higher up the views give you a good idea of the terrain you 'll be walking through the next day . |
| 10 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 11 | Bearing in mind that the new Speaker served as a deputy before being elected to her new post we could be looking at the next Speaker of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | New tales from Toad Hall could be appearing into the next century |
| 13 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 14 | The decline in British hedgerows may be slowing for the first time this century , thanks to schemes to subsidise hedge planting . |
| 15 | Some readers will have been growing roses for years , others may be starting for the first time from scratch , with no preconceived ideas , pattern or convention to adhere to , and a great many more will be at every stage in between . |
| 16 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 17 | CHRISTO VAN RENSBURG , one of the world 's leading doubles players , went on court at the Albert Hall yesterday believing he would be competing for the last time in the official season-ending doubles championship . |
| 18 | The talk would take in all the great political and aesthetic themes : Jean-Paul Sartre would join in , for he would be sitting at the next table : together , artists and intellectuals would conquer life 's essential absurdity ; and from such discussions tomorrow 's painting would be born . |
| 19 | This weaker account seems to me promising in its general approach , and the theory I shall be supporting in the next chapter is distinctly similar . |
| 20 | This year we shall be performing for the first time in Berne , Geneva , Luzern , Zurich and Prague . |
| 21 | We are simply concerned with those issues which we will be discussing over the next erm eight days or so . |
| 22 | English National Soprano , Lesley Garrett will be singing in the third of the 4 concerts . |
| 23 | The future exhibitions programme of the ICA supplies something of a guide to the sorts of significances that a critically-minded culture of a post-modernist kind will be pursuing in the next year or two . |
| 24 | It prints at up to 480 by 480 dots per inch and will be shipping in the fourth quarter . |
| 25 | Patterned on what athletes will be wearing to the 11th Asian Games in Peking next year , it includes sportswear , jackets and close-fitting suits : ‘ The vigorous clothes will help build the atmosphere of the Asian Games and encourage people to get more exercise to promote health , ’ the agency predicted . |
| 26 | I have no doubt that there will be special preparations and allowances made by police and spectators for the Marathon , in which I will be competing for the first time tomorrow . |
| 27 | SOUTH AFRICA , who will be competing for the first time , are to stage the 1995 Rugby World Cup . |
| 28 | But what , I think we do need to have is quite a a a a a we 've not a no solution body who would agree with me , er you know , some of the things that have gone on within the er er agricultural industry in terms of gang masters , which is if if surely if if if we had been more clearly defined if would enforce probably the whole industry into disrepute , and I feel that we do need a a a a a a a framework , with a with a supply into Europe , because in the end we will not just be competing against other European countries we will be competing against the third world and some producers that are producing very different situations , so , I I think er , and and I 'm concerned that it is the , it is that delegation , and it is the interpretation that our own government will put on it , because there 's been so much mythology surrounding Europe . |
| 29 | I think it ought to be made clear that the the voices that you can hear , or will be hearing in the next half an hour or so will be that of the television . |
| 30 | ‘ We will be looking over the next few months to see what longer term solution can be devised . ’ |