Example sentences of "[noun] it [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Edward it was the third of many stages on his career as a writer : |
| 2 | situated in Fleet Street it was the second house in London to sell coffee , and by c . |
| 3 | The necessity to provide enough material to fill 20 or so pages of Tinsley 's Magazine each month exerted its own pressure , forcing him to fall back on recent autobiographical and architectural experiences , but appropriately when the novel appeared in book-form in May 1873 to favourable reviews it was the first to bear his name on the title-page . |
| 4 | Since joining INCUBUS it was the first time he 'd come across men who carried guns — outside the States . |
| 5 | This week it was the first time they 've been beaten by the Irish in the league . |
| 6 | For the Americans it was the first declaration in a film that love for pleasure is not sin . |
| 7 | Even in that case it was the third complaint from a woman who had had her previous two met . |
| 8 | In many cases it was the first time anyone had explained to the man in the trench that there is more to his job than laying pipes ! |
| 9 | And of course it was the first thing Hepzibah said , turning pink and steamy from the stove and smiling as if it were the most natural thing in the world that Carrie and Nick should appear in her kitchen at precisely this minute . |
| 10 | Tranmere now were not only confident but cocky , and as Spurs deteriorated into a formation as ragged as a returning Battle of Britain squadron it was the Third Division side who found space and time . |
| 11 | Apart from smallpox it was the first major infectious disease to decline . |
| 12 | According to opinion pollsters Harris it was the third most important issue on voters minds in 1987 . |
| 13 | Five hundred thousand of our members took part in that particular ballot four hundred and fifty thousand of our members decided that they would support a political fund it was the first awakening , in my opinion , since nineteen forty five of the political views of ordinary trade union members . |
| 14 | Over the first two days most of the home points had been garnered by the Big Four comprising Seve Ballesteros , Jose Maria Olazabal , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam but in the end it was the third Spaniard and the middle-aged Irishman who rose to the occasion when their contribution was needed most . |
| 15 | Last year it was the 19th century novel and its legacy , now it 's Shakespeare . |
| 16 | ‘ I believe if he was into drugs it was the first time . |
| 17 | But on both occasions it was the next logical step — he had nowhere else to go . |
| 18 | The digger careered around in a big circle , so that when the two humans crawled out of the wreckage it was the first thing they saw . |
| 19 | When Phillips scored the third goal for Norwich a minute before time it was the twelfth that Clough 's side have conceded . |