Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vast amount of preliminary activity , including the collection of quotations and the selection and training of staff , had to be undertaken before the first material went to press in 1965 . |
| 2 | How can this implication be justified when the last decade has witnessed a real growth in public spending , particularly on health and society security , coupled with an increase in overall taxation ? |
| 3 | It should therefore be emphasized that the first objective within the UGIX project is to improve access to existing GlS by converting the current function-orientation of the native system interface to a task-oriented interface usable by a spatially aware user ( see Fig. 7.2 for a taxonomy of interfaces for ARC/INFO at the time of writing in 1990 ) . |
| 4 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 5 | It must not be forgotten that the first person to give evidence about the injuries is going to be the plaintiff . |
| 6 | The expected utility of a non-member can be written as The ith worker joins the union if and only if , that is , where Thus the individual joins when his or her evaluation of the reputation gain from complying with the custom of membership exceeds the utility loss from paying union dues . |
| 7 | She is now a ward of court and no decision about her future can be made until the next court hearing on Tuesday , said a social services chief with Hammersmith and Fulham Council in west London . |
| 8 | She is a ward of court and no decision about her future can be made until the next court hearing on Tuesday , said a social services official with Hammersmith and Fulham council in west London . |
| 9 | It can , therefore , be seen that the first test which the pursuer must meet is in relation to liability . |
| 10 | It will be seen that the second view and the proposed model are mutually supportive , since the model can predict effects of cultural factors corresponding to observed results . |
| 11 | Thus , in the example just given , it can be seen that the Sixth VAT Directive is based on Articles 99 and 100 of the EEC Treaty concerning , respectively , harmonization of tax legislation and the approximation of laws affecting the functioning of the common market . |
| 12 | It can be said that the first wisdom of sociology is that — things are not what they seem . |
| 13 | The effects of new policies would only be felt when the next analysis was made when , presumably , such effects would be picked up in observable data . |
| 14 | The third term is the real image term from which the object can be reconstructed and the last term is the twin image term , in holographic terminology . |
| 15 | Incidentally it should be remembered that the first picture ( Fig. 22.3 ) is actually the second stage of the sequence , because this pattern is itself the consequence of an instability that occurs only if the Rayleigh number is high enough ( Sections 22.2 , 22.3 ) ; however the first stage could only be represented by a picture which was ‘ a perfect and absolute blank ’ . |
| 16 | Examinations will continue to be provided until the last candidates enrolled under the old system have completed the normal duration of their course . |
| 17 | Examinations will continue to be provided until the last candidates enrolled under the old system have completed the normal duration of their course . |
| 18 | However , the election will be desperately close and the final result may not be known until the last constituencies ' counts are declared tomorrow . |
| 19 | However , there will be , for a very long time , others who will believe that their interests and ambitions can best be served if the First Choice were to be retained as the basic guide to human development . |
| 20 | If the ball is missed by the batsman , the wicket will be hit and the tenth l.e.d. will light . |
| 21 | Writing about the earliest Ottoman historical text , Inalcik states : It is to be observed that the first compilation originated in the period of struggle for the existence of the Ottoman state alter the fateful defeat in 1402 . |
| 22 | It will be observed that the first subsection is couched in the language of ‘ defence . ’ |
| 23 | The purpose of such an approach would be to demonstrate that the second language has the same potential for use as the first language , encourage learners to draw on their own experience of language by applying familiar procedures to the interpretation of second language use , and so to teach the second language system not as an end in itself but as a resource for the achievement of meaning . |
| 24 | They take less than 30 seconds to do and they should be left until the last moment before the cable or rope is attached . |
| 25 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 26 | It started in 1976 and it says something about the timescale over which these sorts of things have to be planned that the first results of any value appeared 16 years later . |
| 27 | we are at the moment er going through er an experiment compost an experimental site where this is going on er near Hertford and erm we are obviously interested to see how that goes before that may , or may not , be extended and the second thing is that there has been a green cone experiment going on in conjunction with Welwyn Hatfield District whereby erm householders |