Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 2 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 3 | Schools which are already doing very well are probably not the first priority for Compact . |
| 4 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |
| 5 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 6 | A particular difference between murine class II-expressing macrophages and interdigitating dendritic cells seems to be that only the second subset is capable of triggering resting T cells , whereas the first needs primed T cells to induce immune responses . |
| 7 | She and Ethel were halfway down the next flight of stairs when they were suddenly joined by Bryce . |
| 8 | We were up early the next morning at 06.00 to go up to the station to catch the 07.19 Leighton - Euston train , which is a semi-stopper , it took an hour to get there . |
| 9 | Further , we were almost certainly the first publishing operation set up from scratch to capitalise on the new technology . |
| 10 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 11 | It is only when the fifth bar is reached that problems arise . |
| 12 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 13 | It is apparently only the second exhibition on her life and work . |
| 14 | Molly announces , holding out her glass for what is obviously not the first refill . |
| 15 | It 's not just the last day of term … it 's the last day of school … and that means lessons on the floor because the furniture 's gone . |
| 16 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 17 | And he told how he was ordered to retrieve the plans from the woman 's home early the next morning . |
| 18 | Because it 's still only the second week with me I think get the information down and we 'll do what we did last week . |
| 19 | Dave is further down the sixth floor corridor , it 's almost directly under this room |
| 20 | It is also reportedly the first Unix connectivity product built as an integrated service of the NetWare server . |
| 21 | This is also only the second version of the Magnificat to be offered as part of a set ( Münchinger 's first-rate ‘ traditional ’ version on Decca is coupled to the Christmas Oratorio on three mid-priced CDs ; ) . |
| 22 | But when you first say you 've got this problem , they 're losing votes , the media is n't necessarily the first thing that 's going to come to your mind . |
| 23 | ‘ It is n't usually the first thing I tell people about myself , although the old dollies do have their ways of claiming my attention . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 25 | ‘ Promotion and Distribution are very much the second class members of the marketing mix . ’ |
| 26 | Prior to the change in the law the relevant income tax provisions only referred to " income " ( ie there was only effectively the first limb ) and the House of Lords in Perry v Astor held that " income " following Colquhoun v Brooks [ 1889 ] 14 AC 493 , ( 1889 ) 2 TC 490 meant " any income chargeable to a tax under the British Finance Act of the year " . |
| 27 | ft was just about the last poem I wrote on my own for the next six months or so ; it is called ‘ Believing Is Seeing ’ , and it was also about a carving , the sculpture illustrating the miracle of Christ healing the blind man : |
| 28 | Almost everything about the French mood in 1945 suggests that unqualified independence was just about the last thing that anyone envisaged for any part of the French colonial empire . |
| 29 | A rising shot by Sheringham , tipped over by Chamberlain after 36 minutes , was just about the last moment of anxiety for Luton . |
| 30 | Eliot recognized that this was not simply the last poem in his sequence but also its culmination , in which the themes and textures of the preceding three parts would be gathered together in a final statement . |