Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 2 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 3 | Only for the black bean aphid Aphis fabae has it been possible to develop over the last 25 years an effective system to predict migration several months ahead to advise farmers when to spray . |
| 4 | ‘ What I have been interested to witness over the last year to 18 months is a newly confident Left in the Socialist International saying we have a common formulation about the best way to proceed . |
| 5 | Now commuting is a consequence of human nature to a large extent , people choose to live away from their place of work and if they do choose to live away from their place of work then we 'll need a much more authoritarian government than we are likely to see in the next ten or twenty years to stop people from living away from their place of work . |
| 6 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 7 | These trends are likely to persist within the next five years , and necessitate a continuous review of the IT market-place , and mechanisms to ensure that Garden staff are using the most cost-effective IT in pursuit of Garden priorities . |
| 8 | Held at Chilworth Manor , near Southampton , and organise by Hampshire Training and Enterprise Council , the one-day event examined the key issues which the industry are likely to face during the next three years . |
| 9 | While age has emerged as a predictor of the current linguistic achievement in BSL , it need not always be the case if BSL teachers are able to learn from the second language literature . |
| 10 | It was Willey , supported by Emburey , who kept it at bay , the final score being 391 for 7 ; admittedly , Roberts had hardly been able to bowl on the last day , but the home team had shown themselves that they could bat a bit if they tried . |
| 11 | You 've only been able to get through the last four years by not thinking about it . |
| 12 | It ought to be possible to tell within the next few weeks whether the measures the government has introduced over the past year are delivering the hoped-for results . |
| 13 | You must of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 14 | More of that later , you must also have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 15 | You must also , of course , have a valid passport , and you must be free to travel in the last two weeks of January . |
| 16 | From this position he could not expect to be prominent going to the first bend , the clubhouse turn , and Shoemaker held him back in about eighth place , some four horses out from the rails , as the runners came past the stands . |
| 17 | Since it is largely new , it might be appropriate to concentrate on the last chapter which " offers a reading of some very different Shakespearean plays " ( p. 196 ) . |
| 18 | Though no document had been so thoroughly prepared , there was a last-minute suggestion that it should be dropped , for it was clear that , if this schema was presented , the Council would not be able to finish with the third session . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope to be able to legislate in the next parliamentary session , ’ he said . |
| 20 | If Durham spends some of that cash in Darlington the Government should be able to help in the second and third year of development . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Just remember that and we might — just might — be able to get through the next few days without any major problems . ’ |
| 22 | In this way , should you be unable to attend at the last moment and he has to sit twiddling his thumbs in his consulting room because it is too late to give the appointment to anyone else , he is recompensed for the wasted time . |
| 23 | It would be unwise to elaborate on the last point . |
| 24 | To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice . |
| 25 | Among the ‘ do n't knows ’ were Mr Paul Dean and Mr Andrew Bingham , who will be eligible to vote for the first time . |
| 26 | IBM Corp is to license a version of its CICS/6000 CICS overlay for the Encina transaction processing monitor to Hewlett-Packard Co , which says it will offer it on its HP9000 Precision Architecture RISC-based Unix machines — but conversion of the IBM product will not be a simple task — it wo n't be ready to ship until the second half of 1993 . |
| 27 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 28 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 29 | Well we were supposed to meet after the last meeting which was cancelled . |
| 30 | With the adrenalin in full flow , both East and West concentrated on four further days ‘ curling at various venues in Toronto , at the end of which we were thrilled to emerge as the first Scottish team to win in Canada since 1949 . |