Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His financial transactions during the start-up period are listed below in the first column and are identified by capital letters . |
| 2 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 3 | Notice how the sunset and the greeting are welded together in the last stanzas and are transformed into the endless journey and ‘ human sweetness ’ of the last three lines . |
| 4 | They should never have been developed separately in the first place . |
| 5 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 6 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 7 | Balance c/f — Amounts which are carried forward to the next day 's tabular ledger . |
| 8 | In Western Europe this change has been located anywhere between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 9 | The Tour has been won twice on the last stage . |
| 10 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 11 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 12 | And now to a village where the church bells have been rung properly for the first time in twenty years . |
| 13 | " Now " is better used in study than in unprofitable re-writing of what should have been done well in the first place . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged . |
| 15 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 16 | For effectiveness , then , magazines and journals tend to reach the most relevant markets , provided they are selected carefully in the first place . |
| 17 | When the required number of enemies are blown away , you 're plunged straight into the next level with no celebration on respite . |
| 18 | There are four samey levels to battle through , and as soon as you 've waded your way through the current one you 're whipped away to the next . |
| 19 | The reader might like to check that , if the second and third digits are used instead of the third and fourth , there will be seven synonyms instead of eight ( 00 , 01 , 01 , 04 , 09 , 12 , 12 ) . |
| 20 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 21 | In parts of the West Country and the South , much of the land had been enclosed long before the fifteenth century , whereas in some of the northern counties the movement did not get under way until late in the sixteenth . |
| 22 | ‘ What is important now is to collect as much information as possible before the sites retreat still further — and before any are washed away in the next big storm . ’ |
| 23 | BRITISH hopes of returning to normalcy in negotiations with China over the future of Hong Kong appeared to have been thwarted yesterday as the 14th round of Sino-British talks ended with only limited signs of progress . |
| 24 | A NEW blood vessel ‘ drill ’ which can relieve blocked arteries supplying the heart has been used successfully for the first time by surgeons in Britain . |
| 25 | This method has been used only in the twentieth century . |
| 26 | That there were chemically different gases had been shown earlier in the 18th century . |
| 27 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 28 | I simply , I simply ca n't deal with the question because some of these are , are raised now for the first time |
| 29 | no I 'm not , I 'm sorry I said some of them are raised now for the first time , I was about to say I 'm not complaining I 'm simply pointing out , standing here without the instructions I ca n't deal with the matter |
| 30 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |