Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 2 | By the mid-seventeenth century it had become normal for the wealth of the old people to be transferred to the next generation when they retired , perhaps in their sixties , but for the retired couple to retain houseroom in the family home ; and in order to make disputes less likely , these retirement arrangements were increasingly recorded in deeds . |
| 3 | The shop is to be extended into the next door house , 19 Main Street , after Sedgefield district councillors approved the plan . |
| 4 | In December 1924 a press release stated that Her Majesty the Queen had graciously given permission for the house to be exhibited at the ninth Ideal Home Exhibition to be held by the Daily Mail at Olympia the following March . |
| 5 | ‘ It is riveting stuff , especially to be treated to the first performance of a production that has attracted such rave reviews . |
| 6 | His proof of evidence , which is due to be heard within the next fortnight is , it transpires , being translated . |
| 7 | A decree issued on Sept. 16 stated that the profits of all wholly Omani-owned companies were to be taxed for the first time from the end of 1989 . |
| 8 | But if the terminal repeats explain how wandering members of the Alu family might get into a chromosome , what can explain how they came to be wandering in the first place ? |
| 9 | Frank Thompson , the father of Anthony , is masterminding the fund-raising activities to be arranged over the next year and is open to suggestions and , of course , contributions , from any source . |
| 10 | We have had two training sessions , and five candidates are to be examined on the 28th October 1992 . |
| 11 | Northumberland is to be examined in the fifth stage . |
| 12 | In one of the meditations on the Passion to be examined in the last part of the chapter Rolle vividly explores the nature of such a loss . |
| 13 | The relations of the European States continued to be influenced in the eighteenth century , almost as much as in the age of Louis XIV , by the idea of the balance of power . |
| 14 | Even if an intervention is successful in solving a discrete problem like this , the whole process can not be counted as a success if every step has to be repeated for the next discrete problem . |
| 15 | The ‘ Act ’ allows pregnancy to be terminated before the 28th week and has helped many women avoid inevitable problems . |
| 16 | But it wo n't work unless your employees want to be empowered in the first place |
| 17 | The post of Vice Chairman was left to be decided at the next Committee meeting . |
| 18 | Other neurons conduct impulses from the spinal cord to muscles and cause them to contract ; so the pain relayed by the first neurons might cause a limb to be moved by the second set of neurons . |
| 19 | Incredibly , the government take £3.50 through VAT from the production of each medal , or roughly twice what the charities get , even though it is due to their cruel neglect that the medals have to be struck in the first place . |
| 20 | The first hole in one ever to be recorded at the fourth gave Jeff Sluman the early momentum and his 65 caught Lanny Wadkins , who has now been under par in seven consecutive rounds at Augusta . |
| 21 | Conference papers can be notoriously esoteric and dull as a collection and I would not claim to be gripped from the first page to the last . |
| 22 | It was to be mounted by the Eighth Army , commanded by General Cunningham , and the main objectives were to relieve the garrison of Tobruk and to secure advance airfields from which the convoys to Malta could be protected . |
| 23 | In the rather broader context of a graduated test scheme , evidence of mastery would be needed so that ( i ) a pupil 's achievements could be informatively reported ( e.g. for certification ) , and ( ii ) to indicate readiness for further learning to be undertaken at the next level of a scheme . |
| 24 | The question of the truth of the Christian picture of the world has increasingly come to be raised during the last two hundred years . |
| 25 | Banks ' long-term prime-lending rate is about to be raised for the second month in a row , to 5.4% ( up from 4.9% two months ago ) , which will trigger a similar increase in mortgage rates . |
| 26 | The immediate post-war period again provided the optimism that had existed in 1920 , and the farm worker appeared to be poised for the first time to achieve equality of pay and status with workers in other industries . |
| 27 | Although the outlook may seem bleak , a constructive approach towards consultation might result in hitherto unconsidered options coming to light which could enable your job to be saved at the eleventh hour . |
| 28 | There is , however , a more fundamental reason why an attempt to perceive a structure within a given set of phenomena may fail ; it may be that there actually is no structure there to be perceived in the first place . |
| 29 | It expresses particular concern about the fact that 10 per cent of England 's salty lagoons are projected to be lost over the next 20 years : " Their rarity , both in England and on a European scale , is such that their conservation is of the highest importance . " |
| 30 | Indeed , apparently traditional flail-threshing barns continued to be built throughout the nineteenth century because of their ability to house the threshing machine as well as the crops . |