Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [was/were] [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 | ‘ We consider training to be crucial and we are spending more on it now than we were during the last recession , ’ he said . |
| 3 | than there was in the first place . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 12 | Cos we were in the fourth year and the upper dorm grew up |
| 13 | ‘ On the brighter side , the value of our players would increase if we were in the Second Division . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 16 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 20 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 21 | Well Jennifer I think it 's er viburnum lanterna and it 's quite an interesting er bush because it was in the sixteenth century a er gave the tree its poetic name as he frequently come across it in old drove roads er over and across the old drove roads in the chalk downs of er from Winchester to Epsom and London but sorry about this it can grow to fifteen feet and in May it opens up its cluster of white flowers and it 's really quite an attractive thing but the berries I do n't think are so attractive so I think erm |
| 22 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 23 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 24 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 25 | University life had developed many of the traits Gedge first revealed while he was in the sixth form . |
| 26 | I had n't had Hilary since he was in the second year . ’ |
| 27 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 28 | I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school , and we were together for six years . |
| 29 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |
| 30 | When I was in the fourth year at school we had to do orals as part of our English GCSE examination . |