Example sentences of "[coord] it is the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 2 | There were three men named Robert Bindloss , and it is the first Sir Robert , a famous character , who is of particular interest in this context because of his fame in the wool trade . |
| 3 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 4 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 5 | Second column , and it is the second paragraph , where it says to provide contingency plans to improve seven section , seventeen budget by two hundred thousand pounds . |
| 6 | ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do . |
| 7 | Classical theory , as applied in Butler Machine Tool Co Ltd v Ex-Cell-O Corpn ( England ) Ltd [ 1979 ] 1 WLR 401 , would suggest a mirror image rule , namely , each proffering of standard terms is a counter-offer , and it is the last document proffered which embodies the final offer when the recipient accepts by acting upon it . |
| 8 | Next week sees the anniversary of the battle and it is the 75th anniversary of the Air Force . |
| 9 | Lord Aldington replied : ‘ This will be the hundredth time you say what I 've said is a lie , and it is the hundredth time you have made me very angry . ’ |
| 10 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 11 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 12 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 13 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 14 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 15 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 16 | Later , Fiat issued a statement saying it had learned of the arrests ‘ with great astonishment ’ but it is the second time the company has been involved in the ongoing scandal . |
| 17 | Important changes will also take place in economic affairs , but it is the next Parliament that will matter . |
| 18 | But it is the third News At Ten marriage to hit the rocks in recent months . |