Example sentences of "was the [num ord] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , Sir Richard ( c. 1410–1482 ) , courtier and poet , was the fifth son in the family of five sons and four daughters of William , seventh Baron Roos of Helmsley ( d . |
| 2 | This was the 9th championships at Little Wittenham . |
| 3 | This year was the fiftieth anniversary of his joining the British Trotskyist movement . |
| 4 | May , this year , was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |
| 5 | May , this year , was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |
| 6 | May , this year was the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Dambusters ' Raid . |
| 7 | It was the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Medau College in Berlin in 1929 but not much was made of this , Dr Jochen Medau explained that they were looking to the future rather than the past . |
| 8 | It was the 12th goal of the season for Aldridge , who was yesterday named in the Republic of Ireland World Cup squad to meet Spain in a fortnight . |
| 9 | Saturday , 25th May 1974 , was the eleventh day of the general strike called by the Ulster Workers ’ Council . |
| 10 | It was the second attack on Tilly , a 22-month-old filly , in six weeks at her field in Woodside , Telford , Shropshire . |
| 11 | It was the second attack on his Elmfield Street house . |
| 12 | It was the second weekend after the dinner party . |
| 13 | It was the Second Law of Thermodynamics which gave Victorian intellectuals a certain frisson because it seemed to imply that the world was running down . |
| 14 | Bush appeared to have recovered from what was later described as gastric influenza by the following day , but this was the second occasion within a year that the health of the 67-year-old President — and the possible succession of Vice-President Dan Quayle — had become a major news issue [ see p. 38183 ] . |
| 15 | Stephen was the second resident at Hallerton House to die after experimenting with solvents . |
| 16 | It was the second day of athletics events of the Games of the XXIVth Olympiad . |
| 17 | Well I did hear that point , it 's , it 's interesting because in fact Lithuania er President Boris Yeltsin signed an agreement in July , er which effectively Russia recognise Lithuania as an independent state , it was the second country in the world to do that , er all of this was sorted out in a very er , good , er peaceful , sensible way , there , obviously Russia has concerns in Lithuania er not least the district . |
| 18 | In the ensuing proceedings the local authority were the applicants , W. 's aunt was first respondent since she had parental responsibilities concurrently with those of the local authority and W. was the second respondent by the Official Solicitor as her guardian ad litem . |
| 19 | The perspicacious reader will by now have decided that , if we accept the 1865 suppressed edition as the first , this American printing was the second issue of the first edition , since it was printed from the original setting of type . |
| 20 | We had better tell him nothing. , It was the second cover-up of the day . |
| 21 | This was the second part of the Conservative strategy . |
| 22 | The first part of the question that was asked by the hon. Member for Esher ( Mr. Taylor ) was in order , but the second part was out of order , as was the second part of the question asked by his hon. Friend the Member for Colne Valley ( Mr. Riddick ) . |
| 23 | Sorry , what was the second part of the question ? |
| 24 | It was the second shock of the tournament in 24 hours , following holder Steve Davis 's elimination by 192-ranked Irishman Fergal O'Brien . |
| 25 | Sweden was the second member of the European Free Trade Association ( EFTA — which was collectively seeking to negotiate a European economic area with the EC — see pp. 38307 ; this page ) to apply for EC membership , Austria having done so in July 1989 [ see p. 36822 ] . |
| 26 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 27 | As Lord Curzon points out , this was the second treaty to be signed at Erzerum . |
| 28 | Rose was the second generation in it , and she had taken it from a back street operation to a small , high class chain . |
| 29 | It was the second wave of arrests since an inquiry was launched in September . |
| 30 | It was the second winner of the annual Cricket Society book award . |