Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to be hoped that it is properly tackled in the next Budget . |
| 2 | It is to be hoped that it is properly tackled in the next Budget . |
| 3 | Low octane petrol is readily available almost everywhere , while paraffin is widely used in the third world . |
| 4 | Conflict of interest is rarely emphasised in the eighteenth century , however , and there can be little doubt that many customs officers held their posts for sound business reasons which had little to do with the remuneration offered by the crown . |
| 5 | The fire is slowly spreading from the 3rd floor in both directions . |
| 6 | It is intimately linked to the second substage , pastoralism , which , Marx believed , following the accepted view of the time — itself much influenced by Biblical sources — always preceded agriculture . |
| 7 | But then it is all explained in the last paragraph , where Sir Kingsley gives his highest praise to Clive James , for heaven 's sake . |
| 8 | Effect is wrongly used in the first sentence of the passage . |
| 9 | The Blackpool Tramway is rightly claimed as the first and last street tramway and unique in many other ways . |
| 10 | Not only the peerage but many of the more prosperous country squires in the eighteenth century came to maintain houses in their local market towns , to serve both the needs of trade and of society ; as Joseph Seagrave remarked in 1804 , ‘ the domestic building in every part of the kingdom , is greatly improved within the last forty or fifty years ; but in few places more than Chichester ’ . |
| 11 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 12 | She erm if , in a sense she 's already fixed onto the next generation has n't she ? |
| 13 | Here the discourse proceeds through a repeated grammatical structure ( to X and not to Y the/for Z ) into which different words are slotted , creating a rhythm which is finally broken in the last phrase in a way which may seem to imitate the sense of relief and reward the prayer concerns . |
| 14 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 15 | This is generally observed at the first meeting and to a somewhat lesser extent at subsequent meetings . |
| 16 | The German naturalist Ernst Heinrich Haeckel ( 1834–1919 ) is generally regarded as the first to put forward the idea that these changes in the embryo retrace our evolutionary history . |
| 17 | The effect is generally noted in the first week when a gradual reduction in the frequency of wetting is noted . |
| 18 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 19 | The exemption is generally attributed to the seventeenth century writings of Sir Matthew Hale , and whilst this is in some measure correct , it is best understood in the context of the evolution of the law of rape as a whole . |
| 20 | Each time one hip thrusts forwards , the other draws back by an equal amount and is thus cocked for the next punch . |
| 21 | In Mark and Luke , the betrayer is not named at the Last Supper itself . |
| 22 | If another launch attempt is not made in the next ten days , then it could face cancellation . |
| 23 | In contrast , it is not said by the third defendant or by anyone else that the third party was guilty of any form of dishonesty . |
| 24 | If the diagnosis of pyloric stenosis is not confirmed at the first test feed the examination can be repeated or imaging performed . |
| 25 | At the same time also advise him or her that if a cash payment or a banker 's draft is not received within the next five days legal action will be the only alternative . |
| 26 | Where further notification is not given on the fourth day in accordance with the procedures laid down for the second stage , you shall not be disentitled to SSP from the fourth day of absence for that reason only . |
| 27 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 28 | The weather forecast is good and rain is not expected for the next few days . |
| 29 | If your letter is not delivered on the first working day after your posted it — as long as you posted it in time to get there — then we automatically refund your fee . |
| 30 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |