Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bulk ’ transfer should be used the first time information of a given type is transferred , thereafter this information can be kept up to date with LIFESPAN by use of ‘ incremental ’ transfers . |
| 2 | Abbreviations , symbols , units and greek letters should be identified the first time they are used . |
| 3 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 4 | If you 've backed a couple of horses , and if you 'll be gone the next day , you stay there like everybody else and listen to the commentaries . |
| 5 | The cost was £105 , including the organist and £3 for the box for the ashes , which , I was told , could be collected the next morning . |
| 6 | But I find myself left with what may be called the first main proposition of this book : |
| 7 | My ticket would be sent the next day . |
| 8 | That the Bill shall be laid upon the Table of the House by one of the Clerks in the Private Bill Office on the next meeting of the House after the day on which the Bill has been presented and , when so laid , shall be read the first and second time ( and shall be recorded in the Journal of this House as having been so read ) and , having been amended by the Committee in the last Session , shall be ordered to lie upon the Table . |
| 9 | Note that if this keyword is used without the module 's manager having set a PREFERRED version , an error message will be displayed the next time an attempt is made to read the module out of LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | ACE is releasing Compare as a compiler toolkit next quarter — a commercial version of Prepare will be released the third quarter 1993 . |
| 11 | During the eighteenth century diplomats were less irregularly paid than had hitherto been the case and there can be seen the first efforts , though very limited and ineffective ones , to provide them with some systematic professional training . |
| 12 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |
| 13 | Sometimes an impacted basket can be delivered the next day , when the ampullary oedema subsides . |
| 14 | In general , mistakes here are small , and can be corrected the next year . |
| 15 | To these can be added the fourth century examples already mentioned , which clearly indicate some level of extra-mural contraction . |