Example sentences of "be [verb] in [adj] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A judge has decided the youngster should remain with her former foster parents until the case can be heard in full next year . |
| 2 | The second topic to be considered in this first section is integration . |
| 3 | Show how the Exclusive Or operation can be used to ( a ) clear a word , ( b ) interchange two words without using an intermediate location , and ( c ) add two binary numbers ( And and shift may be used in this last part , but not of course any arithmetic operations ) . |
| 4 | Surely this is where the efforts of the global environmental community must be focused in this last decade — the so-called ‘ turn-around ’ decade — of the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Project Elephant , to be announced in full next year , will be run as far as possible along the lines of India 's successful Operation Tiger . |
| 6 | In all , of the 350 commitments in the original White Paper , more than 200 have already been fulfilled in this first year alone and significant progress has been made with the remainder . |
| 7 | This has been documented in various Third World countries , notably Nigeria ( see Ihonvbere and Shaw , 1988 ) , Brazil ( Evans , 1979 ) and Egypt ( Gillespie , 1984 ) , and my own research on class forces along the US-Mexican border ( Sklair , 1989 ) and the Hong Kong-China border ( Sklair , forthcoming ) is cast in the same mould . |
| 8 | This was despite growing evidence that birth rates are falling in key third world states simply as a result of more widespread availability of contraceptives . |
| 9 | Under this settlement the two countries were placed in joint fourth position , the UK having ceded some of its IMF voting rights to allow Japan to rise from fifth to share joint second place with West Germany , thereby reflecting Japan 's increased financial weight in the world economy . |
| 10 | They were lying in joint third place behind France and Spain . |
| 11 | A total of 41 goals were recorded in six second division encounters , with leaders Liver Vaults ( James 2 , Shirley 2 ) beating New Hey B 4-3 in an exciting tussle . |
| 12 | The Grand Trunk 's Bonaventure Station in Montreal was built in French Second Empire style with a palatial waiting-room to match . |
| 13 | A few days later , I was standing in another third world airport . |