Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SunSoft says it 's reached the second milestone in its Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF ( Distributed Object Management Facility ) , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's CORBA specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 2 | I 'm dead against this , er , on principle , I think it 's cutting the first sod of the hole that you 're preparing to dig yourselves . |
| 3 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 4 | With Markham , LASMO has achieved two milestones in the British oil industry — the field is the first offshore development lying across the UK/Netherlands median line , and it is producing the first gas to be exported from the UK into the Continent . |
| 5 | The England manager is a slave to slip catching practice , difficult though it is to recall the last time one of his bowlers located an outside edge . |
| 6 | The unprimed will not necessarily be diagonal as it should be if it is to satisfy the first part of eqn ( 6.16 ) . |