Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How certain are you in the first place that it 's a scentmaker ? ’ |
| 2 | Little is known of eruptions there , but there may have been one in the last decade , since sets of aerial photographs of the island taken many years apart show some slight changes . |
| 3 | Are they on the next aisle ? |
| 4 | And there were you in the next bedroom , you and Arthur . |
| 5 | When would that have been about this were they in the second division then or |
| 6 | How different were they in the seventeenth century from today ? |
| 7 | The second Adam came , however , not only to save humankind , but to take us on to the destiny that should have been ours in the first place . |
| 8 | Second team or not , however , there 's nothing like the first century . |
| 9 | You know , if there 's nothing like the last week then Did you have your tea Danny ? |
| 10 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 11 | There is nothing in the second reign to compare with the king 's exploitation of the marriage market as a means of endowing the queen 's siblings in the first reign . |
| 12 | That 's it for the first half . |
| 13 | But nobody , how long is it since the last time we showed them in ? |
| 14 | Is he in the fourth year ? |
| 15 | There was something in the last track of Sheer Event Shift about the Wizard King being crowned in a towering castle . |
| 16 | The excitement of delving into the unknown was mine for the first time that day . |
| 17 | Was it after the First World War ? |
| 18 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |
| 19 | If there was anyone in the twentieth century to resolve the dilemma , repeat the Beowulf -poet 's masterpiece of compromise , and preserve ‘ the permanent value of that pietas which treasures the memory of man 's struggles in the dark past , man fallen and not yet saved , disgraced but not dethroned ’ ( ‘ Monsters ’ , p. 266 ) , Tolkien must have thought it should be himself . |