Example sentences of "it [was/were] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
| 2 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 3 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 4 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 5 | He had been on the fringes of politics in the nineteen-hundreds , he had sought erm to get adopted as a parliamentary candidate , he had erm taken part in the movement for female emancipation , erm on one occasion the police were only prevailed upon to save him from being mobbed by an angry crowd by being told that he was the brother of an Earl erm But it was with the First World War that his practical activities really began . |
| 6 | It was at the 9th hole in the second round of the World Championship of Women 's Golf that this recently acquired touch of caution came into its own . |
| 7 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 8 | I thought it was at the tenth anniversary , every five years after that , I did n't realise that came into , John said it was . |
| 9 | The figures were required each month , and it was at the third month that the worst discrepancy came . |
| 10 | Francis was delighted at landing Bright — even if it was at the third time of asking . |
| 11 | But he said it was on the 15th , and that 's Thursday . ’ |
| 12 | Because it was on the twentieth floor , the flat had an amazing daytime view of the great and glittering river ; by night , it was the great towers of the financial district to the west that glittered . |
| 13 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 14 | It was on the first floor of a late Victorian house in a road which was not too far from Craven Cottage . |
| 15 | It was on the first floor of what had once been a small eighteenth-century town-house . |
| 16 | ‘ It was on the first night that Lesley-Jane told you she was pregnant . ’ |
| 17 | It was on the first tape . |
| 18 | Logically , I suppose , it was on the 6th May 1910 , when Halley 's Comet was making one of its once-a-century visits to our skies to blaze forth the death of princes , and King Edward VII joined his international ancestors . |
| 19 | The company has a large number of Business Expansion Scheme investors who backed the company before it was on the Third Market . |
| 20 | It was on the third evening that she went round Ashden Place . |
| 21 | It was on the last day of 1988 that he began the experiments whose data were to appear in the published paper . |
| 22 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 23 | It was on the fifteenth of April that they waylaid the lord of Parfois on his own ground , in the thick copse of scrub-oak and brushwood threaded by the narrow path that linked the main approach of the castle with the highway to Shrewsbury . |
| 24 | Lord Denning said that it had to be so serious that it was of the first importance that offenders be brought to justice . |
| 25 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 26 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 27 | In 1888 it was for the first time possible to go by train the whole way from Constantinople to Calais , and the Trans-Siberian railway was completed in 1904 . |
| 28 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 29 | But at the conference it was for the first time agreed to allow the constituency parties to elect their own separate representatives to the National Executive , and this at once led to the appearance in this category of Sir Stafford Cripps , Professor Harold Laski and D. N. Pritt — all advocates of close collaboration with the Communist Party , and Pritt indistinguishable from an actual card-carrying member . |
| 30 | Well it was for the next two years . |