Example sentences of "is [vb pp] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The first day of bleeding is considered the first day of the menstrual cycle , when the unfertilised egg and the lining of the womb is shed and discharged .
2 An announcement , perhaps blessed by Microsoft , is expected the last week in January .
3 A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew …
4 This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988
5 This AGREEMENT is made the 29th day of January 1988
6 THIS AGREEMENT is made the 13th day of February one thousand nine hundred and ninety in Ghent
7 THIS AGREEMENT is made the twenty-third day of November , one thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine
8 THIS AGREEMENT IS made the first day of February 1989 between of ( ‘ The Publisher ’ ) and of ( ‘ The Distributor ’ )
9 When this is done the last equation becomes .
10 The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics .
11 But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult .
12 If blood pressure is elevated the first question must be ‘ Am I using the correct size cuff ? ’
13 Milk , after the baby is born the first time the baby actually has to digest its own food it has to process the food that it takes in , what 's in milk ?
14 The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation .
15 They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day .
16 Voltaire , an altogether more sympathetic figure , who incidentally used to serve himself the best Burgundy while giving his guests vin ordinaire , observed in one of his philosophical tales that la lune de miel is followed the next month by la lune de l'absinthe . ] )
17 A special chart can be drawn by the parents showing the days of the week and every night the child has a dry bed a special sticker is awarded the next morning for the child to stick on the chart .
18 Your opponent is allowed the first turn , and will almost always begin by picking up two different cards , say an ace and a six .
19 When a total quantity of Q l films is purchased the last film yields exactly P 1 pounds worth of extra utility to consumers .
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