Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still keep meat pies and vegetables in the freezer but only for emergencies and I 'm in the third year of the course now . |
| 2 | He continues : ‘ Pat Connolly and I were in the third Fulmar ( N1994 ) and we joined up our range of Hurricanes with some left from the second range which had returned . |
| 3 | I started going out in London and I was on the first step of the ladder . ’ |
| 4 | I I do n't think that 's a problem because we 're doing erm we 're doing two blocks of six and we 're onto the fourth of the first block now , but then the second block comes up in September and October , so it 's certainly in time for that . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 6 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 7 | Several Manchester United players likely to be involved as well and they 're into the second half of their second leg European cup tie in Turkey . |
| 8 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 9 | I think he 's thirty eight , and he 's on the first team . |
| 10 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 11 | Right er number four er the National Entertainments Conference organized by the N U S. I have since secured some money from Executive Committee to send two representatives to this Committee , and it 's in the last week of the summer holidays . |
| 12 | Gives it to us in psalm a hundred and thirty three and it 's in the last verse . |
| 13 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 14 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 15 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 16 | As Raynor ( 1969 ) noted , the first use of the term ‘ middle class ’ in Britain was probably in the early years of the nineteenth century ( Raynor quotes the Oxford English Dictionary 's date of 1812 ) , and it was during the nineteenth century that the ‘ middle class ’ developed into an identifiable and vocal , if rather vaguely defined , social collectivity . |
| 17 | Brick-making was an early industrial entrant into the Chiltern Hills , where there is no natural building stone except flint , and it was in the fifteenth century that brick works first appeared at Nettlebed , to establish a local business that lasted for five hundred years . |
| 18 | So the results for the sales strategy are remarkably similar to the results for the output strategy : the subjects were not taking the time ( the period ) into account on the first repetition — as they should have been — but there were on the second repetition . |
| 19 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 20 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |
| 21 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 22 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |
| 23 | It seems quite a while ago now , but it 's about the last thing I remember . |
| 24 | but it 's in the last brochure had the extra warmth ones , which I like |
| 25 | Aeroplanes had been seen in the county from about 1912 but it was during the First World War that they became common . |
| 26 | But it was during the next year that observers noticed that King Charles himself had become so fond of Berkeley that he was now one of the principal royal favourites , and perhaps the greatest . |
| 27 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 28 | But it was from the first emphasised that a priesthood of succession should be established through Aaron , Moses ' brother . |
| 29 | The history of this property dates way back to the 13th century , but it was in the 19th century , that a nobleman came here and , for his wife , rebuilt the castle on the 13th century ruins . |