Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of my companions on this field trip to the mines are from the Third World . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , due to the troubled times in this area of central Europe , little survives of early Gothic building ; the great Czech monuments of the Middle Ages are of the fourteenth and fifteenth century , and even later , and are , in consequence , in the richer , more decorative Gothic style . |
| 3 | All the hotel bedrooms are on the first and second floors and have a colour TV , a radio , a telephone and air-conditioning ( from 15 June to 15 September ) . |
| 4 | Very few pupils left before completing a full five-year course , and 40 per cent of the total pupil population of all the schools were in the sixth form . |
| 5 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 6 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 7 | Leeds last 2 goals were in the last 8 minutes . |
| 8 | While none of these pictures is of the first rank , some are of interest : Paris Bordone 's ‘ A Courtesan ’ ; Pietro Marescalchi 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned , with Saints James the Greater and Prosdocimus ’ of 1564 and Michele Giambono 's ‘ Madonna and Child enthroned ’ . |
| 9 | In 1979 , National Savings was on the 18th issue of fixed interest certificates . |
| 10 | Mugs are in the next cupboard along to your right . ’ |
| 11 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |
| 12 | The first two rounds were on the first day of the Championships , and I cruised them comfortably . |
| 13 | Now the depot office the they in those days controlled what a man 's duties were for the next day and a man did n't know what he was on until about twelve o'clock one day what he was on the next day . |
| 14 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 15 | The biggest vote in two decades was on the first Common Market bill in 1974 , when 509 voted ( and more turned out ) . |
| 16 | Dealing days are on the third Friday of March , June , September and December . |
| 17 | Seabirds were badly affected , with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die . |
| 18 | National governments and international organisations were among the first institutions to adopt electronic processing of large datasets ( e.g. census data , tax records ) . |
| 19 | The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed . |
| 20 | Furthermore , we should recall that in modern individuals ( and almost certainly also in the past ) internalized verbal commands and prohibitions are of the first significance in the acquisition of the superego and manifest this aspect of themselves in the auditory hallucinations of accusing and scorning voices so often found in paranoia . |
| 21 | Two of the four changes are within the second helix ( 30 ) . |
| 22 | Young people with learning difficulties are for the first time fully included in all the provisions of youth support services rather than being treated under separate legislation . |
| 23 | This , at least , was the way things were until the third quarter of this century . |
| 24 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 25 | It is hard enough to tell how characteristic these figures were in the twelfth century ; impossible to tell how they compared with earlier centuries . |
| 26 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 27 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 28 | The evidence indicates that the polar regions are among the first to detect changes arising from greenhouse warming . |
| 29 | The first law permits us to unnest IFs , so that all arguments are of the first type . |
| 30 | Its construction , by 30,000 men over vast tracts of unexplored Canadian trains are among the last refuges from the characterless hell of modern travel . |