Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strachan 's quick thinking at a free kick caused confusion , and Speed was there to head the first . |
| 2 | Nizan was clearly showing the first signs of a defensive strategy that he would deploy to great effect throughout the remainder of his life . |
| 3 | The steering group are currently writing the first draft of these standards of performance . |
| 4 | And so , you know , on the business desk you might have three teams and the first team is only doing the first page and the opinion and the second team is doing a large amount of financial news and the third team is doing the company news , and then the erm there 's a graphics person who 's working on charts and stuff . |
| 5 | British Telecommunications Plc is now implementing the first Metropolitan Area Network in the UK . |
| 6 | Nobody witnessed Georgina 's fall and her body was only discovered the next morning . |
| 7 | By the mid 1950s the OCU was also training the first of the foreign aircrew whose governments had bought various marks of Canberras . |
| 8 | Question again proposed , That the Bill be now read the Third time . |
| 9 | I beg to move , That the Bill be now read the Third time . |
| 10 | A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute . |
| 11 | Nearly £35,000 in cash and £450,000 in cheques is believed to have been stolen from the administrator 's home following the first show on Saturday . |
| 12 | CAC sees itself as part of the community of East Manchester and this is borne out by the fact that the company is now employing the third generation of workers from local families . |
| 13 | Pamela was just completing the fourteenth of the 15 lengths of backstroke she did every morning before breakfast when she realised she was n't alone . |
| 14 | The principle of conservation of energy is sometimes called the First Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 15 | But the sheaf was always cut The last sheaf was cut then it was er put in the barn and kept there for the year and |