Example sentences of "[det] be [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most common position for this is on the last lexical word ( e.g. noun , adjective , verb , adverb as distinct from the function words introduced in Chapter 12 , p. 102 ) of the tone-unit . |
| 2 | This is about the fifth meal you 've made ! |
| 3 | This is about the fourth time we 've played |
| 4 | No , I tell ya , there 's about four in the company started doing it altogether , oh this is about the fourth one I think why that 's what third |
| 5 | So we want to do this is in a sixth of the time , right ? |
| 6 | Just one or two people who were who were here from the start so they remembered you know th thi this was this was more or less where the builders finished off , this was about the last house they did |
| 7 | This was of the first importance to him . |
| 8 | Page references have been included in this file as , a/though pub have covered indexes in their information skills course , this was of the first occasions when they were asked to take much of responsibility for their own project . |
| 9 | This was on the last day of an exhausting eleven-month shoot tracking down the healers , mystics and wise men of the islands . |
| 10 | This was in the 19th century and at about the same period more graves were found in Upper Halling , on the south side of Chapel Lane . |
| 11 | One night ( this was in the second week after he had arrived , and about nine or ten weeks before The Romance really began ) the man who had driven him away from the Bar had done so in a big , warm , expensive , deep-seated car . |
| 12 | This was in the last days of Mrs Thatcher 's leadership and my daughter had never known anything other than a female PM . |
| 13 | Another camera was bolted to one of the aircraft , yet another was in a third observer aircraft , as the formation took off from Rendcombe 's grass runway . |
| 14 | ‘ Whatever you see never exists simply and solely by itself , as an isolated sign or symbol , but by playing its part within a context in which relatedness as such is of the first importance ’ . |
| 15 | These are on the fourth disc . |
| 16 | The new , expensive , equipment required secure and sound cover , thus the Club had to build suitably good sheds ; these are by the 3rd fairway . |
| 17 | In fact everybody at MIP complains about it , but they 'll all be at the next one . |
| 18 | Erm you 'll be getting a new set of essay titles soon , that is for the second semester from February to erm the end of . |
| 19 | The bulk of that is for the next generation of mobile phones — the personal communications network — to get 30 p.c. of that market . |
| 20 | Cos that is like a sixth of the area is n't it ? |
| 21 | Cos that 's during the First World War , you see , and erm , he did and so he said goodbye to us all and he said I 'm going up now to say goodbye to your mother and he ran up the street here to say goodbye to my mother . |
| 22 | That 's for the first world cup race , two and four man . |
| 23 | That 's for the thirtieth you 're flying into Dave 's ? |
| 24 | That 's on the twentieth is n't it ? |
| 25 | That 's on the twentieth of December in the evening time . |
| 26 | That 's on the first question . |
| 27 | Er , I 've also received minutes from the Epping Forest from Redbridge Group and they also have a lobbying workshop erm , that 's on the second of March , and they 're asking if anybody 's interested in that . |
| 28 | Erm the next erm feature is the yellow one for the Liberal Democrats , there 's one Liberal Democrat typographical error and that 's on the second page page four of the resolutions and you 'll see that in the second column there 's a total three , three , three five , that should be amended to , sorry three , three , three five that should be amended to three , one , five , five and then where it says nine the resource budget immediately below that nine , four , five , ninety four five O , it 's three hundred and sixty thousand , three hundred and sixty million , six hundred thousand , that stays the same . |
| 29 | That 's on the next floor . " |
| 30 | Yeah we bought a new bedroom suite I think that 's about the first thing |