Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The space between them is the third dimension . |
| 2 | What you could do with is labelling these so that , which one of them is the first question , sort of pie chart A if you like then pie chart , pie chart A and again if you 've got the total on , on your pie chart then you , you wo n't get confused will you ? |
| 3 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 4 | That victory of ours was the first to which they gave less than their usual measure of approval . |
| 5 | Amongst them are the last great wild gardens of the earth still harbouring uncatalogued varieties of creatures and man . |
| 6 | We 're going to play every night like it 's the last one . |
| 7 | They cling to their gang-of-lads-from-Oldham identity like it 's the last line of defence between them and the unthinkable horror of an interview with Melvyn Bragg . |
| 8 | Shut up Kim , it was alright like it was the first time |
| 9 | A good non-slip rubber bathmat with suction caps underneath it is the first essential . |
| 10 | I like going to bed with her when going to bed with me is the last thing she wants . |
| 11 | Our interview with her was the first news she had ever had that she had been the subject of a judgement summons . |
| 12 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 13 | the file is there , that 's a computer term , or exactly that , a l a , a listing of names , addresses and houses and cars and everything else , and a file is a defined computer term , what you do with it is the next thing |
| 14 | His strong and aggressive displays were a feature of Palace 's progress back to Division Two , but his playing career was brought to a premature end by a troublesome eye complaint and his final match with us was the 6th round FA Cup-tie against Leeds ( 0–3 ) on 10 March 1965 . |
| 15 | The f the nurse before me was the first one . |
| 16 | Just six weeks till the end of term because I 've got my books for six weeks and they 've used , date stamped in them is the last day of term ca n't be bad can it ? |
| 17 | Blessings from you are the last thing this pious little tsatskeleh needs . ’ |
| 18 | But the figure that stood before her was the last she had expected to see . |
| 19 | tragic that 's a good word to start from it 's the first thing they 're gon na look at after the headline so it 's pretty important that that the first word , I think looting was an excellent choice here . |
| 20 | That 's , my one , I do n't know how you 'd ever get over it , but that 's my one criticism of the thing is that sometimes when you walk in it 's the first thing that hits you and unless people are dancing it creates a cold atmosphere . |
| 21 | The sugar plantations and the slaves on them were the first British overseas investment of any size , at a time when investment of this sort was unusual , and in several eighteenth-century wars the British fought to defend this property , though it was not a central cause of any of the wars in which they were involved . |
| 22 | She picked up her book and began reading , making a show of turning the pages so that he was left in no doubt that his presence next to her was the last thing she needed . |
| 23 | The half-a-poster you sent to us was the FIRST half of a two-part poster which appeared in issue 79 of ZZAP ! |
| 24 | On Saturday they lost to Bath by 20 points to nil … and here 's a fact to blow your socks off it was the first time in 16 years and 420 games that the cherry and whites have failed to score at home |
| 25 | First I mind about it was the first zeppelin that came over . |
| 26 | Among them is the First World War poet , Wilfred Owen , who wrote the following lines , under the title , ‘ The Parable of the Old Man and the Young ’ . |
| 27 | The task for us is the second of these — the presentation of the ‘ inside ’ social world of the football fan and uncontrollable schoolchild . |
| 28 | Oxford have Aston Villa at the Manor on Wednesday … it 's all ticket … and tomorrow is your last chance to get one … the box office is open all day … do n't miss it … next for us is the third division where Hereford are having a hard time |
| 29 | The most important thing for us is the next song , ’ a sensible Tim relates before surging on in overdrive , ‘ I fuckin' love being in The Charlatans . |
| 30 | The most important thing for us is the next song , ’ a sensible Tim relates before surging on in overdrive , ‘ I fuckin' love being in The Charlatans . |