Example sentences of "was [verb] [num] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other architects to be awarded prizes for Second Empire designs on the War Department list were Botrel d'Hazeville , whose grand scheme resembling the Louvre was given second place ; John Thomas Rochead , whose design united the two offices in an ornate single building with high-roofed corner pavilions , was awarded third place ; the brothers , Edward and William Habershon , whose scheme for one large building with prominent central and corner pavilions and mansard roofs , around a central quadrangle , was given one of the fifth equal places ; along with John Dwyer , whose treatment was very similar to Rochead 's , but less ornate . |
| 2 | A close working relationship with John Wilkinson , the club chairman , developed over the last five years , and Ashcroft 's position was considered one of the First Division 's safest . |
| 3 | He looked at her and she felt the colour rising in her cheeks at the knowledge that she was breaking one of the first rules of medicine , which was never to make promises you could n't possibly guarantee to keep . |
| 4 | At about the same time , i.e. the end of the nineteenth century , Charles Booth ( 1840–1916 ) was conducting one of the first major social surveys , which he published between 1891 and 1903 in seventeen volumes entitled Life and Labour of the People in London . |
| 5 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 6 | Scott was awarded the highest prize , with third on the Foreign Office list , Deane and Woodward were fourth , and Street was awarded one of the fifth prizes on the same list . |
| 7 | Woosnam had had three birdies in his first five holes and the only shot he dropped in going out in 34 was to take five at the ninth , where he drove into the trees . |
| 8 | In 1782 Warltire was elected one of the first forty-five honorary members of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society , the others including such illustrious men as Antoine Lavoisier , Alessandro Volta , and Benjamin Franklin . |