Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The show is intended to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the British Antique Dealers ' Association . |
| 2 | What is he going to say when he discovers that he is expected to transmit the first report from an advisory unit in the history of government to include an account of the Director 's domestic arrangements ? |
| 3 | Last month it doubled the speed of its 486 chip and later this year the company is expected to introduce the next generation processor , the 586 . |
| 4 | Yamaichi is expected to become the 20th market-maker this summer ; it has recruited two of S.G. Warburg 's best analysts . |
| 5 | Year II of the core subjects is designed to develop the first year taxonomy of skills at a problem-solving and decisional level and to provide an integrative view of the office environment . |
| 6 | Paul has an enviable record in both his sales and sales training performance , and he is endeavouring to become the fourth Fellow of the Professional Sales Guild . |
| 7 | Abroad , he has already attained a high respect internationally for the manner in which he is endeavouring to help the third world and to play a responsible part in eastern Europe . |
| 8 | Now the Standing Conference of Principals , the national body which represents colleges like Chester , is to meet to discuss the next move and there are calls to ignore Mr Boswell 's rejection of their case . |
| 9 | Miss Boothroyd is seeking to become the first woman speaker . |
| 10 | Everyone present knows what is to be done , indeed has rehearsed it , and all that is needed to trigger the next move is a loud noise from the expected direction . |
| 11 | Within the next few weeks , Sparc International Inc is going to release the next iteration of its interface definition for the Sparc RISC architecture . |
| 12 | But even if this tape is going to record the last speech of somebody famous and it did n't get and therefore they could n't record it , that is co , the consequence of a delay , you know , a fall of snow or our vehicle breaking down or something not being done , or missed some in human , some human error , it 's not our , we do n't lay , we 'll give , we 'll insure or offer transit liability on the value of the goods providing you 've got additional full transit liability with us , but we wo n't for the loss of business because you did n't get it . |
| 13 | For example , " What do you think about Mr Gorbachev ? " or " Who do you think is going to win the next election ? " |
| 14 | The position detector pulse sent to the control unit is used to generate the next step command . |
| 15 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 16 | CROONER Des O'Connor is expecting to have the last laugh on his critics by soaring to the top of the Christmas hit parade . |
| 17 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 18 | Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , one of the Sparc system manufacturers that plans to build a workstation compatible with Sun Microsystems Inc 's Mbus-based Sparcstation 10 ( UX No 392 ) , is set to become the first customer for Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's 64-bit HyperSparc RISC chip , a CPU which has garnered no discernible industry support since its launch back in May ( UX No 385 ) . |
| 19 | In some areas , however , the ‘ wherever practicable ’ is translated to mean the seventh day , not the first . |
| 20 | During one of the many radio interviews he undertakes during the week , he is asked to name the first record he ever bought for a programme called Super DJ On Line . |
| 21 | This technique of free association , in which the patient is encouraged to say the first thing that comes to mind , reveals connotations of the dream image which might otherwise not have been obvious . |
| 22 | Computerworld interprets IBM 's willingness to make public its plans for OS/2 3.0 as the latest advance in the clash with Microsoft Corp : having lost out in the personal computer operating system game , where OS/2 is lagging far behind compared with MS-DOS and Windows , IBM is trying to position the next generation OS/2 competitively against Microsoft 's forthcoming NT operating system . |
| 23 | A fun weekend is planned to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the opening of Ferryhill Leisure Centre . |
| 24 | Joanne Conway , who is hoping to become the first woman for more than 20 years to win five successive titles , made a strong start at the Skate Electic British championships in Basingstoke . |
| 25 | Courtaulds Aerospace at Littleborough in the UK is hoping to become the first business in its industry to gain an award under the new Investors in People scheme which recognises training to national standards . |
| 26 | Alistair Campbell ( Wallasey ) is poised to become the first batsman to reach the 500 mark . |
| 27 | The child is required to memorise the next lesson in the centrally-prepared text-book , sufficiently to pass the next weekly , monthly or yearly test . |
| 28 | One Brownie is chosen to ask the first question . |