Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The loads on the structure are lower during the first half of the launch and it is not unusual to exceed the placard speed for a few seconds during the initial steepening of the climb . |
| 2 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 3 | In fact , the revenue has been stable for the last three years . |
| 4 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 5 | ‘ She had been depressed during the last 18 months but I thought she was getting better . |
| 6 | Finally , in the Western Hemisphere region where , among developing regions , infant mortality is lowest , the pattern resembles that observed lately in low infant mortality , developed countries , i.e. , the chances of surviving infancy are greatest for the first births and the relationship tends to be linear . |
| 7 | So far as mining is concerned , the long colliery shifts of the nineteenth century do not seem to have been usual in the eighteenth . |
| 8 | He confessed that he might inadvertently have been guilty of the second on occasion and freely admitted to taking gifts of the third kind , which he regarded as entirely permissible . |
| 9 | Real incomes for farmers have not been lower since the second world war , according to the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 10 | More than 7,000 jobs were moved in 1989 and almost 20,000 more are due over the next two years with the government in the van , say researchers Jones Lang Wootton in a survey published yesterday . |
| 11 | Further announcements are due over the next two years . |
| 12 | Unix versions for Sparc , Precision Architecture , Rios Power RISC and Santa Cruz Operation Inc Unix on iAPX-86 are due in the second half of the year . |
| 13 | The European language user interfaces USL is developing are due in the second quarter . |
| 14 | Unix versions for Sparc , HP , IBM and Intel/SCO platforms are due in the second half . |
| 15 | NetLS software developer kits are due in the third quarter . |
| 16 | First application programming interfaces are due in the third quarter . |
| 17 | NetLS software developer kit are due in the third quarter . |
| 18 | DCE Application Development Tools are $150 and DCE Enhanced File Services , which are due in the fourth quarter , are $3,000 . |
| 19 | First system shipments are due around the third quarter . |
| 20 | Details are due after the next Budget in November . |
| 21 | Many course combinations are possible during the first three years , facilitating transfer between these three streams . |
| 22 | We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . |
| 23 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |
| 24 | If Charles Dodgson had been alive during the Second World War he would have surely been recruited for Station X , not only for his mathematics but also for his amphigory . |
| 25 | In the later decades of this period particularly , they could seldom be openly asserted with the conviction which had been possible in the sixteenth century and much of the seventeenth . |
| 26 | The expression has been extinct since the second world war . |
| 27 | The only relatively new thing about it was its romantic and truthful name , which someone in the family had thought up early in the nineteenth century as an improvement on ‘ The Leybourne Arms ’ ; for the Leybourne family had been extinct since the fourteenth century , while salmon regularly did return several miles up-river from this house , and were regularly taken for a mile on either side . |
| 28 | Under the management of CEO Denis Brown , and financially re-structured ( UX No 402 ) , the company has been profitable for the last six quarters and is once again in growth mode , although margins are down and international sales weak . |
| 29 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 30 | Orrell are top of the first division … but then again there are n't many easy matches to be had when you look at the other ties |