Example sentences of "[unc] [num ord] [noun sg] be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company 's first problem was with the ASICs which proved six months late . |
| 2 | This project 's first concern is with the classification and analysis of unemployment in France and the UK . |
| 3 | The party leader 's first call was on the John Kyrle High School at Ross on Wye in the Hereford parliamentary constituency . |
| 4 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 5 | It was a heavy fall and Rain 's first thought was for the nervous old woman who lived in the flat below . |
| 6 | By the afternoon of 4 August , leading formations of Kluck 's First Army were before the great city of Liège , with its ring of six major and six minor forts . |
| 7 | Lucy 's first impression was of the robe that she wore ; it was either silk or satin , she could n't be certain . |
| 8 | After marrying one woman from the landed gentry and another from the people , Cecil 's third marriage was from the high ranks of the peerage . |
| 9 | Scaffolder Watson 's last job was on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 10 | It was agreed that the receivers ' first duty was to the secured creditors . |