Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of surgical patients walking around with only one lung , and some of them are down to a third of normal lung area . |
| 2 | You are welcome to call me at home on if you want to discuss this , but note that I am away between the 3rd-19th April . |
| 3 | I 'm just in the next room . |
| 4 | And I 'm only onto the fourth 'un . |
| 5 | Marion ? and I was n't in the last week so I doubt whether |
| 6 | Bet you never even noticed I was there for the first three years . " |
| 7 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 8 | They reach the further boundaries of the solid in a time which is probably between a ten-thousandth and a hundred-thousandth of a second and are reflected back , as a kind of echo , very little attenuated or diminished in intensity . |
| 9 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 10 | But they used the Fleet Canteen which was there in the first war . |
| 11 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 13 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 14 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 15 | Inevitably , months later , some actor will hiss , ‘ Heard you were in for the first half the other night , ’ prompting instant fabrication of husband having a miscarriage and mad cow disease in row F ) . |
| 16 | OK , she is n't quite in the Chrissie Goulandris league ( £290 million ) , but we reckon she 's probably around the 133rd richest woman in the country — just pipping Old Ma Thatcher with her £9.5 million . |
| 17 | She 's not worth a second thought . |
| 18 | I 'll have a word with her when she 's awake , she 's still on a third dream I should think at the moment but she 's er , certainly good talking , I could , I could try and get her without her knowing about it and see what happens , just dinner time I 'll take it down and try it , oh you 're gon na take it round Steve 's ai n't you ? |
| 19 | Jack seemed to realise she was there for the first time . |
| 20 | She was almost at the first port of call — one of Luke 's list . |
| 21 | She liked Min and Jo and so she walked past the newsagents smiling , without noticing until she was almost at the next newsagents , which ran out of her newspaper by ten in the morning . |
| 22 | As I lie here under the green , seaweedy tent I remember from some trite television interview , a remark made by Brigitte Bardot , loopy Parisienne , namely that in all her many love affairs she was off at the first sign of the waning of passion . |
| 23 | The threat was sufficient to alarm the king 's sister Adela , and she warned the king , who was now in the last stages of planning his final great attack on his brother 's duchy of Normandy . |
| 24 | You might get the occasional guest who notices a camera in the foyer or speaker in the restaurant but we are nearly into the twenty-first century and high tech equipment does not have to be offensive . |
| 25 | ‘ We are probably in the last days of this authority and we want to make sure our schemes and aspirations come to fruition . ’ |
| 26 | We are back with the ninth century as a historiographical battleground : " It was the best of times , it was the worst of times … " |
| 27 | We are now in a second slump , which will continue for a long time yet , and unemployment is rising . |
| 28 | And Schlegel in turn is followed by the Three Pieces Op. 29 by Jan Brandt Buys ( 1868–1933 ) , whose abrupt , rather Janáčekian turns reveal that we are now in the Twentieth Century , if only just . |
| 29 | We are now in the second division of world football and world cricket . |
| 30 | We are now in the third year of recession |