Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Patten said privatisation of the Property Services Agency , which builds and furnishes Government offices , will not be practicable until the second half of 1992 . |
| 3 | Bunny had taken the precaution of holding separate flying- and lighting-rehearsals on the Friday , with the result that the delays were structural rather than technical — the deck of the Jolly Roger swayed alarmingly during the fight between the pirates and the Lost Boys , and the ticking of the crocodile was found to be inaudible beyond the first three rows of the stalls . |
| 4 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 5 | It is a time-consuming operation but we estimate that it should be complete in the next two years . ’ |
| 6 | The first mass will be celebrated in 1995 , although the interior will not be complete until the next century . |
| 7 | The council will be composed of 30 members , 15 from each country , whose election should be complete within the next few weeks . |
| 8 | The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 . |
| 9 | The work will be complete by the second half of 1993 . |
| 10 | Although amendments to the published general SVQ specifications will not be possible during the first year , we will be consulting on whether the specifications should be added to for the second year . |
| 11 | It would not , however , be possible for the third defendant to suggest that the third party was in any way guilty of any illegal conduct . |
| 12 | in the last twenty four hours , and it will continue to be low in the next twenty four hours . |
| 13 | but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter ; ’ he also said that customers were enthusiastic about the new Alpha-based systems , adding that five major database vendors had committed to supporting the RISC chip . |
| 14 | He declined to make projections about fourth quarter earnings but noted that the US investment community ‘ expects us to be profitable in the fourth quarter . ’ |
| 15 | But like Rome and Compostela it began to be popular in the tenth and eleventh centuries . |
| 16 | The pitch and conditions will be different from the first game . |
| 17 | At the meeting-place of roads on the Plateau d'Iraty there are four things you can do : go unadventurously back the way you came , to Esterençuby ; carry on due east over the Col Bagargui along a tolerable but not always reassuring road into Larrau and the valley of Mauléon ; turn sharp left along a somewhat hazardous stretch of track rather than road towards the village of Men dive ( I funk Ed this route myself , after a short trial run , but bad roads do get mended or improved in the Pyrenees , so one year 's experience may be different from the next ) ; or turn to the right along the very scenic road into the Forêt d'Iraty itself . |
| 18 | Things may perhaps be different in the next century . |
| 19 | The combination of these two functions in Britain is seen as a safeguard against the development of authoritarian police methods , but it brings other problems , as the methods of public control necessary to one function may not always be acceptable for the second . |
| 20 | Now I 've found out that he is n't my father I 'm learning to be free for the first time in my life , do you understand ? ’ |
| 21 | General Motors approached the Smithsonian six or seven years ago asking if we would be interested in the last Cadillac convertible from its assembly line . |
| 22 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc fears it has been misunderstood : the company is keen to stress that Finance Director Les Kemp has the unhappy confusion over last year 's accounting figures under control ( CI No 2,162 ) but wants to know how accountants KPMG Peat Marwick managed not to sign the audit report for subsidiary Enterprise Computer Services ; apparently there was confusion at the time over the verification of certain bank loans ; all should be clear in the next report and the company says it expects to show a return to profit . |
| 23 | are easing now and er should be clear in the next few minutes , due to the accident having been cleared from the carriageway . |
| 24 | It should be clear from the last chapter that they both play a role in determining the equilibrium level of income and employment and that a change in any one of them will cause the level of national income to change via the multiplier effect . |
| 25 | It would probably be dark for the last half-mile or so of his walk home . |
| 26 | The majority of the buildings house the vats and equipment used in the brewing process , a scene that , with a few modern exceptions , could be straight from the 19th century . |
| 27 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to select two , I told you I 'd be serious in the last part , the whole is here , is select the two pads you like best , please , and put one at the front of the binder and one at the back . |
| 28 | SSP will not be payable for the first 3 Qualifying Days in any PIW ; these are the waiting days . |
| 29 | It is intended to identify specific issues for attention within a comprehensive national agenda of issues of science and technology policy thought likely to be prominent over the next 10-15 years . |
| 30 | It should be noted that the same definition of " in the course of a business " would appear to be appropriate to the second limb of the definition , concerned with the status of the supplier ; the Court of Appeal in R&B relied on decisions concerned with the meaning of supplies " in the course of business " under the Trade Descriptions Acts ( see Davies v Sumner [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 831 ; Havering LBC v Stephenson [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 1375 ) . |