Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I could have joined in except I was on the second tier of the other stand . |
| 2 | He 's dead nice , Mr Fleming , just treats you like an adult ; see once you 're in the Sixth Year , you could say Anything to him . |
| 3 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ So we 're on the second floor . ’ |
| 5 | than there was in the first place . |
| 6 | Mike has played eight games for Moseley and although they are in the Second Division we are satisfied with his form and fitness . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 8 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 9 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 10 | Can the Prime Minister really take any comfort from the fact that , bad as today 's figures are , they are slightly less bad than they were in the last Tory slump ? |
| 11 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 12 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 13 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 14 | IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world . |
| 15 | If you are at the fifth post how far have you gone from the start ? |
| 16 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 17 | If you are on the last field of an option and you press TAB , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 18 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 19 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 20 | Cos we were in the fourth year and the upper dorm grew up |
| 21 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 22 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 23 | With with the free kick , it 's midway inside his own half and Blackburn as they as they do away from home they get everybody behind the ball even if they are from the third division . |
| 24 | St it can be the s I tell you it 'll be the feathers or the stockings if it 's on the twentieth of December |
| 25 | Those people whose names you 've just , you 've given me their details from , could I ask you er if the next time you see them if it 's within the next few days or certainly erm if , if you could over the next day or two give them a ring just to let them know that I do intend to contact them , I 'll probably contact them within the next week or so . |
| 26 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 27 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 28 | Swaefheard first emerges in the circle of Oswine , witnessing Oswine 's grant to St Augustine 's in 689 and that to Abbess Aebbe in January 690 , but if he was in the second year of his reign by March 690 ( CS 42 : S 10 ) he must have succeeded before March 689 . |
| 29 | Oh yes , because we 're on the fourteenth , so it 's the week before . |
| 30 | We did n't see the ball go in because we were on the 9th tee , but we heard hell of a din behind and Tom said , ‘ Some guy must have holed out . ’ |