Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 2 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 3 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 4 | The aircraft was on the second leg of a trans-Atlantic flight from Europe to Canada via Iceland , with two pilots and five passengers on board . |
| 5 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 6 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 7 | Leeming was on the second floor , a police officer on guard outside his room . |
| 8 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 9 | ‘ The first away game I went to was Northampton in the mid-Sixties when Burnley were in the First Division . |
| 10 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 11 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 12 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 13 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 14 | Russia was in the last resort not prepared to fight and the crisis fizzled out ; no one paid any attention to the Turkish contention that Ferdinand 's title was illegal . |
| 15 | The support Peter de Montfort gave Earl Simon was of the first importance . |
| 16 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 17 | But Noble was in the last week of his life , and proved too ill to see his favourite pupil or to hear read the letter of sympathy and comfort which Edward had sent him . |
| 18 | The silk was of the first order , better than one could obtain nowadays , and had kept in good condition over the years . |
| 19 | My second lunch place was on the fifth floor of a house in the same road as the school , the Via Farini . |
| 20 | It is vital never to grant them absolute rights over nomenclature , or you will end up with a child called Aspirin Muesli Harris as poor Tom was for the first week of his life , until it was overruled as being pagan by the Irish Catholic nurse . |
| 21 | The greatest creative period was between the thirteenth century and the seventeenth . |
| 22 | Poldhu Cove was around the next corner . |
| 23 | If the routine of a nap got well established now , then it would be easier to keep it in place later on , when Faye was in the second trimester and feeling deceptively fit and healthy as women usually did in those middle months … |
| 24 | His most significant appearance was at the second day of the Putney debates , where he was the only civilian present besides the legally trained and dialectically more skilled ( Sir ) John Wildman [ q.v . ] . |
| 25 | Johnston 's last Premier League appearance was in the first week of October . |
| 26 | Trembling and a little afraid , she gently struggled , vaguely aware that her husband was in the next room . |
| 27 | The room was on the second floor of the three-storey building , its curtains drawn , its inhabitants hidden from those below . |
| 28 | Duncan 's room was on the seventh floor . |
| 29 | Clive Barnes 's room was on the first floor , overlooking the churchyard . |
| 30 | Her room was on the first floor , at the back , opposite the top of the kitchen stairs . |