Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they are searching for the fourth sister Pamela , who walked out at the age of 15 after a row with her father . |
| 2 | The problem with many of our politicians is that they are biased towards the second . |
| 3 | But whether they are sent to the third world or torn into rags or |
| 4 | They are seen as the last defence of standards . |
| 5 | They are seen as the last surviving areas of untouched wildlife . |
| 6 | Many see their condition as a sign that the realms of men are about to collapse , that they are living in the last days of a dying world . |
| 7 | Keith does not understand why they are going into the next room . |
| 8 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 9 | But is n't the NI always telling us to distrust the authoritative views of experts , especially when they are pontificating about the Third World ? |
| 10 | Home and childrearing commitments dictate the terms and conditions on which women can work so that overwhelmingly at present they are forced into the third leaf of the shamrock as low-paid semiskilled part-timers . |
| 11 | They are discussed in the next chapter . |
| 12 | They are coming from the second and third generations of families who have migrated to this country , families who have encouraged their children to enter the professions and vocations as lawyers , doctors , nurses and local government officers and to retain their competence in their own language . |
| 13 | They 're based for the next few weeks at RAF Lyneham , which is proud to be playing host to one of the most spectacular display teams in the world . |
| 14 | They 're investing in the first half in that second half . |
| 15 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 16 | And although it will grea , greatly help some women , unfortunately some women are unable to tolerate it , the side effects it gi , it gives them are worse than the actually symptoms they 're having in the first place . |
| 17 | they 're advertising for the first time or the last ad |
| 18 | there 's hundreds of French , Germans they 're waiting until the first of July and they 'll be in this country in a flash . |
| 19 | ‘ Farmer Dawes said it might take them a few days to settle down but they were laying on the second day . ’ |
| 20 | Just as they were puzzling over the next move the man rang back to tell them that they were on a wild goose chase . |
| 21 | Naturally most of the boys opted for ‘ the strip ’ and each time the innuendo was made the girls pretended it was terribly witty and original , If a little naughty , just as they did when they were asked for the twentieth time if perhaps they might be the prize . |
| 22 | The next year they were followed by the first Clayton Volunteers ( named after the Reverend ( Tubby Clayton , founder of TocH ) . |
| 23 | The unions said that they were looking for the second week in January to begin an all-out stoppage . |
| 24 | It is n't even known where on Krakatoa the eruption was centred , but the chances are that it was Perboewetan , since the lava flows in the crater looked extremely fresh when they were examined in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | David Mellor , the man who warned journalists they were drinking in the Last Chance Saloon , was about to call last orders on himself . |
| 26 | But even they were affected in the fourteenth century by the repeated crises of Sussex life , the French , the sea and the Black Death from whose effects no Sussex religious house ever fully recovered . |
| 27 | erm Southwell centenary , which is next year if you recall , erm we 've at a previous meeting I raised this erm the point with councillors that next year is our centenary of our formation , we do n't have any archives unfortunately , er they were lost in the last sort of decade . |
| 28 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 29 | Even today the older houses have gables and mullioned windows which show that they were built in the seventeenth century and some of the later cottages that were erected in rows or clustered in folds during John Hey 's lifetime retain their long ranges of upstairs windows which allowed the maximum amount of light to fall on the looms . |
| 30 | There is much less evidence for the fifth century than for the fourth , when Philip and Alexander attracted attention to Macedon , but recently discovered gravestones show that by 400–350 Macedonians had good Greek names ( which they were given in the fifth century , of course ) like Xenokrates , Pierion and Kleonymos ( M. B. Hatzopoulos and L. D. Loukopoulos ( 1980 ) Philip of Macedon , plates 109–10 on pp. 206–7 ) . |