Example sentences of "the [num ord] [noun] [be] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second study is being set up by the EPA in a Georgia town which was one of a large number that volunteered to be followed while it switched to a pay-to-throw scheme . |
| 2 | The second point is is to echo the er the words that Matt just said about that lady who was converted . |
| 3 | The second point is being totally in favour of you 're selling your book . |
| 4 | A CHANCE to escape to the 19th century is being offered at a special day school in Cleveland on Saturday . |
| 5 | The matter was debated across Europe when the Eighth Directive was being drafted and the same conclusion was reached . |
| 6 | The first houses are being offered for sale at between £32,500 and £48,000 . |
| 7 | The first contacts were being made in nuclear research — even if the British were asking themselves whether nuclear co-operation would prove a step towards a postwar international police force led by Britain and the United States , or whether it would simply result in American domination of the whole project . |
| 8 | The population , though reduced to eating cats and dogs , fought back , however , so long as their ammunition lasted , with 16-pounder [ 7.3-kg ] and 24-pounder [ 11-kg ] cannon , continuous musket fire and frequent sorties and on 30 July an expedition led by General Kirke rammed the boom ; the following day , as the first stores were being unloaded , the siege was abandoned , having lasted 105 days . |
| 9 | The first rooms are being installed at Green School . |
| 10 | The first candles were being lit , and the stars were out . |
| 11 | It has a strange history and to understand it it is necessary to turn the clock back eight thousand years , to the moment when the first cats were being domesticated in the Middle East . |
| 12 | may be appreciated when we reflect that if our rulers in the nineteenth century were educated at Eton , our rulers of the twentieth century are being educated in the elementary schools . |
| 13 | Townsend 's thesis is that in four main areas , ‘ the dependency of the elderly in the twentieth century is being manufactured socially ’ . |
| 14 | The 601s Motorola intends shipping in high volume beginning in the third quarter are being made by IBM Corp , Motorola 's partner along with Apple Computer Inc in the PowerPC push . |
| 15 | The 601s Motorola intends shipping in high volume beginning in the third quarter are being made by IBM Corp , Motorola 's partner along with Apple Computer Inc in the PowerPC push . |
| 16 | ‘ Young people in the Third World are being told it 's wonderful to smoke and they do n't know the problems it 's causing . ’ |
| 17 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 18 | In short , the third task is being tackled . |
| 19 | A berserk laundromatte — the last switches are being |
| 20 | The last sentence is is the most difficult one , because of this word withstand , which of course is is very rarely used in this sense now . |
| 21 | When the sturdy Hollywood , who soldiers in the trenches with the modest St. Michael 's club in Newtownhamilton , was plucked from the ‘ extras ’ the last rites were being administered to Armagh 's championship hopes . |
| 22 | And as the last shots were being fired , the Syrian tank came to rest outside the very door of the building which housed Lebanon 's ‘ democratic ’ parliament . |
| 23 | By the 14th Serafin is being steered back across Whitehall , out of the pale sunshine , and in through the threatening corridors of the Cabinet Office towards these peaceful quarters at the rear , where rooms have already been quietly set aside for him . |
| 24 | Work on site has already begun , and the foundations , actual and metaphorical , of the Library 's development in the 21st century are being laid . |
| 25 | The next , the next question is is jealousy another powerful promoter of family black sheep . |
| 26 | The next meeting is being held at the Pentland Hills Regional Park Headquarters , Boghall Farm , Biggar Road , Edinburgh , Midlothian , on Thursday , 10 December 1992 at 7.00pm . |
| 27 | The next edition is being prepared now and will be published in early January . |
| 28 | Since they were often working on stories or novels , they would call out to each other " What are they doing now ? " , if the next chapter was being set by someone else . |