Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] in the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 For studies of ICJ transit , with this method , a value of 1 indicated that all the isotope was in the first 4 cm of ileum ; a value of 6 indicated that all isotope was in the caecum or colon .
2 His bid for the throne was in the first instance an aspect of Merovingian family politics .
3 The King was in the second room .
4 Even as Andrew was assuring journalists at Sunninghill that he was hopeful he and Fergie could get back together , the Texan was in the next room , phoning around Fleet Street .
5 Hence for a trigram window , the final score assigned to each word will be the summation of three recognition scores : the score assigned when the word was in the first position of the window , the score assigned when the word was in the middle of the window and the score when it was the final element of the window .
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