Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [be] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | On the conscious level I was at first glad to get back to school for the summer term . |
2 | In Maymyo I was at first rather at a loose end , for most of the civilian families had left , and the Establishment chaplain was there to carry on the church services and to look after the few people left . |
3 | How the mind works is a question we are at last beginning to be able to answer . |
4 | She was in first thing , I mean I sent it off that evening she was in first thing the next morning yes that 's fine . |
5 | Or you can use the Back Door to hop between two rooms — it takes you back to the room you were in last . |
6 | This was Albrecht Ritschl 's The Christian Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation , which came out in three volumes between 1870 and 1874 and launched the movement which was at first called ‘ the Ritschlian theology ’ , but is now generally labelled ‘ Liberal Theology ’ . |
7 | The worsening unemployment , poverty and despair have fostered the fascist ‘ Taukei ’ movement which was behind last year 's coups and is currently shaping the country 's political future . |
8 | Lyte — whose bicentenary it is on 1st June , this year — was also a fanatical bookman . |
9 | And Hopkins grins like a man who is at last easy in his skin . |
10 | We will illustrate fourth normal form by looking at a relation which is in first normal form and which contains information about modules , lecturers and text books . |
11 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
12 | In general the earlier in the day first class letters are posted , the more certainty there is of next day delivery . |
13 | On the one hand there was at last the opportunity of some concentrated action and , with ‘ Imshi ’ leading us , one could feel reasonably confident . |
14 | The iron pricker which was at first common was replaced by brass or copper . |
15 | This has happened before and no matter what people say I think in my second year we were about 16th or 17th . ’ |
16 | Here it is important to see that the traditional category of plural is not symmetrically applied to first Person in the way it is to third : we does not mean plural speakers in the same way that they means more than one third person entity ( Lyons , 1968 : 277 ) . |
17 | After years of medical doubt it is at last safe to say with conviction that an apple a day along with the other fibre-rich foods you will eat on the F-Plan does indeed keep the doctor away . |
18 | The Brotherhood has immense economic power which was at first based on its control of the ground-nut trade but later on a diversified portfolio of business interests , many of them urban . |
19 | I had started at the Royal College of Music , and the atmosphere there was at first hostile to volunteering . |
20 | To some extent he was at first exonerated from confronting them with this reality by grants of papal crusading tenths , sexennial ones levied on the clergy only , authorized in 1274 and 1291 , and yielding about £20,000 annually . |