Example sentences of "the [num ord] be [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The second was essentially a matter of timing . |
2 | The first is not a lot of use in an indirect system , since once the mains stopcock has been turned off , most of the water left in the rising main can be drained out from the kitchen tap . |
3 | The first is simply a recapitulation of what we have already discussed . |
4 | The first is where a broker sells to a customer off its own book . |
5 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |
6 | Three internal streets were examined in the 1974 Red and Blue Cuttings at the west end of Kingshams Field , two being main thoroughfares throughout the history of the site , while the third was probably a service alley . |
7 | Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit . |