Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pers pn] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No time like the present and anyway it is the first day of Lent . ’ |
| 2 | At that time , it stood a little way out of the village of Wellingham , surrounded by fields , but the village had caught up with it and now it was the last house in the high street , painted white , double-fronted with an imposing pillared porch and pedimented doorway ; Its big black front door was decorated with a lion 's head knocker and a brass letter-box . |
| 3 | Well , every now and then it 's the second date , but generally it 's the first . |
| 4 | In fact my own wife , she came of a big family and and she had to look after most of the the younger children until they started work you see and then it was the next one that had to look after them again you see and so on , and that 's how it went on . |
| 5 | And yet it was the second National Government , not the first , which really determined the politics of the 1930s . |
| 6 | Admittedly in one or two cases the inference is fairly marginal but nevertheless it 's the first time all the numbers have been positive . |
| 7 | Now admittedly it 's an increase of two thousand out of about half a million so one is n't sort of er er getting over excited about it but nevertheless it 's the first upward number which we 've had . |
| 8 | Well , every now and then it 's the second date , but generally it 's the first . |
| 9 | But then you were the first one to say to me when we took him out , oh what do you think ? |