Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
| 2 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
| 3 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 4 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 5 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 6 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 7 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
| 8 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
| 9 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 10 | THE internationally renowned Kenyan environmentalist , has been awarded the fifth Edinburgh Medal at a special ceremony . |
| 11 | Dr Eva Marianne Stern , guest curator of Roman glass at the Toledo Museum of Art , has been awarded the sixth ‘ L'Erma ’ di Bretschneider publication prize for her manuscript of Roman mould-blown glass . |
| 12 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |
| 14 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
| 15 | After the prize structure has been established the next most important decisions will concern the competition format . |
| 16 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
| 17 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 18 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 19 | What I should do is take the first one tonight . |
| 20 | On the IBM 370 range it is possible to specify that the execute is to modify the second byte of the executed instruction . |
| 21 | The easiest way of proceeding is to have the first row as YYYYNNNN , the second row as YYNNYYNN and the final row as YNYNYNYN . |
| 22 | The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged . |
| 23 | When you want to run a program ( such as WORD.COM ) , all you have to do is type the first part of the filename ( WORD ) . |
| 24 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 25 | Settis has impeccably international credentials for such an international institution , having held , among other posts , professorships in classical art and archaeology at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore , served on the faculty of the Ecole Normale Superiéure at Paris and in1991 having been appointed the first Warburg Professor at the University of Hamburg . |
| 26 | The basic way in which these c.c.d. lines operate is to have the first capacitor connected to the input so that it samples the input voltage . |
| 27 | Under RSC , Ord 65 , r 7 , if service is effected after 4 pm on a weekday or 12 noon on a Saturday , service is deemed to have been effected the next day or on Monday as the case may be . |
| 28 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 29 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 30 | Earlier , on Oct. 5 , Meera Sahib Fathima Beevi had been appointed the first woman member of the Supreme Court . |