Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for nothing is the first chapter of his book called Creating the Space . |
| 2 | The space between them is the third dimension . |
| 3 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 4 | On 6th May — the day on which , incidentally , it actually snowed ! — I had the good fortune to play in the Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major , which formed one halfofa concert in the second part of which was the first performance of Vaughan Williams ' Sancta Civitas . |
| 5 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 6 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 7 | The Tu–144 part of the story includes some rare air-to-air shots of what was the first supersonic passenger aircraft to fly ( it flew almost three months before Concorde , on the last day of 1968 ) as well as a brief history of Tupolev and his early aircraft . |
| 8 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 9 | We 're going to play every night like it 's the last one . |
| 10 | They cling to their gang-of-lads-from-Oldham identity like it 's the last line of defence between them and the unthinkable horror of an interview with Melvyn Bragg . |
| 11 | Shut up Kim , it was alright like it was the first time |
| 12 | A good non-slip rubber bathmat with suction caps underneath it is the first essential . |
| 13 | I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants . |
| 14 | Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons . |
| 15 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 16 | the file is there , that 's a computer term , or exactly that , a l a , a listing of names , addresses and houses and cars and everything else , and a file is a defined computer term , what you do with it is the next thing |
| 17 | His strong and aggressive displays were a feature of Palace 's progress back to Division Two , but his playing career was brought to a premature end by a troublesome eye complaint and his final match with us was the 6th round FA Cup-tie against Leeds ( 0–3 ) on 10 March 1965 . |
| 18 | The f the nurse before me was the first one . |
| 19 | Just six weeks till the end of term because I 've got my books for six weeks and they 've used , date stamped in them is the last day of term ca n't be bad can it ? |
| 20 | ‘ It is a species which will ever live in my memory , from its being the first large petrel I saw after crossing the line , and from a somewhat curious incident that then occurred . |
| 21 | Blessings from you are the last thing this pious little tsatskeleh needs . ’ |
| 22 | But the figure that stood before her was the last she had expected to see . |
| 23 | tragic that 's a good word to start from it 's the first thing they 're gon na look at after the headline so it 's pretty important that that the first word , I think looting was an excellent choice here . |
| 24 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 25 | It may be noted here , however , that all the sources are agreed that he was buried in Edirne , Mecdi , in his being the first to give the precise location of his grave , namely " outside the of the Darulhadis mosque in Edirne " . |
| 26 | But when the electorate went yet again to the polls on 19 May , this time to elect their local government representatives , the DUP did quite well in what was the first genuine free-for-all among unionist parties . |
| 27 | Dogs were used to put down a land reform demonstration outside the National Congress in Asunción on June 23 , 1989 ; 10 people were injured in what was the first major use of force since Rodríguez had seized power . |
| 28 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 29 | Ignoring the disagreement between Christianity and Judaism as to which is the seventh day , working people start the week on Monday , and Sunday is their day of reward — however indulged . |
| 30 | She picked up her book and began reading , making a show of turning the pages so that he was left in no doubt that his presence next to her was the last thing she needed . |