Example sentences of "be [verb] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 2 | For the celebration , soldiers of his Army had been forbidden to shave for the last month so that their faced would more nearly represent those of warriors of old . |
| 3 | To do that operation , you are expected to wait until the first of the month to start planning the month . |
| 4 | Margins are expected to improve in the second quarter when higher speed Viking chips are more available and more deliveries on higher end higher margin Sparc 10s are made . |
| 5 | European scientists have warned that an ozone hole could be created if a future winter was longer and colder — especially as levels of ozone-destroying chlorine in the atmosphere are expected to rise into the next century . |
| 6 | In so far as the plaintiffs are seeking to recover from the third defendant money which he has obtained for his own benefit or for the benefit of companies which are , in effect , his alter ego , I can see that the third party would have an overwhelming argument that it can not be just and equitable to require him to contribute to whatever the third defendant is ordered to pay to the plaintiffs . |
| 7 | The industry says that the figure should be almost 165,000 , and that more jobs are threatened to go in the next few months . |
| 8 | The problem can be quite severe , er we 've had a number of penalties introduced by customs and excise over the last few years but what we 're going to see from the 1st April in this year is interest being charged on overdue moneys paid to customs and excise and also a penalty charged where people make a mistake on their VAT returns , even where they make those mistakes quite innocently . |
| 9 | Hi I 'll just just show you what er well Kerry 'll 'll show you she knows what er what we 're what you 're going to do over the next day or so do n't you . |
| 10 | These these are a measure are n't they they 're a measure of the quality of what we 're going to do over the next two days and therefore I will come back to these tomorrow afternoon I will check through them and if everybody can say yes yes I 'm satisfied with that then we 've achieved what we set out to achieve today . |
| 11 | Okay then let me just by way of er introduction er to the concepts and the content of what we 're going to do over the next two days let me just put a very small fraction of a picture up here . |
| 12 | So , what we 're going to do for the next four months is look at the anatomy of a PC . |
| 13 | as possible to make it easier for them to set it up , is that we 're hoping to develop within the next er few months in fact , a certification form |
| 14 | Roger Bootle , chief economist at stockbrokers Greenwell Montagu , said yesterday : ‘ I think the recovery has been waiting to happen for the last couple of months . |
| 15 | I think if we are going to go into the next century with any real chance of providing proper education and training in the sixteen to nineteen age range , we need to do the job properly , and frankly I think the offer in Banbury at the moment is not up to scratch . |
| 16 | However , there has been very little success with captive breeding and few of the cubs which are born survive past the first year . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Many of your values , ideas and attitudes are set to change over the next twelve months . |
| 19 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 20 | Now the torrents and viperish fury that fired ‘ Weld ’ have subsided , it looks like a battle that had to be waged to get to the next stage — the calm , healing shores and sanguine odes of ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | CUMMINS Engine , the U.S. diesel engine maker with a plant in Darlington , claims it should be returning to profit in the first quarter of this year . |
| 23 | Erm , Mr explained the reason for changing this but basically it 's to , to swap us again and that it will read that for one , that for ninety four to ninety eight the standard of grass cutting be seven occasions per year and the county surveyor in consultation with the Chairman be authorized to accept tenders from suitable contractors and the contracts be let to commence on the first of March nineteen ninety four . |
| 24 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | Show how the " translate and test " instruction described on page 117 can be used to search for the first comma . |
| 26 | If the Offline Operator does not want to enter information , or has finished entering information but does not want to action it , the TAB and BACKSPACE keys can be used to move to the next or previous field requiring an entry . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | erm and with this money that I 'm going to earn in the first six weeks and then possibly erm getting a job while I 'm doing the correspondence course erm you know even if it 's just bar work and especially |
| 29 | If you 'd like to take those away with you will actually erm reinforce some of the things that I 'm going to say during the next hour . |
| 30 | I 'm going to write about the first time I met G.P. |