Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 2 | This tradition has been traced back to the sixth century AD . |
| 3 | Thousands of miles of Midland and East Anglian hedges have been ripped out in the last thirty years or so to accommodate the new agricultural demands and techniques . |
| 4 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 5 | Current members seem satisfied that they are receiving good value for money , and are signing up for the second membership year which starts in May . |
| 6 | Both of these are therefore reflected in the file as being attributes of the assembly and so are rolled up into the next hierarchical level . |
| 7 | Now the Japanese are gearing up for a third try . |
| 8 | Dr Haidar proudly explained that the bride , Mr Postman 's daughter , was a rare creature — a Muslim girl who had been educated up to the tenth class . |
| 9 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 10 | The operation is one of hundreds that have been carried out in the last few years by keyhole surgery . |
| 11 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 12 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 13 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 14 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 15 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 16 | But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow . |
| 17 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 19 | Yeah so we get one and the you 're going on to the next one . |
| 20 | We 're moving on to the next paper . |
| 21 | They 're coming back on the first Wednesday of next month with a bus load of about forty Women 's Institute members — ’ She broke off as she realised he was staring at her in horror . |
| 22 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 23 | The plans for the dump are spelt out for the first time in evidence from the CEGB to the Sizewell inquiry , now in its fourth week . |
| 24 | When the last mince pie had gone and the last slice of plum pudding had been washed down with the last drop of Madeira , the children were sent up to recapture the sleep of which Father Christmas ' bounty had robbed them . |
| 25 | It 's essential to erm , to what you 've been going through in the last , in the last few lectures . |
| 26 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 27 | The whiplash dynamics of Batman Returns represent the culmination of a process that has been going on for the last 15 years . |
| 28 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 29 | The accounts suggest that if this trend continues , ‘ the entire investment base of the Diocese will have been used up within the next two years . ’ |
| 30 | Most of these options have been closed out in the last two decades . |