Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The problem with many of our politicians is that they are biased towards the second . |
| 32 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 33 | Candidates are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students . |
| 34 | Applicants are registered in the first instance as supervised postgraduate students ; this initial period will count towards the minimum period of study for the degree . |
| 35 | He himself says in his 2nd Edition of the Perambulation of Kent , which he revised whilst living here , " At this place of the Bishop in Halling I am drawing on the last scene of my life , where God has given me Liberorum Ouadrigam , all the fruit that I ever had " . |
| 36 | Some nationwide systems of Bolshevik political control are examined in the next chapter , whereas here more neutral communications networks are studied . |
| 37 | Its effect was particularly damaging in relation to the recurrent tragedies of death in childhood , which are examined in the next chapter . |
| 38 | The consequences Of this requirement are examined in the next chapter . |
| 39 | Dictating condolences to the mother of a murdered husband whom you 've been cuckolding for the last three years would take more than his limited social vocabulary . |
| 40 | A 7 day tour to Poland , open to CIT members , spouses , and colleagues has been arranged for the first week of July , boasting a programme , both transport orientated and cultural . |
| 41 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 42 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 43 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 44 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 45 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 46 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 47 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 48 | With the increasing array of modern pharmaceuticals which have been developed in the last forty years or so , the concept of treatment with opposites has once more dwarfed the concept of treatment with similars which has never been accepted by the medical establishment . |
| 49 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 50 | A new Communication and Information Thesaurus has been developed from the second edition of Unesco 's Mass Communication Thesaurus . |
| 51 | Similar thought has been given to the next run of ‘ Sir Lamiel ’ scheduled for Friday , March 12th . |
| 52 | On the second visit Mr. Burgess was given instructions different from those he had been given on the first visit . |
| 53 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 54 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 55 | The negotiations were extremely complex and detailed and the whole issue has been referred to the next stage of IBOA/Bank procedures which is an Independent Tribunal . |
| 56 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 57 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
| 58 | Whether the bloom shape is the ultimate , only time will tell , for there have been other occasions in the development of the rose when a new type has been regarded as the last word . |
| 59 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 60 | You 've all got friends and relations in er other jobs and they 've all been struggling for the last two or three years have n't they ? |