Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] a fourth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members heard funding had been given for a fourth ear , nose and throat surgeon . |
| 2 | Peter Purton , an executive member of the lesbian and gay rights campaign , said now the idea of a common age of consent had been supported for a fourth time , he hope that the leadership would finally accept the commitment and ensure it went into the manifesto . |
| 3 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 4 | Micky and the two girls were looking for a fourth person — someone having just moved out and on . |
| 5 | To this was added the promise to privatise British Coal if the Conservatives were re-elected for a fourth term . |
| 6 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 7 | So St Wilfrid the bishop and his clergy on bended knees lifted their hands again to heaven and gained the help of the Lord … who straightway bade the tide return before its usual hour , and while the pagans , on the coming of their king were preparing for a fourth battle , the sea came back and covered all the shore , so that the ship was floated and made its way into the deep . |
| 8 | Sunderland were playing against a fourth team ( whose tenure in the First Division was not in doubt ) . |
| 9 | It 's now fifteen months since the Tories were elected for a fourth term and what 've we seen since that election ? |
| 10 | They face another five years in opposition and Labour will have another inquest into why it has been rejected for a fourth time . |
| 11 | Since a Conservative government has been elected for a fourth term these developments will probably continue . |
| 12 | The centre of the circle is stabilised when it is occupied by a fourth dot . |
| 13 | Preventive action beyond the point of a child 's admission to care is seen as a fourth level of prevention . |
| 14 | The Dataflex relational database management system is written in a fourth generation language and has an IBM Corp SAA/CUA-compliant user interface , which enables users to write dBase applications . |
| 15 | Pausanias goes on to talk of stories of Theseus 's end ; irrelevantly , it seems , but it has often been thought that the subject must have been suggested by a fourth mural which he does not specify . |
| 16 | If by some mischance the Government are returned for a fourth term , I should be surprised if child benefit survives to the end of their term . |
| 17 | A mixed population of ECL cells and cells resembling P cells by the granule size was observed in patient no 5 while very heterogeneous cellular proliferation with a prominent ECL cell component was found in a fourth case ( case no 1 ) . |
| 18 | Ieremia Tabai has been President since independence and was elected for a fourth term on May 12 , 1987 , despite a constitutional prohibition on any individual serving more than three terms in the post . |