Example sentences of "be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 2 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
| 3 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 4 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 5 | By enabling IBM Cobol/VSAM CICS applications to run on Unix systems , says Crawford , users are offered the first easy step in moving off their proprietary mainframes ; he reckons Unikix facilitates 200–600% long-term cost-of-ownership savings for a typical customer . |
| 6 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
| 7 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
| 8 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 9 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 10 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 11 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 12 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 13 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 14 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 15 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 16 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 17 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 18 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 19 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 20 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 21 | This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God . |
| 22 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | What 's the Matter Plasma Plasma 's properties are sufficiently different from those of gases , liquids and solids for it to be considered the fourth state of matter . |
| 24 | To these can be added the fourth century examples already mentioned , which clearly indicate some level of extra-mural contraction . |
| 25 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 26 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | You do not need to send your releases to everyone who might be interested if this is likely to delay getting them into the post ; that can always be done the next morning . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |