Example sentences of "be [verb] in a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely in the history of the Cannes Film , Festival has a debutant director won the Palme d'Or ; but then , rarely has such a formidable and original talent been displayed in a first film . |
| 2 | He never supposed a bus might recur in his life , to be travelled in a second time , with a recognisable darn in its upholstery . |
| 3 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 4 | The technique required in presenting characters from these plays is usually more delicate than can be achieved in a first audition , whereas the work of Tom Stoppard , David Hare and Barry Keefe ( for example ) is more easily grasped by the young actor . |
| 5 | First , ideas are actually put into operation in the practical domain arid then the consequences are monitored in a second process of evaluation , this time directed at establishing the practical effect of the ideas as operationally realized . |
| 6 | The Detailed Spectrum Investigation 's recommendations have been combined in a first proposal for a European Table of Frequency Allocations which aims to standardise the use of frequencies across CEPT countries where possible . |
| 7 | The legal arrangements for unification were contained in a second state treaty ( the first state treaty having been that providing for economic and monetary union — see pp. 37466-67 ) . |
| 8 | This scene shows an evening meal being prepared in a 10th century Viking household . |
| 9 | If objections based on uncertainty have any validity , then that word must be being used in a third sense . |
| 10 | BLOOD-sucking leeches are being used in a last bid to save two year-old Tanya Wood 's severed finger . |
| 11 | The doctor was so used to being called in a second time to cope with the results of his first visit that eventually he dug in his heels and advised against another jab dealing with whooping-cough . |
| 12 | Run-off elections were held in a second round of voting on Feb. 16 and 23 where no candidate had obtained a simple majority in the first round . |
| 13 | You want to know what is happening in a Third World trouble-spot . |
| 14 | The Dataflex relational database management system is written in a fourth generation language and has an IBM Corp SAA/CUA-compliant user interface , which enables users to write dBase applications . |
| 15 | Actor Robert Englund is to return in a seventh Nightmare on Elm Street film next year , despite moguls vowing Freddy 's Dead : The Final Nightmare was the last . |
| 16 | On the IBM 370 range the increment value is held in a third accumulator specified by the instruction . |
| 17 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
| 18 | A report on the extent and nature of the feedback was included in a second document circulated to all schools in 1980 . |
| 19 | Later another partially ignited device was found in a second furniture shop but caused only minor damage . |
| 20 | A mixed population of ECL cells and cells resembling P cells by the granule size was observed in patient no 5 while very heterogeneous cellular proliferation with a prominent ECL cell component was found in a fourth case ( case no 1 ) . |
| 21 | It was illustrated in a 15th century manuscript , and Gerard referred to it as being useful for preserving the eyesight ; Culpeper advised its use for those " that are bit with serpents or have eat … mushrooms " . |
| 22 | Cos we 're having , not problems , but at school it really it 's unfortunate because she was put in a third year , and she 's only a third year now and she was on a third year class last year . |
| 23 | In four additional patients bleeding recurred after heater probe treatment and in one of them , with high surgical risk , successful control of haemorrhage was obtained in a second thermocoagulation session . |
| 24 | Of all the things that sprung out at me on the paper in this report that we could actually do something about was to slot in a fifth round about the five o'clock crunch time and taken them out the market but I |