Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The announcement has been delayed until next week , to avoid clashing with the Prime Minister 's speech to the Conservative conference today . |
| 2 | In the last four bars the melodic line is carried by the two clarinets in unison , and extra grace-notes which do not appear in the original are given to 2nd flute and 2nd oboe with the object of enhancing the suggestion of the chirping and clucking of chickens . |
| 3 | The situation has been publicised since last year by the relief agencies and others , but the UN was slow to get involved . |
| 4 | The use of this method in the mouse is currently in its infancy and since the procedure requires cells to pass through a round of replication in the presence of BrdU , it can only be used in cultured cells , which , because of the numbers required , are limited to third passage embryonic fibroblasts from pooled day 12 — IS embryos . |
| 5 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 6 | Three new tournaments and four new locations have been included on next year 's PGA European Tour schedule . |
| 7 | Five teams ( from Divisions II-IV ) have been dropped from last season 's event and Currie hope that in the future both Melrose and Gala will be able to participate , though the uncertainty over the pair 's national league match precluded their involvement this year . |
| 8 | This year the grant has been frozen at last year 's level , with no uprating for inflation . |
| 9 | New acts are attracted by First Division managers because we are visible and our addresses are in Music Week . |
| 10 | Director of public relations , Linda Moore says : ‘ Rates are pegged at last year 's prices for most holidays , with special interests up slightly , but not as a result of the Directive . |
| 11 | A meeting has been organised for next week to discuss the situation . |
| 12 | If the person has been prepared for First Communion by being helped to develop a sense of belonging with others who believe , by being helped to develop a sense of the sacred , and by being helped to develop a sense of the presence of Jesus , and a desire to be in communion with Him and in communion with the others present , the experience of First Communion will be rich and powerful . |
| 13 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 14 | And , ironically , both opportunities to manage Glentoran Seconds have been presented by first team boss Robert Strain . |
| 15 | Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway . |
| 16 | SOCCER : Harwich and Parkeston manager Martin Head is currently thinking over his future with the Jewson League club , which suggests he will have left by the start of next season.Head says , ‘ Both the club and myself are looking to next season and we are in the middle of talks . |
| 17 | Funding Silotank has been operating since last year , but was officially opened yesterday at a reception attended by representatives of the organisations which have supplied funding for the venture . |
| 18 | Assuming they are accepted into next year 's Associate Members Cup — the decision will be made in July — the Scottish Cricket Union 's plans are well in hand and involve the players being away from home for five successive weeks . |
| 19 | ( ellipted items : been swimming in second clause ) . |
| 20 | THE team entrusted with the task of putting the little-known sport of boccia on the British sporting map has been selected following last week 's national championships at York University . |
| 21 | Chairman , instead of primarily addressing the issues of overspending on the education budget and the future of the elderly persons ' homes and also the securing of a secure unit these are pushed into second place when the Labour group can see the opportunity of headline grabbing and satisfying their overriding need to tell everyone how to live . |
| 22 | Several of the gasifier systems commercially available are made by Second World War manufacturers . |
| 23 | Well we 're done for next week . |
| 24 | ‘ My morale wo n't be shattered if we do n't win , I suppose we 're going for second place . |
| 25 | So yeah we 're talking we 're talking in terms of starting we 're talking about next week or the week after . |
| 26 | You 're talking about last year are n't you ? |
| 27 | It seems to me that they are describing at first hand a world made up of physical materials similar to those which we can see and touch , with an invisible ( to most of us ) non-material life force much like the ether superimposed on it and within it . |
| 28 | Variceal haemorrhage in cirrhotic patients carries high early mortality ranging from 31.6 to 63.3% , even when balloon tamponade , drugs or emergency sclerotherapy are used as first line treatment . |
| 29 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 30 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |