Example sentences of "[conj] be [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Depending on the type of violation that is occurring the second and third course of action may or may not be available to the designer .
2 The serial number of this bass , 72997058 , tells us that it was made in Kalamazoo ( that 's the 0 ; guitars made in Nashville at this time carried a 5 ) and that it was the 58th made in the batch that was stamped the 299th day of the year .
3 This is because we will commence knitting with the carriages at the right and be knitting the first row of background colour to the left .
4 A comrade is talking to you one moment and is gone the next , either blasted beyond recognition or seriously wounded .
5 He took a leading part in the formation of the Institute of Marine Engineers and was elected the first president in 1889 .
6 He then ran back to his position , foolishly had another go at the midfielder with his elbow and was given the first dip in the Chester bath .
7 The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit and was extubated the next morning .
8 In 1933 , just after the port was completed , it handled 2,700,000 tons , was second only to Copenhagen among Baltic ports and was ranked the ninth largest European port .
9 His Essay towards a New Theory of Vision was published in 1709 , and was followed the next year by his master-work , A Treatise concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge .
10 When Pascoe rounded the back of the house , he had already moved across the Fernies ' garden and was clearing the next hedge like a trained hurdler .
11 Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal .
12 He died in London 13 January 1613 , and was buried the next day at All Saints the Less .
13 She 's abroad but is getting the first available flight back .
14 That 's that 's one thing , but is finding the tenth root of something and then raising to the power six , or raising something to the power six and then finding the sa the tenth root , is that the same as finding the fifth root and cubing it or cubing it and finding the fifth root .
15 On Soviet television on Sept. 4 Shevardnadze ( a Georgian ) called on Gamsakhurdia to " restore dialogue " with his opponents , but was accused the next day by Gamsakhurdia of being " an enemy of Georgia " , involved with Sigua and Khoshtaria in a " plot " organized by the " communist mafia " .
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