Example sentences of "[v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] be " in BNC.

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1 Two methods of resolving the first problem are :
2 At the time of writing the next excursion is not far ahead , on Saturday the 15th of July .
3 Fitting a second drive is an easy task well within the capabilities of the average user who knows one end of a screwdriver from the other .
4 Seeking a second opinion is strongly advised to obtain an objective assessment .
5 In their application to authenticity testing the first consideration is whether the sample size required is likely to inflict unacceptable damage .
6 The final day for selling the shares without paying the last instalment is 26 March .
7 In short course in-shore racing the first beat is the most important leg of the race .
8 But the nearest Sunderland came to producing a third goal was the result of a dreadful 68th minute blunder by Digweed .
9 The second great invention for supporting the first invention is finding how to relate the invention itself to the public .
10 Examining the twentieth century was like having to apply a quota to allow the underprivileged into college .
11 Experience is the name of the game , and surviving the first fight is the hard part .
12 If your camcorder has twin speeds , it might be a good idea to repeat the exercise at the LP speed , assuming the first recording was done at the standard speed .
13 Since the reorganization twelve years ago , the ethnic composition of the school has gradually changed until the proportion of black pupils entering the first year is well over half .
14 The long line of hedge bordering the next field was a good fifty yards away .
15 One of the traps adults fall into in learning a second language is that of embarking on speaking without adequate listening .
16 Because the actual program is short , re-entering the second program is very quick and easy .
17 Marrying a first cousin was considered the best possible arrangement .
18 In ‘ Sweeney Erect ’ the modern seems closer to the savage Polyphemus than to Emerson , and the delight in attacking the nineteenth century is obvious ; but so is the tension between modern and ancient .
19 Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned .
20 His discussions of what was ‘ acceptable damage ’ in return for striking the first blow was ‘ somewhere between ten and sixty million dead .
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