Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1989 the ‘ First National Conference on Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskritam ’ was organised by the Computer Society of India in Bangalore , bringing together for the first time linguists and computer scientists from all over India . |
| 2 | Old enemies now competing together at the first ever international games for disabled ex-servicemen . |
| 3 | Furthermore , if males are in short supply in one generation , they will be selectively favoured by contributing disproportionately to the next generation . |
| 4 | The stolen cars have been occurring now over the last year . |
| 5 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , Claire , of Warwick Street , Middlesbrough , can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 6 | Since having the frame fitted at Middlesbrough General Hospital , she can look forward to walking independently for the first time . |
| 7 | But it would not be difficult to construct post hoc explanations for fertility decline occurring earlier in the nineteenth century as well . |
| 8 | This was acquired in the early ‘ twenties by the Noyce family and they continued trading there for the next sixty years . |
| 9 | Yet all this time the front wheel is pointing dead ahead and the bike is driving hard towards the next , faster left . |
| 10 | The Hong Kong government had announced on Nov. 19 that it was pressing ahead with the next stage of construction of the airport , despite a lack of agreement with China . |
| 11 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 12 | The action was highly controversial , occurring mid-way through the second phase of Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 38693 ] . |
| 13 | Here we are , then , me and Anna , starving romantically in the next best thing to a garret : a tiny room in a dreadful hotel near the Pantheon . |
| 14 | I 'm 32 and have been climbing seriously for the last 18 years , which helped me get accepted . |
| 15 | Bedford25pts Waterloo4 BEDFORD , bailing furiously below the Second Division Plimsoll line , were in deep trouble at Goldstone Road on Saturday until , in the 35th minute , Paul Hackett , the Waterloo hooker , was sent off for stamping . |
| 16 | Although there is no independent evidence for the behaviour of Basina , the name Basena is known from a silver ladle , dating perhaps to the sixth century , found at Weimar . |
| 17 | Hell 's teeth , baby — we 've been living together for the last two years or more . ’ |
| 18 | The play tells the story of two young men who were separated by class and culture as children , who for different reasons end up serving together in the First World War . |
| 19 | But he declined to say whether the inspectors — two teams acting together for the first time in Iraq — had found any of the Scud missiles the United Nations thinks Iraq is hiding . |
| 20 | Comparing the ‘ Charlie Parker Story ’ directly with Vogue 's 14-track ‘ Original Bird ’ release ( and in effect listening critically for the first time ) , I found the Denon ‘ sound recovery ’ system somewhat inconsistent in places . |
| 21 | In my dreams , I am still out there now , jinking into the chicane in second , piling on the power through third and into the pit straight , drifting left for the marker cone , turning in , clipping the apex and howling away to the second corner . |
| 22 | It stands like a phallic exhortation to the newly-weds living around it , but was a hive of industry once , dating possibly from the seventeenth century . |
| 23 | North of the town centre on the Stroud road , several old stone-built mill buildings survive , of which the largest is Dunkirk Mills , dating partly from the eighteenth century . |
| 24 | In the grounds of Mapledurham House , where Alexander Pope visited the Blount sisters , is a brick and timber water mill , dating partly from the fifteenth century , with later additions , the oldest surviving mill on the River Thames . |
| 25 | Business corporations such as Unilever , ICI and Shell were operating transnationally in the nineteenth century , but their proliferation and freedom of operation has been greatly facilitated , since the Second World War , by technological development . |
| 26 | And then , deciding that it was time to start dropping bombshells , ‘ Some actresses have continued acting well into the eighth month of pregnancy . ’ |
| 27 | Although there was no hospital in the northern part of the town , where forces loyal to Mahdi Mohammed were concentrated , a surgical team sent by the International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) began operating there in the first week of December . |
| 28 | In view of the vast size of Siberia , the relatively small numbers of Russians operating there in the seventeenth century , and the difficulty of carrying out a census of a mobile population , it seems likely that these figures somewhat underestimate the number of indigenous Siberians before the Russian conquest . |
| 29 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 30 | No it 's it 's the one week which bridges the two erm months , but er er I will be , that we would normally be meeting again on the thirteenth of September , would n't we ? |