Example sentences of "[prep] be [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This error proved to be nearly the last straw needed to break his credit , since he had raised every cent he could in order to invest in land for building . |
| 2 | But if one looks for Britain 's centre of gravity , it is found to be nearer the first in each pair of choices above . |
| 3 | I I 'm likely , er to be away the last two weeks in August , and David 's going to be away the last week in August and the first of September , were n't you ? |
| 4 | I I 'm likely , er to be away the last two weeks in August , and David 's going to be away the last week in August and the first of September , were n't you ? |
| 5 | But trapping appears to be only the second line of defence . |
| 6 | Shortly before the joint statement was issued , Coopers & Lybrand became what is thought to be only the second US firm to file a countersuit against a former client . |
| 7 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 8 | This was to be only the first of many special vessels to be built in the Leith area . |
| 9 | in the following issue of The Building News asked if ‘ E.A.F. ’ had ever heard of an astylar composition , but another reply , from ‘ A. ’ in The Times on 1st November , was to be almost the last comment in that newspaper on the controversy . |
| 10 | Used to be always the first of April . |