Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alternative is to build a second tree consisting of the words in the compounds , i.e. a ‘ compound tree ’ . |
| 2 | Sally Lescher 's Conservation Management is giving a first exhibition in London to Glaswegian portraitist , John Boyd ( to 24 July ) , whose thickly brushed nude studies and landscapes have won admiration in Scotland . |
| 3 | THE NATIONAL Railway Museum is offering a last chance to visitors to see the locomotive Green Arrow ‘ in steam ’ before her certificate expires . |
| 4 | Quietwaters is slightly different from the other developments : there was already a course and clubhouse in place , but the plan was to develop a second course as well as the seemingly obligatory hotel and leisure complex and timeshare units . |
| 5 | Athelstan and Cranston looked at each other despondently as they left the church and reentered the priest 's house where the boy was lapping a second bowl of soup as hungrily as a starving dog . |
| 6 | So Dr Palcic and his team are developing a second test to help decide who might benefit from their first test — they are trying to determine whether a patient might have signs of lung cancer by looking at cells coughed up in his sputum . |
| 7 | On the circle is placed a second circle with a small window , the size of a picture . |
| 8 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 9 | Now this means that the sponsor of the bill , Allan , brothers , pro proposes that the debate be closed and the bill be given a second reading . |
| 10 | Once a Bill is read a first time , it can be printed and is usually available the next day . |
| 11 | Mr. Brian Wilson ( Cunninghame , North ) : I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 12 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time |
| 13 | Question put , That the clause be read a Second time : |
| 14 | I beg to move , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 15 | The Question is , That the clause be read a Second time . |
| 16 | In opposing a Bill , however , the opposition ( occasionally it may be a dissident member of the government party ) will move an amendment not to the text of the Bill , but to the motion that the Bill be read a second time ( the motion before the House ) . |
| 17 | The usual one is an amendment to the effect ‘ that the Bill be read a second time upon this day six months ’ hence' when , historically , the session would have ended and the Bill thus have lapsed . |
| 18 | A Member simply gives notice and eventually moves that the Bill be read a first time . |
| 19 | Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay , whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds . |
| 20 | The Bill was given a Third Reading on 20th July and became law on 14th August , 1855 , with the short title , The Downing Street Public Offices Extension Act 1855 , but it was not until the following March that the Office of Works circulated the necessary notices to the tenants of property to be acquired . |
| 21 | The Bill was given a Third Reading in the House of Lords on 26 October 1965 by 169 votes to 75 . |
| 22 | Read the first time on 12 February 1844 , his creditors and debtors bill was read a second time on 30 April . |
| 23 | Where the principle object of a Bill was money , it was formerly the practice for it to be made the subject of a debate in the Commons upon a resolution before the Bill was read a first time . |
| 24 | He said the secret was to hide a second box . |
| 25 | Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the success of three previous seminars Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is holding a fourth talk shop on trading with the former East Germany . |
| 27 | A more practical method of transporting the unit up the line is to utilise a second kiteline . |
| 28 | The old city was abandoned a second time , given over to romantics , theorists , transients and dogs . |
| 29 | Ray 's next trick is to add a fourth kite round an ankle . |
| 30 | The Royal Shakespeare Company is paying a first visit to Durham City but not to tread the boards . |