Example sentences of "it was the [num ord] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the eleventh or perhaps only the tenth time I had fallen that morning . |
| 2 | It was the first and last time they have had such privacy and they returned to Balmoral to join the Royal Family for their traditional September break , tanned , relaxed and obviously very much in love . |
| 3 | It was the first and last time they have ever had such privacy |
| 4 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 5 | It was the first and last time I was to fly on one of its mercy missions . |
| 6 | It was the first and last visit by a British reigning monarch to Russia . |
| 7 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 8 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 9 | It was the first and only time I walked over to the pavillon , knocked on the door and entered alone . |
| 10 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 11 | Mr Bergg has now decided that it was the first and last . |
| 12 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |
| 13 | it was the fifth or the sixth of |
| 14 | He took the stairs slowly , trying to remember if it was the third or the fourth step from the bottom that creaked when you put your weight on it . |
| 15 | the first two days ' golf featured a Pro/Am event , but it was the third and final day which captured the attention of the public . |
| 16 | It was the last but one happy time I had in Fulham . |
| 17 | It was the last but one of the big November parades with the tanks and regiments supervised by generals who were sequinned with medals . |
| 18 | I do n't know whether she had any more , she said she hoped it was the last and I should think she did , thirteen children to look after . |
| 19 | And the , the chef 's were squeezing the custard carton and it was going cos it was the last and the |
| 20 | When Phillips scored the third goal for Norwich a minute before time it was the twelfth that Clough 's side have conceded . |
| 21 | Mary said it was 20 June because that was the night before the solstice , the longest day , and Rufus said it was the 24th and he , Adam , said it was the 23rd because that was the eve of the 24th which was Midsummer day . |