Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] was [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | than there was in the first place . |
| 4 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 13 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 14 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 15 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 16 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 17 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 18 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 19 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
| 20 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 21 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 22 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 23 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 24 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |
| 25 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 26 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 27 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 28 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 29 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 30 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |