Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I expect Sinbad feels that as I 'm in the last few months of my final year , she 'd better pack me with as much experience as possible before I get whisked away to act staff nurse in some ward . |
| 2 | For instance I have given one which is in the last ten years we have nearly one and half million more people in work than we had ten years ago . |
| 3 | On the same day that Scott was appointed architect for the new India Office , 1st January , 1859 , came the opening of the controversy which was for the next thirty months to dominate the campaign to rebuild the Foreign Office . |
| 4 | Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’ |
| 5 | Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years . |
| 6 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 7 | The children who were below the third centile for height at diagnosis ( SDS for height <-1.8 ) are of particular concern . |
| 8 | Like when she 's in the first two classes it wo n't matter so but as she 'll approach the G C S C |
| 9 | Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon . |
| 10 | At least — ’ she gave a rueful laugh ‘ — she was for the first twelve years of her life . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 12 | We were in the 1st Div … it was the first game of the new season , and we were playing the newly promoted Swansea away . |
| 13 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 15 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 16 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 17 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 18 | A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years . |
| 19 | it 's for the first three |
| 20 | Those people whose names you 've just , you 've given me their details from , could I ask you er if the next time you see them if it 's within the next few days or certainly erm if , if you could over the next day or two give them a ring just to let them know that I do intend to contact them , I 'll probably contact them within the next week or so . |
| 21 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 22 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 23 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 24 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 25 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 26 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 27 | Well it was for the next two years . |
| 28 | Again the warning is vital as it was for the last two techniques . |
| 29 | It was during the first four decades of the twentieth century that the major contours of psychoanalytic theory were first developed by Freud . |
| 30 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |