Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the time it takes an egg to travel from the ovary to the womb can be five to eight days , the egg itself can only be fertilised in the first 6–24 hours following ovulation . |
| 2 | In some subjects these new methods have led to so radical a change in the content of the syllabus that the effects will necessarily be felt in the sixth form and in all further and higher education . |
| 3 | The second round of voting on May 8 allocated most of the 134 seats which had not been decided in the first round [ see p. 38887 ] , and confirmed the electoral victory of supporters of President Hashemi Ali Akbar Rafsanjani . |
| 4 | Later , in the 1860s , Persigny remarked to the Emperor that the charges on the civil list were enormous — to which Napoleon III replied that had so much money not been allotted in the first place he would have been unable to fulfil all the demands which were made upon him . |
| 5 | As one villager said , perhaps the money would have been better spent ensuring it had not been dumped in the first place . |
| 6 | All too often the data the systems provide is not only technically inaccurate ( because it has not been updated in the last day\week\month ) it also no longer answers the questions that are being asked . |
| 7 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |
| 8 | The Constitution Scrutiny Committee on Nov. 13 made substantial changes to the draft constitution , which had already been passed in the first of three readings by the National Legislative Assembly ( NLA ) . |
| 9 | The economic and social problems of the second Labour government have already been outlined in the first chapter . |
| 10 | With no background in research or technology , Fabius will take his time before embarking on radical reorganisation of an area which has already been transformed in the last two years . |
| 11 | That " the living have no substance " has already been implied in the third paragraph , where the nouns eye , feet , hands , and figures are introduced as subjects of verbs which would more appropriately have human subjects such as men , servants , etc . |
| 12 | What Ho himself understood by Marxism at this stage can perhaps best be seen in the first Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary text : The Road to Revolution , published in 1926 . |
| 13 | This , of course , is a long-term aim and will not be achieved in the first season . |
| 14 | But if firms perceive that a deviation will be followed by renegotiation rather than punishment this means that punishment would never be carried out , and so agreement to collude could not be reached in the first place . |
| 15 | All the ideas expressible in the second can be reproduced in the first , but , for instance , the notions of disjunction ( v ) and implication ( 6 ) and negation ( * ) which occur in the first can not be expressed in the second . |
| 16 | Yet policy makers , planners and local government officials have a limited grasp of the historical development of nineteenth century cities and the project attempts to investigate the principal factors which governed that process , the problems it highlighted and the pitfalls which have been encountered and which need not be reproduced in the twentieth century given an awareness of a historical dimension . |
| 17 | Extractive hay or silage crops should not be taken in the first year , although the ley may be topped if necessary . |
| 18 | Reports that golf will not be included in the next Olympic Games were denied at a conference staged during a busy week . |
| 19 | The two are not being played in the First XV at the moment because they will not be available for the league matches , as they will be in Australia and Fiji with the national squad . |
| 20 | How many of these obligations could still be demanded in the seventh century , we do not know , although there are references to tax concessions granted to Tours by Dagobert I ( 623/9 — 39 ) , to the city of Bourges by Clovis II ( 634 – 57 ) , and to families exposing children in order to avoid public exactions in the Life of his queen , Balthild . |
| 21 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 22 | In 1988 the WI produced a village information sheet and it was heartening to list all the trades and professions still being practised in the 20th century in Kilham . |
| 23 | A higher income still was achieved in the first four years of Elizabeth , but the feudal revenue then fell back to between £12,000 and £14,000 per annum until 1598 , when an upward movement began once more . |
| 24 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 25 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 26 | Sebastiane ( Virgin , 18 , rental ) , with its nude centurions cavorting in the sun , is well-known ; but his homo-erotic visual poetry can also be seen in The Last of England ( Island Visual Arts , 18 , rental ) , in which a junkie skinhead roams through a land of urban detritus . |
| 27 | If a three-year course could be justified the supporting subjects would probably be covered in the first year but care would have to be taken not to put too great an emphasis on the technology . |
| 28 | I have n't looked at the details of those figures , but are there predominantly be provided in the first ten years of the structure plan . |
| 29 | After protracted behind-the-scenes debate in the statutes commission , the congress was presented on July 9 with proposals to restructure the upper echelons of the party leadership , albeit less radically than had originally been proposed in the first draft of the new party rules published in March . |
| 30 | If there is a potential claim of this sort , for example for late delivery or mishandling an order , action will often be taken in the first instance by the exchange , as guarantor of market standards . |