Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy |
| 2 | I have to avoid the last period on the second Friday in October , which is when the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist celebrates ‘ the rich goodness of God 's vegetables ’ . |
| 3 | Fourteen new mazes will open this year — locations include Blenheim Palace and Wookey Hole Caves — which is also the 300th anniversary of the maze at Hampton Court . |
| 4 | There is a small spine-like papilla lying within the mouth slit which is probably the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 5 | There are , of course , more fundamental issues at stake here than just a falling training rate — which is where the second working party takes over . |
| 6 | It 's one of seventy which is supposedly the first one they 've got |
| 7 | Sources hear that internationalisation work is under way , which is usually the last task before release . |
| 8 | The sequence begins ( as with Hegel ) with the establishment of the first object relation , which is therefore the first stage towards eventual self-consciousnesses . |
| 9 | At the 14th , the par-5 , which is now the 15th , Jacklin looked at the scoreboard and Lee says to him ‘ Tony , do n't look at the scoreboard because I can beat all of them up there . |
| 10 | She 's not the first servant to get herself into trouble and she wo n't be the last . |
| 11 | ‘ And she 's not the first one in our family , ’ sighs Goldie , flushing a becoming pastel pink . |
| 12 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 13 | Less surprisingly , she is also the first Green . |
| 14 | POOR Isabelle Duchesnay … she is not the first woman to discover that the man she married skater Chris Dean was more in love with his work than her . |
| 15 | 1947 saw her launched from the Kelvin yard and she is now the last sea going paddle steamer in the world , faithfully paddling the old route down the Clyde and out to the islands of the west when there are enough tourists to cram her nostalgic upper decks and saloons . |
| 16 | We would do well to look at the life of the one who is arguably the first church planter ; the apostle Peter . |
| 17 | The Whitchurch one is probably the second most advanced one now after the Victoria , Oswestry ward , but the Oswestry , sorry the Victoria ward instead of Oswestry , and there is a , a , a need , I think Chairman , that I think will be very close now to , to forming a , a , a joint consortium to look at , which goes between the County , er , the District , the Town Council , the Tech , the Rural Development Commission , local businesses in Whitchurch , the local Chamber of Commerce in Whitchurch , to try to pull everybody together , to pool their efforts and resources for the town . |
| 18 | Well there 's always , there 's always the next bit of garden , it is n't there when we , when we put the rubbish out , then Paddy says is that everything and I say well you know it 's not , you know that it 's going to blow up again as soon as you 've come inside , but do n't worry . |
| 19 | IF YOU ca n't have Mr Major at your election night party then there is always the next best thing : Mrs Thatcher . |
| 20 | Because very often you , a father can be very keen on gardening and getting the children to help him is just the last thing . |
| 21 | When he accidentally gets talking to women who have children , it 's practically the first question he asks them — it 's the first test they face . |
| 22 | ‘ I suspect it 's probably the first decent meal you 've had for days , Melody . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's probably the third or fourth most significant , ’ says John Barrow , professor of astronomy at the University of Sussex . |
| 24 | So it 's probably the last . " |
| 25 | It 's not the first delivery of food after a famine , but the scene suggests it could be . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not the first time a child has been attacked by an alsatian — even a crossbreed like this can be savage , ’ said Lee 's father John , 37 . |
| 27 | It 's not the first time this has happened : he 's gone with prostitutes before . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's not the first time it 's happened this season , either . |
| 29 | It 's not the first time that a link has been made between erupting volcanoes and the weather . |
| 30 | It 's not the first brush with real crime for ITV 's Sun Hill sleuth . |