Example sentences of "be [prep] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listening to the OAE in Mozart is like hearing the nineteenth century shovelled out of the way . ’ |
| 2 | It is like running the first 100 metres like Carl Lewis , getting into gear but pushing really hard for the whole race as you go along . |
| 3 | It is in answering the second question that the historical parallel is illuminating . |
| 4 | IT WAS like reading the last page of a well-written romance story to see John McCarthy and Jill Morrell relaxed and together a year after the end of his ordeal with Arab terrorists . |
| 5 | The nearest he came to winning a round in my book was in sharing the third , after delivering a heavy right hand that briefly staggered Eubank — whose ability to take a punch is well-documented . |