Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I 'm the first woman who has asked for their vote . ’
2 Erm twenty second of July nineteen sixteen so I 'm a first war baby .
3 If the murderer was not from Godstowe , and any normal outsider would have been noticed , perhaps there 's a third possibility ? ’
4 And so there was a second lot of market research commissioned from a different organisation , and they came up with an even better picture !
5 Yeah , so there was a second hand uniform sale , so I thought great .
6 So he was the first person who united the states of Castille and Leon , and the first who was called King of Castille ; for till this time the lords of that country had been called Counts .
7 Ah so it 's the first person who spells sex maniac
8 So it 's the fourth year now is it ?
9 So it 's the fourth time then ?
10 We 're , working on an hotel project I think and we 're up to week thirteen on the programme and I think you might be able to see on week thirteen and given the information we 've got at the moment as well , it means we 're gon na be working on three floors at once so it was the first thing to identify .
11 It 's all centered around tens and tenths , hundreds and hundredths , right , so what 's the first fraction that you put here then ?
12 we 'll show you now how to put on a pressure bandage for severe bleeding and then we 'll put the film on and you can see the whole lot again , okay , so just be in the room if you just push and push and push on the window and er the hand has gone through the window , right , and there 's no glass imbedded but it 's cut right across the palm and the reason that we show you this one is because the artery that feeds all these fingers comes and the thumb comes up in an arch like that okay , so the artery comes down , up in an arch across the palm of the hand , so the fingers and thumb all get a blood supply , so when you cut the palm of your hand there is a lot of blood pumping out , okay , so what 's the first thing I 'd tell her to do ?
13 So what is the first stage ?
14 So what is the next step towards reducing nuclear danger ?
15 ‘ There is some doubt over who was the first person in the world to swim the back crawl , but arguably it was actress Rita Tushingham 's uncle Thomas , who also swam for the Garston club , ’ he explains .
16 Finally there is a fifth meaning , which possibly has some evolutionary connection with the fourth meaning , and it is used for the instinctive affection of parents for the offspring .
17 And finally there is a third class of customer who knows that a brief telephone conversation with a skilled Matroc engineer and the subsequent follow-up are more effective than 50 pages of technical data — such customers are our life blood — as we are theirs .
18 For them we offer … ’ / ‘ And finally there is a third class of customer … .
19 Obtaining office copy entries ( as opposed to furnishing merely a copy of the registered title ) is advisable as it reveals at an early stage whether or not there is a second charge which may not have been disclosed to the husband 's solicitors .
20 Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive .
21 I said downwards , I says normally it 's the last channel backwards .
22 No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’
23 Anyway it 's the first time since the Revie years that we 've won 5 on the trot in the league so lets just be happy for a while .
24 He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort .
25 Now I 'm the fifth victim in Test cricket .
26 Now , now you 're the first person who 's said you used ill ill illegal drugs , I yes ?
27 Now who 's the next man ?
28 Now she 's the first patient being treated at the hospital 's new dermatology building .
29 At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box .
30 This , I discovered , is common in lung cancer ; in fact , quite often it is the first symptom to show itself — well before any pain or cough develops .
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