Example sentences of "is [verb] a [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the circle is placed a second circle with a small window , the size of a picture . |
| 2 | Mr McLean , with a little help from Conservative candidate Mr David Williamson , has the small matter of a 7,035 majority to overturn if he is to enjoy a second ‘ retirement ’ on April 9 , 1992 . |
| 3 | SQUEAKY voiced Lene Lovich , who hit the pop charts 13 years ago with a bizarre song called Lucky Number and whose dancing debut three years later , as Mata Hari , was received less kindly , is pursuing a third career — as a novelist . |
| 4 | One MP , Tewfiq Assaf ( Druze member of the ‘ National Struggle Front ’ from Aley ) is demanding a second parliamentary chamber in Lebanon to extend political power to the Druze — a Druze , he maintains , should be the speaker of this new parliamentary chamber . |
| 5 | " Chaucer " is the only interrupted character who is made to take the opportunity to tell a second tale , although the Monk , too , in this same fragment , is given a second chance . |
| 6 | T IS programmed a second data pack , in a language the Psion understands , to handle the information . |
| 7 | SCOTTISH Amicable is to launch a second Capital Guarantee Bond , following the success of the first one which took in £22.5 million following its launch last October . |
| 8 | The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism . |
| 9 | The Body being thus equipp 'd and laid in the Coffin ( which Coffin is sometimes very magnificent ) , it is visited a second time to see that it is bury 'd in Flannel , and that nothing about it sowed with Thread . |
| 10 | Another option is to create a second segment ring similar to the first and reverse it , or it can be attached to a vertical ring if depth is desired . |
| 11 | He is writing a second book with his mind guru , Dr Robin Skynner , and is the subject of a major biography about to be published . |
| 12 | A more practical method of transporting the unit up the line is to utilise a second kiteline . |
| 13 | Elisabeth Valley is presenting a first solo exhibition by Sébastien De Ganay , whose paintings incorporate jetsam of various kinds . |
| 14 | The Royal Shakespeare Company is paying a first visit to Durham City but not to tread the boards . |
| 15 | It is called A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics ( 1980 ) . |
| 16 | Another option is to use a breadth-first approach . |
| 17 | One possible solution is to use a depth-first approach . |
| 18 | YOUNG mum Angie Wilson is praying for a speedy end to her homeless heartache for she is expecting a third baby in just nine weeks time . |
| 19 | Carol , 24 , has two children ; Charlene , seven , and Christopher , three , and is expecting a third in October . |
| 20 | FOLLOWING the success of three previous seminars Liverpool Chamber of Commerce is holding a fourth talk shop on trading with the former East Germany . |
| 21 | This scale , which can be looked upon either as mode 4 of a major scale ( eg. G major starting from C , or a C major scale with a ♯4th ) , or the major scale that is found a 5th higher than the root of the chord that you want to play it against . |
| 22 | Debra Priest , of Haroldswick , Unst , who is starting a first year HNC course in business administration at the Shetland College of Further Education ; |
| 23 | AI urges King Jigme to release the last remaining known prisoner of conscience , Tek Nath Rizal , who is starting a third year in detention without trial at Wangdi Phodrang Prison . |
| 24 | Sally Lescher 's Conservation Management is giving a first exhibition in London to Glaswegian portraitist , John Boyd ( to 24 July ) , whose thickly brushed nude studies and landscapes have won admiration in Scotland . |
| 25 | The policy behind Article 35 is to protect a third party from undesired obligations and to make that party 's consent the basis of any such obligations . |
| 26 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 27 | The next step is to furnish a first draft of the proposed order and to settle the draft in due course , and in drawing the order the agent has particular regard to the value of precedents and a number of model clauses promulgated by the model clauses committee in parliament . |
| 28 | An alternative is to build a second tree consisting of the words in the compounds , i.e. a ‘ compound tree ’ . |
| 29 | It is believed a third man drove the getaway car , a red Ford Escort XR3 , which made off towards Horrocks Avenue . |
| 30 | As I write , Washington is taking a second look at a once-derided theory , which maintains that the Reagan-Bush campaign made a private deal with Iran in 1980 ; the Iranians keeping the American hostages until after the election and the Reaganites rewarding them with heavy weapons as the price of Jimmy Carter 's pelt . |