Example sentences of "is [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the spring clean now over , the new Government Chemist 's principal task is to spearhead the third phase of the business programme started by his predecessor Alex Williams . |
| 2 | The chief innovation is allowing the third umpire to make the first move in decision-making , which the TCCB admits could lead to : ‘ Suspension of a decision already made ’ . |
| 3 | According to Burrows , Software AG is building the next generation of distributed programs with graphical front-ends . |
| 4 | The château , together with its gardens , terraces and belvedere , recently restored by the State on the basis of eighteenth-century documents , will provide the setting for the first part of the itinerary , while a new basement building is to accommodate the second stage . |
| 5 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 6 | The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged . |
| 7 | An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January . |
| 8 | Either you consider that the County Farms are playing a role set down by law and supported over the years of an , which no other authority and no other body in the country can provide , and which is a socially valuable role , and that is to provide the first step in farming , and clearly they do . |
| 9 | The tendency within more recent authority is to pitch the second part of the hurdle at varying levels depending upon the nature of the decision-maker in question . |
| 10 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 11 | When you want to run a program ( such as WORD.COM ) , all you have to do is type the first part of the filename ( WORD ) . |
| 12 | This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988 |
| 13 | This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988 |
| 14 | THIS AGREEMENT is made the 13th day of February one thousand nine hundred and ninety in Ghent |
| 15 | THIS AGREEMENT is made the twenty-third day of November , one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine |
| 16 | THIS AGREEMENT IS made the first day of February 1989 between of ( ‘ The Publisher ’ ) and of ( ‘ The Distributor ’ ) |
| 17 | THE Ulster People 's College is to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Irish women obtaining the right to vote . |
| 18 | JOHNNY Morris , the zoo man , is to open the 68th Dolmetsch Festival in Haslemere on Friday , July 10th . |
| 19 | If each word is displayed as soon as it is recognised , the display will be changing disconcertingly whilst the user is writing the next word . |
| 20 | When this is done the last equation becomes . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea is to inspire the next generation of comedians to think of radio first and launch their careers with us , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 22 | As a Conservative I naturally want the Government to survive and to win the next election , but plainly if the Deputy Prime Minister resigns that is something which gives cause for readjustment and rethinking if the Government is to win the next election . |
| 23 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 24 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 25 | A sensible compromise is to use the first method for longer photo-stories and to add a sticky label to the photograph giving outline details and the source and to use the second method for short captions . |
| 26 | If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’ |
| 27 | Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ? |
| 28 | The Auditing Practices Board is facing the first test of its credibility . |
| 29 | After just 4 games Swindon 's John Gorman is facing the first pain barrier of the season ; 4 defeats and 14 goals conceded . |
| 30 | The new car is to mark the 30th anniversary of the MGB . |