Example sentences of "be [num] [conj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two right so on the bottom now we 've just got one times one which is one and on the top we 've got one times twelve times two what does that come to ? |
| 2 | Well I I was eleven but by the time but I had a birthday , you see , er in the summer and er er well August actually and so when I started at Stowmarket I was twelve , you see , and er and er I was at Stowmarket School and scholarship for four years and er well I do n't know whether I really liked school , did you ? |
| 3 | At the end of 1942 the total was 218,783 and at the end of 1943 235,501 . |
| 4 | He was twenty-eight and at the top of the profession in America , a place where he had commitments , a secure job , money coming in , young kids , a home , a life style . |
| 5 | They performed in the park if there was one and on the sand if there was not . |
| 6 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |