Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin 's position in the firm had been between the two . |
| 2 | Having been through the six months of the greenbelt local plan enquiry , I can say quite clearly to this er examination in public , that I doubt whether there is the land available erm er around the inner edge erm erm to increase the level of of housing development in and around the city without seriously prejudicing greenbelt objectives . |
| 3 | His opposite number , Clive Lloyd , had already been through the two formative experiences of his captaincy . |
| 4 | Once you had been through the three years what did you find had developed most for you as an actor ? |
| 5 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 6 | Enjoying widespread support in the constituencies , the supporters of the tariff threatened to become a danger to Baldwin 's leadership — as they had been during the 1929–31 period . |
| 7 | How many by-elections have there been during the 1987–92 Parliament ? |
| 8 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 9 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 10 | These are for the two people involved in writing the Project Video books . |
| 11 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 12 | The truth is I am between the two and capable of doing both . ’ |
| 13 | I am glad they 've approved it because it 's , it 's removed any uncertainty there might have been about the nineteen nineties , slightly disappointing that they chose to tinker with our wording here and there , but , but by and large , not too unhappy . |
| 14 | There , contrary to expectation , primary schools are of the two to three teacher type even in the heavily populated Punjab province , partly because of the village concept of life and partly because the community structure makes this the best and perhaps the only acceptable form of organisation . |
| 15 | The nave is of the first quarter of the 17C and the altars are of the 1670s . |
| 16 | The answer depends in part on arithmetic , and on how far short the Conservatives are of the 326 seats needed . |
| 17 | A reminder of that competition question for you , a History of Sport video to be won , we 're after the three world heavyweight champions . |
| 18 | Now that we 're into the Nineties , the agencies have changed tack , and such Eighties ' characteristics as greed , selfishness and sad Paisley ties have become passé . |
| 19 | These kind of windows are very cheap , in fact this one I think cost about two hundred and fifty pounds altogether , but when you 're doing big er double folding shutters and glass windows and things like that , then you 're into the thousands . |
| 20 | We 're in the 1990s , not the 1890s . ’ |
| 21 | Just because we 're in the nineties does n't mean we can assume they 'll be friendly . |
| 22 | We 've been together eight years now — so we 're over the seven year itch , not that I had one . |
| 23 | I noted from Gergiev 's conducting CV that he had n't escaped the grip of the Union of Composers : the works or its secretary- general , the ogre-figure of Tikhon Khrennikov who had been behind the 1948 denunciations of Prokofiev and Shostakovich , are a fairly regular feature . |
| 24 | Though Wyatt had been against the Seven , he had played no part in the murder of Minister Lwo . |
| 25 | The graves contained the bodies of up to 200 policemen , many of whom had been blindfolded and shot in the back of the head , who were presumed to have been amongst the 600 captured by the LTTE on June 11 [ see above ; pp. 37529-30 ] . |
| 26 | All three — economist Zhou Duo , who had been amongst the 211 released on May 10 , Taiwanese-born folk singer Hou Dejin , and newspaper editor Gao Xin — were released in mid-June . |
| 27 | These two worlds , moreover , are like the two worlds of men and women in Amis . |
| 28 | ‘ They are like the two sides of a coin , or rather a smooth unstamped metallic disc . |
| 29 | Most sales are under the 60,000 pound mark , and low mortgage rates and other incentives are geared to the first time buyer . |
| 30 | We changed to meet the demands of the '70s and '80s and now we are into the '90s with many more changes to come ; I am confident that there is a very bright future for our Company which is blessed with a lot of very good professional people who we must be careful not to undervalue . |