Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 2 | By contrast , the decision making system in the United States can only be described as ramshackle ; however , rationality and efficiency are not necessarily the first priorities of a democratic political system , especially one as vast and heterogeneous as the United States . |
| 3 | Leeds did great to win it last year , but it will be much harder the second time around . |
| 4 | " … over backwards to accommodate you , but it really does look , I 'm afraid , as though this incident with the canal and the cat has to be just about the last straw , ah Steve , I understand from Mr Ashton here — " Smith nodded at the older man , who pursed his lips and nodded back , " — that Mr ah … |
| 5 | In that case , the Dip.HE for such students will continue to be very largely the first two years of a degree course , though its provision may increase if credit transfer develops nationally and it becomes more common for students to undertake a two-year Dip.HE course in one institution and move to another for a third year . |
| 6 | A particular difference between murine class II-expressing macrophages and interdigitating dendritic cells seems to be that only the second subset is capable of triggering resting T cells , whereas the first needs primed T cells to induce immune responses . |
| 7 | This can be attributed to a number of factors : the increased availability of street heroin in Wirral during the early 1980s ; the periodic droughts of pot and speed at around about the same time ( some of the users suggested a direct relation between these phenomena ) ; the existence of large numbers of users initiated in the 1978–81 period who acted both as models to emulate and who were also probably the first dealers the new initiates came into contact with . |
| 8 | We were up early the next morning at 06.00 to go up to the station to catch the 07.19 Leighton - Euston train , which is a semi-stopper , it took an hour to get there . |
| 9 | Further , we were almost certainly the first publishing operation set up from scratch to capitalise on the new technology . |
| 10 | For the evidence set out above suggests that the heads of the central figures , which still relate to a certain extent to the work of 1906 and which were almost certainly the first to be painted , were not executed until the Iberian stone heads came into Picasso 's possession in March 1907 . |
| 11 | A set of 255 of the logged searches — those which were almost certainly the first search in a session or which bore no apparent relationship to the Previous search — were repeated by the experimenters on EXP CTL and a third system ( OSTEM ) which did no stemming at all . |
| 12 | It is salutary to recall that , as Europe 's main offshore islands , the British Isles were historically often the last to benefit from the diffusion of innovative ideas in Europe . |
| 13 | But what distinguishes these interchanges is the fact that the offender is so often the first to recognise that an infraction has occurred and usually initiates the appropriate repair work without being asked to do so . |
| 14 | For nominal Christians it is perhaps only the third time they have been at a religious service ; the other two being their baptism and marriage . |
| 15 | It is apparently only the second exhibition on her life and work . |
| 16 | The measure is not only the first full-scale law passed by the Supreme Soviet in its new incarnation as a professional legislature . |
| 17 | It 's not just the last day of term … it 's the last day of school … and that means lessons on the floor because the furniture 's gone . |
| 18 | It 's not quite the first student text in the field , however , for there are already Geology and the Urban Environment and Environmental Geology , although only the latter is as comprehensive as Surficial Geology . |
| 19 | And , as all marketing people know , it 's not always the first into the market that succeeds — more often than not it 's the one that shouts the loudest |
| 20 | And he told how he was ordered to retrieve the plans from the woman 's home early the next morning . |
| 21 | Because it 's still only the second week with me I think get the information down and we 'll do what we did last week . |
| 22 | It is also reportedly the first Unix connectivity product built as an integrated service of the NetWare server . |
| 23 | This is also only the second version of the Magnificat to be offered as part of a set ( Münchinger 's first-rate ‘ traditional ’ version on Decca is coupled to the Christmas Oratorio on three mid-priced CDs ; ) . |
| 24 | So you can immediately see that it would be quite wrong to make the mistake that people sometimes do make and think that the second model of the mind is really just the first one given new terms and that the ego is equivalent to the conscious . |
| 25 | But when you first say you 've got this problem , they 're losing votes , the media is n't necessarily the first thing that 's going to come to your mind . |
| 26 | Erm if you go in , along Cambridge Road there 's the turning to the right is n't there the first when you come up the hill . |
| 27 | ‘ It is n't usually the first thing I tell people about myself , although the old dollies do have their ways of claiming my attention . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 29 | The prescription of a conflicts rule , though more readily agreed than a substantive rule , is very much the second best solution . |
| 30 | ‘ Promotion and Distribution are very much the second class members of the marketing mix . ’ |