Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the urban working class was concerned they may well have been better off in the fifteenth century than they had been previously or were to be later . |
| 2 | It is tinged sometimes with a blinkered nostalgia , a belief that there really was a Golden Age in the countryside when humans and nature were in harmony ; at others with an ugly neo-colonialism , a conviction that wilderness are all right for the Third World , but not for us civilised folk . |
| 3 | ( Looks like the FA Cup schedules to me , but what would I know , I 'm a Villa fan — we 're always out after the first round ! ) |
| 4 | And then you 're straight on to the next job . |
| 5 | Versions for Italy and the Benelux countries are expected to be ready later in the second quarter and a Spanish version in the last half of 1993 , the company said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm usually away by the second try . |
| 8 | At the same meeting , he said that Novell expects its fourth quarter international revenues to be about even with the third quarter , adding ‘ Europe continues to look spotty . ’ |
| 9 | The earliest surviving portraits are almost exclusively of the first century BC . |
| 10 | Some twenty years later , Comden and Green were also behind On the Twentieth Century ( ) , whose book is not really in the same class as Wonderful Town , but which is quite magnificently preposterous . |
| 11 | Rovers were ahead again in the 104th minute when Livingstone put Sherwood in on the byline and when he pulled the ball back £1.2 million Newell could not miss . |
| 12 | The reason being that probably for the last 50 years the sewers have been provided free : they have outlived any associated loans and so no charge has been made to the revenue accounts . |
| 13 | These remarks , as they stand , are sweeping generalisations based upon the narrowest of samples ; nevertheless we know with the wisdom of hindsight that the trends in question were definitely there in the 19th century and would become even more obvious in the 20th — that families would be smaller , and that the survival rate would improve dramatically . |
| 14 | It 's only really in the last two general elections that we have begun to bring fun and excitement into campaigns , to raise people 's enthusiasm to the point where they can let down their reserve a little bit . |
| 15 | It 's all right for the first years now cos they 're never even gon na know about it . |
| 16 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 17 | Pre-construction work is already underway on the first phase , a 328,000 sq ft building set on a 20 acre green field site within Edinburgh Park , due for completion in Autumn 1995 . |
| 18 | It has a B-type spectrum , and is usually just below the fourth magnitude . |
| 19 | That 's unusual is n't it , because I always think , I mean I , this is really only about the second watch I 've ever had good one . |
| 20 | Recording is now underway for the tenth series of ’ Blockbusters ’ , and although the contestants are teenagers , the show is popular across all age groups . |
| 21 | Fund-raising is now underway for the next stage of development , a large entrance hall , lecture/video theatre and shop/catering area . |
| 22 | This is particularly so in the last dance , when the Bride and Groom are watched by all as they solemnly walk together through the doorway into their room . |
| 23 | Now aged 31 , Cardus is no longer in the first flush of youth . |
| 24 | Today , the exterior of S. Sophia is very much like the eighteenth century model in the cathedral ( 239 ) . |
| 25 | Even with more time lost , it was all over before the last hour . |
| 26 | It was all over in the 10th . |
| 27 | It was perhaps only in the last ten years that Broadstairs had fully come to realise what treasure trove lay buried in its midst , and plaques began enthusiastically to sprout everywhere . |
| 28 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 29 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 30 | I was hardly out of the first team squad last season but was substitute just once . ’ |