Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] six " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most pubs in the country are owned by the big six breweries , so Glennie Brewery can only sell to freehouses . |
| 2 | It 's two thousand rose plants have all been replaced over the last six years . |
| 3 | In one road , ten homes out of sixteen have been burgled in the last six months , one of them four times . |
| 4 | The only sites that have been provided in the last six years is one at Hinksey Hill , nothing else . |
| 5 | They will be laid in the Draugen oil field , off the West coast of Norway , in 1993 , while engineering work will be undertaken over the next six months . |
| 6 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |
| 7 | Various other procedures have to be gone through but it is expected that the title will be completed within the next six months . |
| 8 | It 's expected the appeal will be heard within the next six to eight weeks , until then Colin French is free on bail . |
| 9 | Despite calls by some countries , the proposals would not be introduced immediately , however , but would be considered over the next six months . |
| 10 | The programmes will be subject to review with the passage of time but no substantial additions to them will be made for the first six years ( except for changes required because of matters outside of governing body control and except for minor alterations to equipment ) . |
| 11 | I have attached a paper prepared for this which highlights many of the areas in which the EEB believes progress must be made over the next six months . |
| 12 | SGI says its Irix V.4 operating system , and the MIPS Risc/OS flavour of Unix SVR4 will be merged over the next six to eight months : it expects to have R4000MP multi-processing boxes with up to eight processors out of the door by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Inter alia , the Inland Revenue are reluctant to grant clearance where the consideration is loan stock and is redeemable within a relatively short period , and clearance is usually given only if the loan notes can not be redeemed within the first six months after issue . |
| 14 | A more detailed statement will be provided for the first six months of 1993 sometime during August . |
| 15 | The results , he said , do not reflect any benefit from the £250m Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System UK Ministry of Defence contract , nor from the £200m British Gas Plc coup , both of which will be delivered over the next six years . |
| 16 | If your employee qualifies for the higher rate , it should be paid for the first six weeks that higher rate SMP is due . |
| 17 | Last year he took part in the London race along with 27,000 others , being placed in the top six per cent at number 1,442 . |
| 18 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 19 | Just over two hundred thousand vehicles were sold in the first six months of this year , a rise of thirteen per cent on the year before . |
| 20 | But the fireworks were reserved for the last six holes , each of which he birdied . |
| 21 | Since this distribution is similar to that obtained in Study 2 these 14 categories were divided into the same six categories that were used in that study . |
| 22 | On Dec. 13 the human rights organization Amnesty International issued a report claiming that hundreds of innocent people had been killed in the previous six months and criticizing the provisions of the emergency powers decreed in early November which allowed the disposal of bodies by the security forces without a post-mortem or inquest [ see p. 37007 ] . |
| 23 | Clinical and basic science topics are covered in the first six terms . |
| 24 | The Government must be pressed to accept the British Rail view that the link is needed within the next six or seven years . |
| 25 | The programme is focused on the following six fields of research : |
| 26 | That is to say the Common Market should have been established between the original six members by 1969 . |
| 27 | ( The data given in this chapter was collected during the first six months of 1985 and employers should , therefore , bear this in mind when determining their relocation policies . ) |
| 28 | The gastric pH was measured in the same six volunteers who had participated in the gastric emptying study . |
| 29 | But most was not at such a high level , was concentrated within the last six or seven generations which ( as Peters notably argues ) was the limit of what a contemporary grandfather could tell as ‘ what my grandfather told me ’ , or ‘ what my father told me about his grandfather ’ ( Peters , 1970 ) . |
| 30 | But although Christine was exhausted after the first six weeks , Anna has brought great joy into their lives . |