Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the [num ord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe it or not — his was the 15th or the 18th of January too . ) |
| 2 | ‘ I was so astonished that I 've been waiting until people started to come to church so that I could show somebody and you 're the first and most suitable . |
| 3 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 4 | So suddenly fatherless , and so abruptly given to a husband , translated from the familiar company of her sisters at Brecon to this barbarous foreign court where she was the last and loneliest of the children , Isabella had looked round her forlornly for an anchorage to which she might ride in safety . |
| 5 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
| 6 | In July 1939 , a group of fifteen children from Great Engeham and Whittingham Farm School left for Palestine , but they were the last until after the war . |
| 7 | Nex anyway it 's quite near Portsmouth and we heard that the first Queen Elizabeth ship , they do n't say it 's the first but they call this one the Q E Two but there was a Q E One , you see at one time and so we took a coach from there to Southampton because we heard that she was in dock there and so we went and there were crowds of people and all in a queue waiting to go in . |
| 8 | Slater also says it 's the first and only time he 's ever seen clock ratings take such baby steps — 33 to 40 to 45 to 50 . |
| 9 | It 's the first and so far only British union to employ a full-time officer in Brussels , giving you direct access to the law-making process and E C funds to set up to benefit trade unions . |
| 10 | but this whole case is about management and service charges and you 're person who erm assess them for the purposes of the brochure , you say you do n't recall whether it 's the second or third addition ever seen by you ? |
| 11 | It 's the third or fourth . |
| 12 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 13 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 14 | It is the first and second parts which follow Morgan most closely . |
| 15 | Of the remaining three types of modification , it is the first and second which have been found to be associated with children 's differential rates of progress ( Cross , 1978 ; Ellis , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | We shall find that it is the second and third of these recapitulations and expansions of the primal trauma which are of special relevance to an understanding of modern social conditions and present day ego-psychology . |
| 17 | It is the last because ACDP itself has almost reached its objective of transforming all SCOTVEC 's advanced courses into their new modular format . |
| 18 | However , it is the third and final stage of the argument that reveals fully its strategic aims . |
| 19 | It is the third and possibly the second group to which ‘ new subcultural theory ’ applies . |
| 20 | However , it is the next and last version which can most reasonably be regarded as the true Pacific . |
| 21 | He is the first and , outliving Dean and Clift , the last of the great Hollywood rebels . |
| 22 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 23 | He is the first or second greatest miler in the last 10 years . ’ |
| 24 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 25 | It was the first and last time they have had such privacy and they returned to Balmoral to join the Royal Family for their traditional September break , tanned , relaxed and obviously very much in love . |
| 26 | It was the first and last time they have ever had such privacy |
| 27 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 28 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 29 | It was the first and last visit by a British reigning monarch to Russia . |
| 30 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |