Example sentences of "be [prep] a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The battle , between Diana de Moutis of Art Expertise and Didier Imbert of Didier Fine Art ( organiser of the recent exhibition of Botero sculptures on the Champs-Elysees ) has already been through a first hearing which was won by de Moutis , and an appeal , won last November by Imbert . |
| 2 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 3 | But you ca n't , it 's just impossible , cos you live in the ar , you know Green , you 're like a second class citizen , you know . |
| 4 | He has recovered his form superbly after a broken finger threatened his career last season , and England boss Graham Taylor said : ‘ Sometimes when you 're with a Second Division club or out in the far North East you can feel forgotten . |
| 5 | well we 're in a next week . |
| 6 | And having confided in her , she discussed her troubles with Don Burrell , the Canadian with whom she had stayed when on a school exchange to the States and who had been like a second father since the death of her own . |
| 7 | erm , the adventure section was quite successful in a lot of respects they had quite a few people er attached to it , the scout group and the cub group , cub packs did n't have very many , but erm the adventure section had quite a few people , er and in fact we 've got people doing the tent stalls at the moment that are from a seventh mutant , which is , what it was and of course they 've disenfranchised if you like er but we 're looking , the district is looking to create a new group with Buckland |
| 8 | No matter how long it takes , communication should n't be through a third person unless it 's absolutely necessary . |
| 9 | The fall in the shares also reflects the fact that the more Saatchi does to put its house in order , the less chance there will be of a third party doing the job instead . |
| 10 | They would be like a second family to you . |
| 11 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 12 | ‘ The ideal milieu , ’ says the reply from the WCC , ‘ would be in a Third World country ( where ) the ‘ laboratory ’ for research lies at the very door-step of the academic institution . |
| 13 | For example initial expenditure by both partners could be on a first phase of access and servicing , with the grant receivable by virtue of that expenditure reinvested in a second phase , and so one . |
| 14 | The British people know that ; they are well aware of the dangers of Britain being in a second division in Europe , and they do not want to be left behind . |
| 15 | But we were without a first officer . |
| 16 | I mean , when you look at it , it 's for a third party fire and theft . |
| 17 | The new 1.8i engine is worth a second glance , it seems . |
| 18 | I 'VE BEEN A BLOODY FOOL — ALL I ASK NOW IS FOR A SECOND CHANCE … |
| 19 | This would be in accordance with the " acquisition hierarchy " observed by Edwards , assuming that the acquisition is of a second dialect rather than a new language altogether . |
| 20 | Roaring Springs at the junction of Bright Angel Canyon , is like a last oasis before entering the desert . |
| 21 | He is with a second man . |
| 22 | P. , B. and D. are together with one family , T. and A. were initially together although A. has since had to be moved to a small children 's home , and K. is with a third family . |
| 23 | But as they do , it 's gon na hit her cos it 's not year that it does n't help , see if she 's in a third year class , she was always as she is now , in the top of that , but even |
| 24 | One of these , the composer 's working score of a late version of his Te Deum , Paris , Bibliotheque Nationale ( F-Pn ) , H400D(3) ( illus.3 ) , is all in his own hand except for a fair copy of a shortened version of the seventh movement , ‘ Tu Rex gloriae ’ which is in a second hand , and another inserted folio with an alternative version of ‘ Dignare ’ and ‘ Miserere ’ , in a third hand . |
| 25 | The closer one is to a second language group , either socially or psychologically , the greater the probability of adequate learning . |
| 26 | £35,000 is on a second mortgage to Dorend Limited which chareges interest of 39 per cent . |
| 27 | It almost always is on a first night , when the audience tends to be Mums , Dads , husbands , wives , lovers and friends-in-the-business . |
| 28 | The earliest depiction of it is on a sixth century B. C. black-figure amphora ( above ) from Greece . |
| 29 | Secondly , that where information becomes publicly available through the actions of the plaintiff the courts will more readily find that the information no longer has the requisite quality of confidence than where publication is by a third party . |
| 30 | Beirut : His first embassy posting was as a Third Secretary in Beirut . |