Example sentences of "it be [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | when he 's down he ca n't move , I said yes he can , she said he ca n't , and three times she told them and it were n't until the third day , they apologise , they said I 'm awfully sorry we did n't realise just how |
| 2 | I felt an incredible sense of relief and achievement , but as Richard quickly reminded me it 's not during the first free flights that a bird takes the opportunity to fly off , because it does n't fully realise what it means to be free . |
| 3 | " I was followed today — and it 's not for the first time , either . " |
| 4 | We went in and we paid seven pounds for me and my mum to get in , we did n't pay for the kids cos if they know they 're gon na sit on your lap , they get in there for nothing , but once we get in there we give them their own chair anyway , providing you go in like it 's not in the first week , the following week when the show is quieter and not so many people going |
| 5 | I said even it 's not till the last . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's just around the next corner . |
| 7 | Having finished a job , they do n't sit around enjoying the results — it 's on to the next . |
| 8 | And when one house is improved to the limit , it 's on to the next there too . |
| 9 | Smash 'em all and it 's on to the next level . |
| 10 | It 's hot , it 's happy and it 's home for the next six weeks , along with the University Arms Hotel a few minutes ' walk away . |
| 11 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 12 | It 's only in the last ten or twenty years that people have had the time or the money to have hobbies , especially to do with music or painting . |
| 13 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 14 | I always was attacked on the grounds that the world I wrote about did n't exist and it 's only in the last five to ten years here in Ireland , that my work is seen to be actually true . |
| 15 | And I mean there has been up until fairly recently , it 's only in the last few years that relations have tended to get a bit better . |
| 16 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 17 | They said it 's only in the last five to seven years that they 've had the technology to do it . ’ |
| 18 | It 's only within the last couple of year , and then oh no you can nae do a certain of the er it was actually our vice president at the started the campaign over in Fife , and they won through . |
| 19 | Er er it seems that the Council have known about this for six months er and it 's only within the last week or two er that information has got out so it seems to me that that 's something that er that we ought to take an interest in . |
| 20 | Then it turned out to be rather unusually abundant and erm we now have the problem of trying to understand why it 's there in the first place . |
| 21 | It is largely in the last decade that banks have modified their traditional role of borrowing from individuals to lend to industry , and have started lending massively to individuals themselves too . |
| 22 | ‘ Sometimes it does get me down , but I get over that and then it is off to the next place . ’ |
| 23 | And it is really in the last decade that credit cards have been sold as a major source of credit ; and that American banks have tried to sell people loans here . |
| 24 | It is therefore to the second alternative — selling goods and services overseas — that countries must look if they are to maintain and improve their living standards and avoid a balance of payments crisis . |
| 25 | It is there in the Ninth but in the Ninth there is great beauty and a sense of harmony with death . |
| 26 | It is only for the last century and a half that a direct picture becomes a convincing possibility . |
| 27 | Although Britain has been occupied by man for more than 25,000 years , in a form of intermittent visits over long periods between glaciations , it is only for the last 12,000 years or so that the country has been continuously occupied , with people moving into Britain permanently to exploit what resources were available . |
| 28 | It is large , rich and compressed , but it is only of the eighth magnitude , and I find it very difficult with × 7 and not really easy with × 8.5 or × 12 , though with × 20 it is obvious enough . |
| 29 | It is only after the next stage , gastrulation , that the form of the animal begins to emerge . |
| 30 | It is only amongst the third , however , that this can be seen as ‘ causal ’ in any determinate sense . |