Example sentences of "be [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I did n't know he 'd even been out the first time . |
| 32 | Lily was on the point of having what might yet prove to be only the first stage of a thoracoplasty . |
| 33 | Apple chairman John Sculley told analysts at a briefing last month that the servers will be only the first step in a new push to support corporate users . |
| 34 | He will be only the fifth director in the Cleveland Museum 's seventy-five year history . |
| 35 | He has contributed much to music in the Farnham area during the last 20 years and the many supporters of the Tilford Bach Festival will no doubt want to hear what will be only the second performance of his work . |
| 36 | But trapping appears to be only the second line of defence . |
| 37 | When he fights for his country in Barcelona in July , Richardson will be only the second representative from Middlesbrough to compete in the Olympics . |
| 38 | It will be only the second time in 27 Tests at the Kensington Oval that no Barbadian fast bowler is included . |
| 39 | He would be only the second goalkeeper to be similarly honoured by the Scottish Professional Footballers ' Association ( Theo Snelders , in 1989 , was the other ) . |
| 40 | Sparc will be only the third architecture — after Intel Corp 's iAPX-86 and Hewlett-Packard Co 's PA-RISC — that Novell Inc will have native NetWare 4.0 on . |
| 41 | If successful , Party Politics would be only the third horse to win in successive years , in the last 57 years , following on Reynoldstown ( 1935–36 ) and of course , Red Rum ( 1973–74 ) . |
| 42 | I realized suddenly that that was why lovers always feel the need to sleep together after making love , and to rest and be together the next day . |
| 43 | I 'm not the first visitor to this little planet of yours , you know . ’ |
| 44 | NORWEGIAN international Tore Dahlum could be just the first addition to Manchester United 's staff as manager Alex Ferguson seeks a goalscoring hero to revive their Premier League title prospects . |
| 45 | And what I hate even more is the thought that I 'm just the next number on your list . |
| 46 | 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 ? |
| 47 | If you 're gon na turn to stealing , then from then on it 's gon na be not the last resort any more , it 's gon na be one of the first resorts because it pays so much quicker . |
| 48 | I never sit around , I 'm always the first person |
| 49 | ‘ I did n't kill him , but I 'm probably the last person to have seen him alive . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | He would be there the next morning if summoned , and Nigel could have a general discussion with him and leave him some sums to do regarding the all-decisive head . |
| 53 | Of course , if all had been there the second day the justices could well , and should in my judgment , have invited them to consider the intention that they then had to substitute prohibited steps orders for the sought after care order . |
| 54 | That 's wh- , must have been virtually the last day when we discovered the Disney shop across the road . |
| 55 | you were right the first time . |
| 56 | ‘ No … you were right the first time : what happened between us was a dreadful mistake … unplanned . |
| 57 | No , you were right the first time boy ! |
| 58 | The basis of this approach is the belief that the response which a subject makes is not an immediate outcome of sensory stimulation but results from a number of processes which occur over time , stimulation of the sensory receptors being only the first stage in a series of events . |
| 59 | We were apparently the last straw . |
| 60 | He said the changes were only the first step in a longer plan for the building , a former cinema . |