Example sentences of "be [verb] [to-vb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a bargain has been struck the TOPIC ( " Teletext Output of Price Information on Computer " ) price displays are altered to show the last trades made . |
| 2 | Members of the Department of Social Anthropology and the Audio-Visual Aids Unit Cambridge are collaborating to make the first experimental videodisc at Cambridge University . |
| 3 | The two finishing holes are designed to test the last reserves of the golfer 's confidence . |
| 4 | It continues to chalk up record trade surpluses , but the first three months of 1992 are expected to show the second consecutive quarterly fall in gross domestic product , confirming that the Land of the Rising Sun is officially in recession . |
| 5 | The apexes are connected to form a second grid . |
| 6 | You 're going to take the second right , just after that pub . ’ |
| 7 | You 're going to spend the next few months hanging over them with your heart thumping in case they 've stopped breathing and the next few years after that stopping them committing suicide because a perfectly ordinary house has turned into a minefield of electricity and stairs and windows and boiling kettles . |
| 8 | THIS IS the day for signing in and checking out fellow schmoozers ; for ploughing through the completely bewildering gig schedule , and trying to work out just how we 're going to survive the next 100 hours without losing any important internal organs . |
| 9 | The company has also been commissioned to undertake the first quadrennial inspection of HM Customs and Excise 's portfolio of historic buildings both in Scotland and the north of England . |
| 10 | By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year . |
| 11 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 12 | To reduce the number of hours of our training it has been agreed to offer the next course over four terms only . |
| 13 | Significantly , while Philips have been hurrying to launch the first full size CD-I players , Sony — notionally , Philips ' CD-I partners — have made no announcements about CD-I plans other than to show the palmtop device and to speak obliquely about other announcements to follow . |
| 14 | Cytoplasmic incompatibility bacteria have been shown to disrupt the first mitotic divisions in fertilized eggs of incompatible crosses in Nasonia , Drosophila simulans and Culex pipiens . |
| 15 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 16 | We are beginning to plan the next stage of development with a target of 6500 campus-based students by the year 2000 . |
| 17 | General Wiseman was retiring and a High Council had been called to elect the next General . |
| 18 | Around 20 industry chiefs , including David Sainsbury , chairman of J Sainsbury , and John Towers , managing director of Rover , have been summoned to attend the first of a series of ‘ round table ’ meetings on May 25th . |
| 19 | Goodall had been invited to referee the First Division game between Tarbes and Brive . |
| 20 | A total of 18 teams have been invited to form the Second Division , but none are existing members of the Anglo Two Counties Championship . |
| 21 | Having er , been invited to attend the first ever in County Council Hearing I 'm delighted with it 's as well received as it 's had and I would just like to clarify point C which is after the relative sort of consultation with local members and the whole review of meeting er , who will be present at the review meeting ? |
| 22 | The staff development workshops run by the Scottish Further Education Unit have now been updated to include the second phase of general SVQs . |
| 23 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 24 | ‘ Rescuers are having to walk the last two or three miles carrying all their equipment . ’ |
| 25 | There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off . |
| 26 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 27 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 28 | Prost could be said to represent the next generation of drivers and Niki the past . |
| 29 | Later , under Roman occupation , they maintained with unbreakable courage their strict monotheism ; so much so that the Roman governor did not even dare to bring his standards into Jerusalem lest the medallions on them depicting the emperor should be thought to infringe the Second Commandment . |
| 30 | Cool Ground , set to carry top-weight of 12st , would be attempting to become the first since Burrough Hill Lad in 1984 to win the Cheltenham Gold Cup and Hennessy in the same year . |