Example sentences of "be [adv] [num] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 2 | Share prices are determined by supply and demand and anticipatory and speculative factors , and the expected earnings of a company are only one of a number of factors which influence investors . |
| 3 | But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system . |
| 4 | Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes . |
| 5 | There are only 200 in the wild at the most , yet 1000 are registered in zoos around the world . |
| 6 | Hereford are only two off the bottom of the third division now after slipping up at Gillingham … their defence was well beaten by the opening goal from Arnott … |
| 7 | There are a number of cases of this kind , and I would point out that air and rail journeys are only two of a number of service benefits which have a number of problems attached to them . |
| 8 | There are only three to the south porch . |
| 9 | Yes , two months ago she had been just one of the Pinehurst girls , and today she was the owner of a house and faced with the double problem of looking after her sister and providing a means of livelihood for them both . |
| 10 | She had been just fifteen at the time , and had agreed with him heartily . |
| 11 | We are already two-thirds of the way through our stay in Peking , and by the time this letter reaches you we may well be getting ready to leave for Sian . |
| 12 | The answer is that the new identities are just one of a number of changes taking place in higher education . |
| 13 | Top Cajun Band The Flatville Aces are just one of the host of outfits on parade at the Farnham Folk on April 26th . |
| 14 | After all , Wang Laboratories Inc and Prime Computer Inc are just two of a string of companies that have opened and later closed in the south of Ireland , but Amdahl Corp is still there , Intel Corp is investing heavily and expanding , 3Com Corp and Cabletron Systems Inc are among the new arrivals , and several other chipmakers are still doing assembly and Sun Microsystems Inc has just followed ICL Plc and Sema Group Plc in establishing software development operations in the Dublin area . |
| 15 | His autobiography , Living Dangerously , and his book about the discovery of Ubar , Atlantis of the Sands , are just two of a string of best-sellers he has written about his adventures . |
| 16 | David and Scott Lloyd are just two of the father/son partnerships who will be competing in the national finals at Quietwaters Hotel , Golf and Country Club later this month ( 24th–28th Feb ) . |
| 17 | Erasure and Cher are just two among the onslaught of Greatest Hits which has begun to assault us as marketing replaces music in the run-up to Christmas . |
| 18 | The Good news is that we 're now 4 in the table |
| 19 | They 're about six from the bottom ai n't they ? |
| 20 | But for every two up-and-coming clubs that make the grade , there are always two on the way down . |
| 21 | They are both 19 at the time , and if there 's anything in the world that 's sweeter than being 19 when you 're 37 , it 's being 19 in a street full of whores and dirty bookshops and Chinese restaurants . |
| 22 | ‘ Now they are nearly two-thirds of the way to the South Pole , ’ says MS Society spokesman David Harrison . |
| 23 | And you would have been about seven at the time . |
| 24 | Apparently for every one serious fire in a royal palace , there are about 38,000 in the nation 's schools . |
| 25 | You are now one of the committee member and the certainly put on productions in Lewes , but also at the Gardner Centre . |
| 26 | There are now 425 in the country , but they provide only one place for every 300 children under five years of age . |
| 27 | No , I did n't , I 'm only one of the spokespeople . |
| 28 | I have a strong interest in languages , and although now we are trying to teach more languages in school , even in primary schooling , I do n't feel that within er my , I 'm only eighteen at the moment , by the time I 'm twenty five things still wo n't have came far enough along for me to utilize this skill . |
| 29 | Implicit in these views was the fact that child abuse was considered to be only one of a range of problems that many families who come under the system 's microscope were experiencing , and that there was a need to respond to all the problems including child abuse , rather than of necessity giving it priority . |
| 30 | It can be quite painful , for the insider is studying his own social navel , with the potential always present that he will recognize this to be only one of a number of arbitrary possibilities and perhaps also find that many practices are built on the flimsiest of moral precepts . |