Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Businessmen are enjoying their first boom for ten years . |
| 2 | The couple are enjoying their first holiday together travelling around California in a caravan , according to German newspaper Bild . |
| 3 | SOME 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against fugitive city financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 4 | Page 30 Manx payouts : Some 4,000 depositors who lost £42m in one of Britain 's biggest bank crashes are to receive their first interim payment following an £11.7m judgment against City financier Jim Raper in the Manx Chancery Court yesterday . |
| 5 | With the sad death of their bass player David Mankaba behind them , the band are promoting their third LP , Absolute Jit , and hope their colourful music can bring a ray of sunshine to Darlington . |
| 6 | Bishop and his Welsh colleagues are seeking their first win over England in 18 years . |
| 7 | they 're broken My last one |
| 8 | They need to build a brick wall if they 're to claim their first win of the new year . |
| 9 | ‘ While you 're eating your last breakfast , I 'll make out your bill , ’ he concluded dismissively . |
| 10 | It 's mix and match at Chipping Norton , where they 're staging their first ever mixed fours . |
| 11 | ‘ You 're smoking my next six weeks ’ dole money , ’ I said , handing the second joint to Melanie . |
| 12 | They 're celebrating their twentieth birthday celebrations . |
| 13 | On March 28 , we 're holding our next coffee morning at Branksome Hall . |
| 14 | Our range of mortgages is designed to suit all incomes and needs — so whether you 're buying your first home , you 're on the move or you 're thinking of switching mortgages — we can find you an excellent mortgage deal . |
| 15 | If you 're buying your first home and your mortgage is £40,000* or above you could qualify for the following benefit : — . |
| 16 | We 're doing it next week ! |
| 17 | It has pretty much happened , we 're chasing its last desperate apologists down a hole of their own making . |
| 18 | McDonough has just been handed his third suspension of the season following his sending off offence at Rochdale last weekend , and he is prepared to take a back seat for much of the rest of this season — if not all of it . |
| 19 | Several ‘ big' names among the 44 booked are marking their first appearance at Foxhall in their new formula . |
| 20 | Many graduates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement period . |
| 21 | Many graduates and diplomates have in the past been offered their first permanent employment through contacts made during their industrial placement . |
| 22 | Oxfam , the charity founded by an Oxford University professor and a Church of England vicar , has been marking its 50th anniversary . |
| 23 | THE SEX PISTOLS are to play their first reunion show in the UK on a major outdoor site next year . |
| 24 | Cliftonville 's recent vein of rich form means Linfield need to win if they are to play their next Gold Cup fixture at Windsor . |
| 25 | At a ceremony attended by Chris Green , managing director of InterCity , locomotive 91003 which operates on the high-speed East Coast route will be given the name of this newspaper which has been celebrating its 175th anniversary . |
| 26 | By rights Swindon Town should have been celebrating their first win of the season on Saturday … what they have to do to win heaven knows … |
| 27 | If Storie , and possibly captain Bruce Russell , who made 20 , had gone on the attack a couple of overs earlier , the Scots might have been celebrating their first victory on South African soil . |
| 28 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 29 | A baby who defied the odds and survived despite being born sixteen weeks premature , has been celebrating her first birthday . |
| 30 | The Queen Mother has been celebrating her ninety-second birthday with a walkabout to meet more than a thousand well-wishers who had gathered outside Clarence House . |