Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the West we are constantly telling the Third World to save the rain forests — rather hypocritical considering we are not even prepared to replace the tree cover destroyed over the years in Essex . ’ |
| 2 | The eye can not rest on one thing , as in traditional circus , but you are constantly seeking the next thrill . |
| 3 | So we 're just rearranging the first expression , okay , and getting this one right so now we 've got er a decision rule to obtain a , farmers will form their expectation of prices say next year , in T right , on the basis of last year 's price , last year 's actual price and last year 's , the expectation of last year 's actual price okay . |
| 4 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 5 | The international system not only has a major division between communist and capitalist states but also deeper cultural divisions between what are usually termed the First and Third worlds . |
| 6 | ‘ But we will have the first National Hunt racing on all-weather anywhere in the world at our first meeting ( Lingfield 's opening card is all Flat ) and we are also staging the first trials at racing pace on the new surface ( they take place on Sunday ) . ’ |
| 7 | We are now entering the last decade of our century and of our millennium , which has been declared a ‘ Decade of Evangelism ’ . |
| 8 | We are now seeing the first signs of recovery and all forecasters expect to see our economy growing again in the coming year . |
| 9 | The sport , he added , gives an enormous amount of pleasure to a lot of people , ‘ We are now seeing the second generation enjoying our facilities — youngsters whose parents used to ride around our tracks . ’ |
| 10 | Gradually the old has merged with the new and the grandchildren of the ‘ young couples ’ who moved into the ‘ new ’ houses are now becoming the second generation to attend Keyingham school . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm away to catch the last tram , ’ she smiled . |
| 12 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 13 | Question again proposed , That the Bill be now read the Third time . |
| 14 | I beg to move , That the Bill be now read the Third time . |
| 15 | The steering group are currently writing the first draft of these standards of performance . |