Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pressures on household and corporate borrowers have been eased significantly since last October by a series of interest rate reductions , which have reduced base rates by a cumulative four and a half percentage points to date . |
| 2 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 3 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 4 | My best years are ahead of me and I am looking forward to next season . |
| 5 | Detective short stories are still produced , but they have been thrust firmly into second place , both in the minds of writers and readers , by the crime short story . |
| 6 | It is definitely an occasion that will run and run and the teams are looking forward to next year already . |
| 7 | Now they are looking forward to next year 's event and hoping to make it a hat-trick . |
| 8 | This is a topic which the E E F has been promoting hard since last October . |
| 9 | After a long approach slog , reaching the crest of a ridge usually means you 're getting somewhere at last . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you know , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ I rather think we 're getting somewhere at last . ’ |
| 11 | Make a date with the BBC Good Food calendar , which we are giving away in next month 's issue . |
| 12 | Carpet sales are running ahead of last year . |
| 13 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
| 14 | Secondly the allowance for inflation was based on a three per cent price increase and because of the very competitive nature of the prices we receive for maintenance work a sum of two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be carried forward into next year from this allowance , in other words the real purchasing power of the budget have been maintained and two hundred and seventy thousand pounds can be put aside to stand in the future . |
| 15 | Those remarks , like his attack on Stewart and Gooch , were not due to be made public until next week . |
| 16 | After hours of gruelling clearing-up work Duncan leapt lightly down from the van with the words ‘ I enjoyed that — I 'm looking forward to next year . ’ |
| 17 | Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light . |
| 18 | Guardian angels had survived the Reformation , though they led a less secure existence than in the Catholic Church , which in 1621 had decreed a festival of guardian angels , to be celebrated annually on 2nd October . |
| 19 | FIGURE 4 I 'm getting somewhere at last and feel quite happy . |
| 20 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 21 | It is hoped that the new procedure and new form may be introduced generally by 16th May when the new District Courts come into operation , but further information on this will be given next month . |
| 22 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 23 | ‘ Legislation will be brought forward in next year 's finance bill to implement the proposal from the earliest practicable date , which is 1996-97 . ’ |
| 24 | An extra £5 million would be brought forward from next year to offset the extra cost , but it would not be made up next year . |
| 25 | A French proposal to turn the Antarctic into a whale sanctuary failed to win the necessary three-quarters majority for adoption , being supported by 19 countries and opposed by eight , but the proposal will be discussed again at next year 's meeting after a working group has met to discuss the boundaries of the sanctuary and other details . |
| 26 | A new parish priest will be arriving here for next Sunday , whose name is Fr John Molyneux . |
| 27 | Data records held in sequential mode can be read only from first to last and all steps in any analysis run must be accomplished in a single ‘ pass ’ through the file . |
| 28 | Until recently they had believed the trial would be held sometime in next month . |
| 29 | Energy efficiency may be the quickest way to abate emissions of carbon dioxide but it is hard to imagine it being applied effectively in Third World countries , whose output of the gas is likely to overtake the developed world 's in the second or third decade of the next century . |
| 30 | Closure 's being brought forward from next March to this July . |