Example sentences of "being [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although there are no August records , the species has been recorded in September , the earliest report being for the seventh in 1951 and 1974 . |
| 2 | The Wyllies have owned and managed the firm since then , the present owner being of the fourth generation . |
| 3 | Although the South Downs were cleared at a very early stage in man 's history in Britain , the clearing of the Wealden forest was delayed until the medieval period , the height of the clearance being in the 13th and 14th centuries , although parts may have been cleared as early as the ninth century . |
| 4 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 5 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 6 | I recall being in the first class and er a teacher coming to me , as I were n't paying much attention I think , and to this day I shall remember and never forget , she just folded my arms in front of me and says , Percy , you 're not listening , you 'll have to have a rest . |
| 7 | If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place . |
| 8 | During that time we won it 3 times despite being in the second division for half that time . |
| 9 | er , if the whole there in the sixth line refers back to the whole of being in the fourth line then it would be erm not the one but intellect . |
| 10 | They are also incorporated into internal filters and external filters ; and provide the water moving power for the most advanced trickle or wet and dry filters ( which are usually gravity-fed , the pump being in the last section to return the water . ) |
| 11 | And it is possible to note , as Max Weber does , a sort of transitional phase in the movement towards a fully-fledged modernity that comes into being in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries . |
| 12 | Being on the 46th floor , I threw the curtains wide open to enjoy this unusual event , took a shower and casually sauntered back into my room stark naked — only to see a man outside my window ! |
| 13 | The Council came into being on the 8th May 1931 and we have marked our Diamond Jubilee Year with several special events throughout Scotland , and these are described on pages 6 and 7 of this report . |
| 14 | Records for 1930 and 1931 are scant , but during 1930 Bill achieved his sixth hole-in-one , on the former short 17th , his third at Henley , the others being on the 2nd and 4th . |
| 15 | I seem to have it down as being on the 30th March . |
| 16 | The coming into being over the last 30 years of the political communities of Scotland , Wales , women , Afro-Caribbeans , Asians , Muslims , — each of these is premised on a freshly ‘ discovered ’ history of violence . |
| 17 | Both the Borough and Health Authority have supported the work of ACET in Ealing by being among the first to provide financial support . |
| 18 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |
| 19 | Seabirds were badly affected , with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die . |
| 20 | After being among the first of the former Soviet republics to fight to free itself from the embrace of Moscow , it has now come full circle with the recognition that it must look East as well as West for its own benefit . |
| 21 | Of the hedgerow shrubs which still hold fruits , the hips of the various species of rose may well be the most obvious , often being among the last fruits to be eaten by hungry wintering thrushes . |
| 22 | The abdominal aspect of the sacrum in males displays a uniform curve with the deepest part of the hollow at the third segment ; whereas in females , the upper portion is flattened and the lower portion sharply angulated ( the deepest part being at the fourth segment ) . |
| 23 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 24 | In the normal way , a pregnant woman would go for regular check-ups either with her doctor or with the ante-natal clinic , the first visit being around the eighth to twelfth week . |