Example sentences of "[be] [det] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 2 | The following Brownies are all from the 5th Elgin ( St Sylvester 's ) Pack , Scotland and they would all like pen-pals . |
| 3 | Scientists believe remains dug up in a Siberian forest could be those of the last Russian Tsar and his family who were butchered by rebel guards after the 1917 communist revolution . |
| 4 | Exactly what is shown can be any of the last time and date the file was saved , the summary information , the file statistics , or the contents . |
| 5 | A group collecting around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford invoked the old legal process of ‘ appeal of murder ’ , generally regarded as obsolete ( though there had been several in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 6 | The worlds relevant to assessing the right-hand side of the principle of closure are the nearest group in which q is true , and the nearest group in which q is false , i.e. completely different sets of worlds one of which may be , as in our actual example , far more remote from our world than are any of the first four groups . |
| 7 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 8 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 9 | However , very little is known of any deaf aristocrats prior to 1750 , but there were some in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , a number of whom achieved political renown . |
| 10 | They were all on the first floor Mark . |
| 11 | The sixty-fifth floor rose and soon they were all on the sixty-sixth . |
| 12 | ‘ Given that there were many at the first party , fewer at the second and fewest at the last , how many people were there at each of the three parties , not including me ? ’ |
| 13 | The effect here is that during the last five years the Conservatives have played no part in the management of this county whatsoever , and it has been left to the other two parties to come to an agreement . |
| 14 | Te the important message that you 're , you 've raised and it is a very important one , is that over the next years , I mean we , we will have to change the way that we charge for |
| 15 | erm I think the real danger however is that over the next three four five years , erm people all over the world will get into the habit of regarding Britain as an impossibly expensive country to study in , because no other country in the world attempts to charge the full cost of it 's university education in tuition fees , and erm that gradually people will turn elsewhere . |
| 16 | The decisive period of the assimilation of Greek culture in Rome is that of the first two Punic Wars . |
| 17 | Our earliest play-text of The Winter 's Tale is that of the First Folio , also of 1623 , and whether this represents a play-text from the missing licensed text or a later version we do not know . |
| 18 | A further , equally powerful device , is that of the Second World War . |
| 19 | The style of the building is that of the 14th century , and it holds many monuments to previous rectors and the Bethell family , including a reference to Christopher Bethell who was one of the first whites to be killed in the Mafeking riots in July 1884 . |
| 20 | And I think a significant point is that for the first time in ninety three we were likely to take something in , in relation to B Sky B. |
| 21 | Colleagues I 'd just like to put one of er John 's themes and that is that for the next couple of days we 've got a hell of a lot of business to get through and er we 've done quite well so far but er I would certainly be looking where possible colleagues for formally seconding er , as often as possible , if not all the time and I really appreciate your er your assistance in that regard because we have a great deal of business to get through in the next two days . |
| 22 | Th the fact of the matter is that at the next general election , the Stormant or the Westminster election , Gerry Addams will win that seat . |
| 23 | The difference is that with the first type , the innocent party , though entitled to damages , must still perform his part of the bargain , whereas with a repudiatory breach he may , in addition to claiming damages , regard himself as discharged from his obligations under the contract . |
| 24 | What comes to mind erm is that in the last erm fifteen years or so erm we 've been able to make magnets using superconducting wire , and these magnets erm involve very very large magnetic fields , much larger than one could ever get using a , a copper-wound magnets which were the , way when you did things previously and erm there are an enormous number of applications . |
| 25 | Sign the document , pay the fee and that 's that until the next time . |
| 26 | Aideen Rogers won her match 5 and 4 and Tracy Eakin got home 2 and 1 but defeat for Eavan Higgins , Power and McCool meant Mary McKenna 's half in the last match could not affect the overall result . |
| 27 | It 's more in the second half . |
| 28 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 29 | I do n't know whether it affects anyone else but what happened to me was that for the first time in my adult life I began to feel part of a community . |
| 30 | What was new in Althusser was that for the first time this epistemological tradition was developed for a Marxism . |