Example sentences of "[adv] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 2 | Many sea-green incorruptibles will be there , but might this commercial fair be the first harbinger of green over-kill ? |
| 3 | There was also still a feeling in the Hollywood colony that as he had established himself as a star he should not play an unattractive character , and , what is more , he would only be the second lead and not appear for the first twenty minutes . |
| 4 | It will only be the fourth year before the accounts go back to independent examination . |
| 5 | Much better is the next game |
| 6 | So is the next . |
| 7 | The chick inside is the first of its species to be incubated in captivity . |
| 8 | As the Lord Mayor Albert was also returning officer on the night and so was the first to see the result . |
| 9 | Because so was the last lump , hard and then it was like you know ? |
| 10 | He had lent his telephone to a colleague , and so was the last to leave the Press box as he transmitted his Rangers-Celtic match report . |
| 11 | So was the next one . |
| 12 | So was the next . |
| 13 | The original Home Alone was the third biggest box office release in the history of the cinema where it was seen by 6 million people . |
| 14 | Insensitive handling of cash-flow by Accounts might just be the last straw to turn a key person away from you when you need him or her the most . |
| 15 | So I do n't think there will be a big national impact , it 'll just be the last few people coming in at the tail end . |
| 16 | By rights , Razorblade Smile could easily be the Next Big Thing . |
| 17 | Analysis of the sequence of this gene reveals that it is most closely related to Oct-1 and Oct-2 and thus is the third member of the POU class II family isolated . |
| 18 | And tonight is the first time the two girls have ever gone past the ground floor . |
| 19 | So , what exactly is the next step , now you have these interim results ? |
| 20 | Simon away was the first young man all over again , a hundred times worse . |
| 21 | I made 27 calls to Central Office , of which the best was the last . |
| 22 | I wish tonight was the first night . ’ |
| 23 | The first owner of the right is the designer unless the design is created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment in which cases the commissioner or the employer respectively are the first owners of the right , subject to any written agreement to the contrary . |
| 24 | Poland has always been the first non-Soviet WTO state to receive front line equipment from the USSR . |
| 25 | In this respect Excel has always been the first of the Windows spreadsheet , and incorporated much of the ease of use that Windows offered . |
| 26 | In fact it had always been the last thing on his mind . |
| 27 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 28 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 29 | They 'd hardly been the first , he reflected . |
| 30 | Today , McRae was chasing lost time and ended up driving into a ditch , but will still be the first British driver home . |