Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims * yourself , you will be entitled to a premium discount which is normally one sixth of the new premium . |
| 2 | And , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , the basic rate is only £1.25 per £1,000 . |
| 3 | But , if you are prepared to pay the first £50 of any claim yourself , you will be entitled to a discount — normally 50p per £1,000 of insurance . |
| 4 | If you are prepared to pay the first £50 of all claims yourself , you will be entitled to a discount on your premium . |
| 5 | If you 're willing to pay the first £100 of any claim , your premium will fall by a further 10% . |
| 6 | Because as you know if you fail twice you 're sure to fail the third time . |
| 7 | Now you 're ready to knit the next row and that 's all there is to it . |
| 8 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 9 | Because there is.little , if any , evidence of mosaics of the late-third century in Britain , it has been customary to assign the first mosaics of this diagnostic Orpheus sequence to this period ( see above ) . |
| 10 | She had worked ten years in the West End and had no friends in the suburb where she and Ron had been lucky to get the second floor of a house when they married two years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , how nice to be able to refuse , when most of us are glad to accept the first offer ! |
| 12 | Even though workers are prepared to accept a general reduction in the level of real wages , they are unwilling to take the first step of accepting money wage cuts in case other workers with whom they regard themselves as comparable fail to follow suit . |
| 13 | There are many to argue the first point . |
| 14 | In SWDs and SSDs , it would be possible to accept the first definition almost unreservedly . |
| 15 | It was the , the British Corpus asked us if we would be willing to record the last council meeting , because they wanted to , erm , get dialects and accents and use of words from different parts of the country , and they were so enthralled by our display , they 've asked for a further two meetings . |
| 16 | On the other hand , it is my opinion that when a decision-making body is called upon to reach a decision which arises out of the relationship between two persons or firms , only one of whom is directly under the control of the decision-making body , and it is apparent that the decision will be likely to affect the second person adversely , then as a general proposition the decision-making body does owe some duty of fairness to that second person , which , in appropriate circumstances , may well include a duty to allow him to make representations before reaching the decision . |
| 17 | I put in when I planted the garden because I thought that would be useful to know the next year . |
| 18 | That evening Clive could only grin and bear it , but when I told him I would n't be able to do the second summer course he was distinctly cool . |
| 19 | Congress might just be able to form the next government alone ; if not , it would try to split bits off other parties . |
| 20 | We wo n't be able to take the second case of wine . ’ |
| 21 | You were looking at the beetle world in such a way as to be able to see the third dimension . |
| 22 | We can say with certainty that we would be able to mount the first kind of display ; but at the moment we can not be so certain about the travelling display which , although the more attractive proposition , has much more significant resource implications . |
| 23 | I am sure that the Secretary of State will be able to explain the next point to me , because it is so simple . |
| 24 | While Mr Major has signalled that he wants to leave the choice up to backbenchers , he is understood to favour the new Speaker coming from the Tory ranks , dashing Labour hopes that they might be able to nominate the next occupant of the Speaker 's chair . |
| 25 | Suddenly Reading was the Glastonbury you could go to and still be able to catch the last train home . |
| 26 | We might thus be able to provide the first step in assisting a school to maximise any award which it receives . |
| 27 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 28 | so I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos , you know ai n't got no money . |
| 29 | So I wo n't be able to pay the first payment cos you know I ai n't got no money . |
| 30 | I hope will be happy to read the first lesson . |