Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [num ord] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | More controversial shots of a spoof wedding ceremony and a lesbian couple kissing , both featuring bare breasts , have been placed in the second of two rooms housing the exhibition . |
| 2 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 3 | The bank finally agreed to loan sixteen thousand pounds for the business plus overdraught facilities and a further nine thousand pounds secured on our client 's home repayable over five years , any further mortgage over a future was to be arranged elsewhere and my Lord er will hear that in fact the , having the sale of their home having been completed on the fifth of December the plaintiffs were then homeless for some three months living with their daughter until such times as they were able to arrange a mortgage on their present property with the Halifax . |
| 4 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 5 | and other relationships are subsumed under the second of these categories , for example : |
| 6 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 7 | But if you for example you 're born on the sixteenth of the month then that 's generally when it would be paid on the sixteenth . |
| 8 | Applications are invited for the second of two new lecturer posts awarded by the UFC Review of Meteorology to the School of Environmental Sciences . |
| 9 | More ominously , some are now asking whether the days are numbered for the last of the Edwardian motor cars — Rolls-Royce was founded in Manchester in 1904 — and whether cars of this size , weight and cost can really be justified in an era of increased social awareness and growing environmental concerns . |
| 10 | The disarming process was due to begin from the moment of Senora Chamorro 's inauguration and be completed by the tenth of June . |
| 11 | English National Soprano , Lesley Garrett will be singing in the third of the 4 concerts . |
| 12 | He may with good reason be regarded as the first of that long line of professional civil servants who did more than any others to make and destroy the medieval Church : they were professional administrators , equipped to forward the interests of government not by main force but by negotiation amidst the intricate issues of law and theology ; men of international standing , retaining the respect of their opponents , and not too hatefully or too personally involved in the cause which they were required to maintain . |
| 13 | In cases where the original credit holder has died without claiming repayment and the Post War Credit certificate is still available , repayment can be made to the next of kin or personal representative of the estate . |
| 14 | ‘ To think I may be looking at the last of the Corbetts . ’ |
| 15 | Sebastiane ( Virgin , 18 , rental ) , with its nude centurions cavorting in the sun , is well-known ; but his homo-erotic visual poetry can also be seen in The Last of England ( Island Visual Arts , 18 , rental ) , in which a junkie skinhead roams through a land of urban detritus . |
| 16 | : It can be seen from the first of the above tables that the mean coverage given by the second level ( 8% ) is just over half that of the first level ( 14% ) . |
| 17 | If they do , objections will have to be lodged by the 8th of July . |
| 18 | So obviously no one who 's got an establishment contract will be affected from the first of July , but really everyone who 's on a temporary contract , those contracts are very much in the melting pot , and we 've got a meeting on the nineteenth of May s an extra C S M T meeting , to say , right this is how much money we 've got , these are the people with temporary contracts but the third and most important factor really is this is a new assessment of the workload of every office , and whereas in the past careers officer establishment has been based exclusively on year eleven figures and other staffing has been based on pretty arbitrary factors of historical nature |
| 19 | Separated bridles linked to two lines enabled this American invention to be positioned within reasonable accuracy over any likely shipwreck victim.The kite was star shaped and would thus lack the refinement of current designs ; but nevertheless , it must be credited as the first of the steerables . |
| 20 | The agreement for this should be reached on the second of November . |
| 21 | As incessant rain lashed the town in late July , 1798 , to be followed on the 28th of that month by one of the worst floods in living memory , John 's health can hardly have improved — and who knows what bacteria he was daily picking up from his father 's butchery ? |
| 22 | attendance allowances for members , I would move that er , a scheme be commenced from the first of April ninety-four , and that the wording attached to the paper , be altered in two respects , in place of the phrase is a person over sixty-nine years of age , the words is an elderly person , and more significantly at the end of paragraph four , and normally lives with a member as part of the member 's family and be able to be left at th , be unable to be left unsupervised , be added , And that er , power to delegate a director of financial to amend the rates of allowances from time to time rates of attendance allowance for members , and that the scheme be met from the overall member 's allowance to which we recently referring . |
| 23 | All prizes must be taken by the 30th of April 1992 . |
| 24 | The actual monthly pension the the lump sum would be paid on the first of September . |
| 25 | The direct debit instruction will be paid on the 1st of the following month . |
| 26 | His autobiography would be published on the fifth of November . |
| 27 | £10,000 would be released as the first of a three year commitment . |
| 28 | CASH prizes , cameras and toys await the winners of the Boots Northern Ireland Children of the Year competition to be held on the 7-11th of September . |
| 29 | European eyes are fixed on the first of these figures : public spending that is now shooting through the ceiling set in the EC 's self-denying ordinance of 1988 . |
| 30 | The Constitution Scrutiny Committee on Nov. 13 made substantial changes to the draft constitution , which had already been passed in the first of three readings by the National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) . |