Example sentences of "is [verb] [prep] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , for a discount security with more than six months ( 182 days ) to maturity , the bond equivalent yield has to take into account the fact that the corresponding bond makes two coupon payments and that interest is earned by investing the first coupon . |
| 2 | The falsificationist is committed to preferring the first . |
| 3 | As they contain water , the first application may cause the grain to raise on some woods , and a light sanding is recommended before applying the second coat . |
| 4 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 5 | And it is a Scot who is credited with using the first ‘ cady ’ on the golf course , namely the Marquis of Montrose , who played on that delightful east-coast course in the 1620s and wrote in his accounts , ‘ payment of four shillings to the boy who carried my clubs ’ . |
| 6 | As a composer and a soloist Bach did much to champion the pianoforte , an instrument then being developed in London by German immigrant craftsmen : the sonatas Op. 5 are apparently the first works published in England to include the piano on the title-page , and Bach is credited with performing the first solo on the instrument in public in London in 1768 . |
| 7 | A further difference arising from naming is indicated by entitling the mid-seventeenth century the Civil War period . |
| 8 | Performance is increased by prefetching the next instruction during the execution of the current instruction . |
| 9 | The first has the advantage that no time is wasted in finding a first feasible solution . |
| 10 | Shiny-topped bass player Martyn Walsh is concentrating on perfecting a second art , that of saying ‘ Bollocks ’ while burping . |