Example sentences of "[pron] be [adj] in the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His voice breaking with emotion , the 54-year-old Australian businessman said outside prison near Perth : ‘ I was innocent in the first place . |
| 2 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 3 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 4 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | In Slatkin 's RCA recording , I was conscious in the first movement of Elgar 's poignant sense of an ideal world ( or relationship ) beyond his reach . |
| 6 | DCE Application Development Tools are $150 and DCE Enhanced File Services , which are due in the fourth quarter , are $3,000 . |
| 7 | I had lost a stone in weight , which being thin in the first place I could n't afford , and looked haggard and drawn . |
| 8 | The poem is about the extinction of a season , of a day , of a fire and , overall , of a life which is apparent in the last couplet where we can see more clearly the relationship between the poet and his . |
| 9 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 10 | The multiprocessor will use the multi-chip , single board Rios 2 Power implementation which is due in the second half of the year . |
| 11 | There 's a very large amount of clothing which is new in the last twenty years , because the technology of producing leather is such that the skins can be split thinner and still retain their strength . |
| 12 | It is now clear that the misappropriation theory which was valid in the Second Circuit , but unresolved nationally , is now encompassed by s.10(b) of the SEA 1934 and Rule 10b-5 . |
| 13 | ‘ No , ’ Randi told New Scientist , ‘ they 're the ones who are stuck in the last century . |
| 14 | You were nice in the first light . |
| 15 | You were loose in the first chukka , so were you , Patrick . ’ |
| 16 | A week later , having applied for jobs with three firms , Leith heard that two of the vacancies were filled , but she was lucky in the third in that she was called for interview . |
| 17 | We are quiet in the first rounds cos we are scared of being giant-killed … but this lack of atmosphere gets to the players who rarely perform in the first rounds of the cups ? ? |
| 18 | ‘ The necessary components of love , my darling , are apparently as dark and fathomless as the reasons we 're alive in the first place . |
| 19 | We were poor in the first half and slightly better in the second . |
| 20 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 21 | We have submitted a response to the R.H.A. requesting reconsideration of the various proposals and requested that we be involved in the next stage of negotiation . |
| 22 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 23 | One 's in the first stanza and there 's two in the last one . |
| 24 | ‘ They are excellent in the last lap . ’ |
| 25 | They were successful in the first aim by concentrating on Mr Smith 's shadow budget and re-exploding the tax bombshell . |
| 26 | It thus offered a form of compensatory training for them and made no attempt to try to alter the racist structures and attitudes in the labour market by which they were disadvantaged in the first place . |
| 27 | On , on the point of representation , in fact , er , I think there have been representations made already be those authorities who felt they were disadvantaged in the first case , and so what you 've seen with , using this method of distribution , is a switch actually , of expenditure to London boroughs , London boroughs felt that they had lost , er , in the first round of S T G , but now if you look at the overall spread they and the er , Mets have gained . |
| 28 | Three other people had also said they were interested in the last few days . |
| 29 | It 's more in the second half . |
| 30 | Has not he forgotten to mention that between 1979 and 1981 investment fell sharply and that it was lower in the third quarter of 1991 than in any other quarter — 12 per cent . |