Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 2 | He 's dead nice , Mr Fleming , just treats you like an adult ; see once you 're in the Sixth Year , you could say Anything to him . |
| 3 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ So we 're on the second floor . ’ |
| 5 | G. R. Hibbard argued in 1956 that there was in the seventeenth century a tradition of country house poems written by Jonson , Herrick , Carew , and Marvell . |
| 6 | than there was in the first place . |
| 7 | Mike has played eight games for Moseley and although they are in the Second Division we are satisfied with his form and fitness . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 10 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | The Bioscope very much approved of the description of the movies as ‘ the drama of the masses , and went on to argue that the whole beauty of the movies was that they were for the first time providing amusement , ‘ the greatest factor in the life of.the masses ’ , to ‘ the millions ‘ who had been ‘ passed over for so many years and considered of no account ’ . |
| 13 | Warm things are said in the flush of the campaign but now that it 's over the first question the Tories should ask is how it would look to the country if a victorious party launched into a frontal assault on the BBC in the wake of its victory . |
| 14 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 15 | Does my hon. Friend agree that , at 3.7 per cent. , the rate of inflation is half the lowest level that it was under the last Labour Government ? |
| 16 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 17 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 18 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 19 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 20 | We still keep meat pies and vegetables in the freezer but only for emergencies and I 'm in the third year of the course now . |
| 21 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 22 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 23 | IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world . |
| 24 | If you are at the fifth post how far have you gone from the start ? |
| 25 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 26 | If you are on the last field of an option and you press TAB , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 27 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 28 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 29 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |