Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the five " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 2 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 3 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 5 | Assuming that the contributions are made during the five years the child is at a fee-paying school the difference in total cost works out at £43,000 at an investment return of 13 per cent , compared with £58,320 at 8.5 per cent . |
| 6 | The ailing peace process had been revived by an Australian plan for large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia , which had been approved by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in mid-January [ see pp. 37186-87 ] , who met again in New York to discuss this plan on Feb. 12-13 . |
| 7 | Pot Luck ( Flotilla ) prices are based on the five person rate . |
| 8 | They are known as the five ancestors , and it is hinted that they were the original founders of the present-day Triad secret societies . |
| 9 | The basic movements are derived from the five Chinese elements of metal , water , wood , fire and earth , each of which has the power to overcome the other . |
| 10 | Students who fail the Case Study will be accredited with the five areas of study if they have successfully passed these and should be eligible for the grade of intermediate membership . |
| 11 | These five conditions can be solved for the five π 's , giving : |
| 12 | The course is to be designed by the five times winner of the Open Championship , Peter Thomson . |
| 13 | Therefore , I am in agreement with Mr. Porter in that I believe referees from other rugby nations , such as Fiji , Australia , Argentina etc. , should be selected for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 14 | Those will all be represented by the five complete deals contracts and everything , all right ? |
| 15 | So that would be a guaranteed eighty pounds a month , and at the end of five years , we 'd assume that the P E P had actually grown enough to give him his money back , you know it 's , it 's because this , because it 's a temporary annuity , it would be lost after the five years . |
| 16 | The period has been increased from the five years prescribed by the 1959 Act . |
| 17 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 18 | Outside the National Assembly some 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones and petrol bombs clashed with riot police ; at least 40 people were injured in the five hours of running battles which followed . |
| 19 | There were five of these sites and in the tot in total nine hundred and twenty eight operations were performed over the five sites . |
| 20 | In spite of being scheduled around the five o'clock timeslot , Doctor Who has always been a fully-fledged BBC Drama Series , made by the Drama Department in the same mould as Z Cars , Adam Adamant Lives , or , more recently , Blake 's 7 and All Creatures Great and Small . |
| 21 | What many fear is that , despite negotiated settlements ’ being fashionable in other parts of the world , the US will be more than happy to leave El Salvador to Arena , freeing it to step up aid to the Nicaraguan contras and removing , once and for all , any chance of success for the peace plan being negotiated by the five Central American presidents , which has never been supported by the US . |
| 22 | Only four horses were entered for the five furlong race , and he saw Bellevin beaten by Winkfield Pride . |
| 23 | This structure is similar to the interface structure , information being retained for the five most recently recognised words . |
| 24 | Some of the least surprising election results were recorded in the five Central Asian republics . |
| 25 | This , I have argued , is evident both at the level of theoretical explanations and in the common-sense models of understanding which are deployed in the five statements I have quoted . |
| 26 | The north side is formed by the Five Sisters , four being above the qualifying 3000 feet ; on the south side , they are even more prolific , seven Munros in a line , with two more better approached from Shiel Bridge . |
| 27 | If none of the capital is withdrawn within the five years , then all the interest is tax free . |
| 28 | Transverse isotropy is assumed with the five elastic constants ( in Walpole 's terminology defined earlier ) k , l , m , n , p . |
| 29 | When the Republican leader in the Senate , Mr Robert Dole , suggested that 5% be taken from the five top recipients , he killed two birds with one shock-horror proposal : he sent a signal to the Israeli government , and he queried the sacrosanct nature of the earmarked programmes . |
| 30 | A few ‘ meanings ’ have been suggested for the five tones that have been introduced , but each tone may have many more such meanings . |