Example sentences of "is [adv] [prep] the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The correct way to cut this type of joint is right through the two points where the sections of border intersect , although care must be exercised to avoid marking the main wallcovering where it would show . |
| 2 | Premier League chief Rick Parry has been invited but it is only for the 14 clubs . |
| 3 | The building , a powerful monument to the Cold War between East and West , is now owned by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and used as a BBC World Service relay station , staffed by just four employees.It is not within the 1,560 acre property purchased by the National Trust.Merlin Waterson , the Trust 's regional director , who accompanied yesterday 's visit by ferry from Orford Quay , said a study was under way into which of the buildings should be preserved . |
| 4 | One candidate is the duet ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ — the first vocal number in the theatre score , though it is not in the 1692 word-book : it is the first piece of ‘ new musick ’ in Q1693 . |
| 5 | The winner is still in the 2,000 Guineas but will not run and his trainer Alex Scott says we shall see him next over at least 10 furlongs . |
| 6 | In reality , the choice is up to the five countries with permanent seats on the Security Council — America , Britain , China , France and the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | After 13 years of so-called Tory economic miracle , how does the Secretary of State explain to industrialists in Yorkshire and Humberside why manufacturing investment there is now below the 1979 level , and why there were no measures in the Budget for manufacturers and manufacturing investment ? |
| 8 | The total UK repossession figure is now around the 70,000 mark . |
| 9 | The colt is out of a half-sister to Milligram , who is out of the 1,000 Guineas winner One in a Million . |
| 10 | and you can now build a LIFESPAN process whose process directory is actually DUA0 : [ SOFTWARE_LIBRARY.LSTRAIN.P ] ( whose pathname is considerably longer than 20 characters ) but to which you refer as LS$DISK : [ LSTRAIN.P ] ( which is well within the 20 characters . ) |
| 11 | What connection is there between the two events ? ’ |
| 12 | Teachers may find that terminology which is intended to clarify is sometimes on the one hand , over-prescriptive or , on the other , so indefinite as to be confusing . |