Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 If asked to recall a date such a person will proceed by inference rather than by a direct introspective search , e.g. ‘ it can not be next week but it must be within the next month ’ or ‘ this kind of event is always on a Tuesday ’ and so on .
2 It might be for the last time . ’
3 Oxford Cheetahs will be racing next season … the bad news it 'll be in the second division without the stars
4 High Wycombe and Eccles could be earlier than the latter , as they are datable to before c. 175 A.D. , whereas it could be of the third century .
5 Tonight , if the bombers came , it would be for the seventh night in a row ; a whole week without sleep .
6 But , in general , it would be for the third party surety to satisfy itself whether or not it should enter into the bond and to satisfy itself about the accuracy of representations made by the debtor .
7 She knew that if she were whirled down again it would be for the last time .
8 As no great lover of period instruments for Beethoven sonatas , I anticipated that it would be in the second in D minor ( the only one of the three to betray the darkness from which it grew in 1802 ) that I would be most aware of limited powers of expression .
9 This is my speech , not the hon. Gentleman 's , and I warn him that if I give way now it will be for the last time .
10 Otherwise it will be on the second syllable .
11 Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National .
12 It may not look it now , but I think it will be over the next five years .
13 If Britain follows the policies and approaches set out by the right hon. Gentleman , it will be in the second division in the Community .
14 It guesses it will be in the fourth quarter .
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