Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marriages might of necessity be in the first place a business agreement — an exchange of goods and services — but this did not mean that deep feelings did not enter it . |
| 2 | L and T have promised to keep to their obligations , the covenants , for the whole period of their lease — which may of course be for the next thousand years . |
| 3 | The integer declares what kind of information is on the next line , and the following lines gives a name or a numerical value . |
| 4 | Saving elephants , tigers and terms in the twentieth century will be a small gain if their habitats are ruined or destroyed along with man 's in the twenty-first . |
| 5 | The only major variation in training was during the first ten days before a new season , when players were not allowed to kick a ball . |
| 6 | The last record of the bark being used for rope-making was in the First World War , when the German army used lime bark ropes to tow their guns . |