Example sentences of "and it [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I took Fleck off and that did n't work so I took Le Saux off , put Eddie up front and he got a vital goal — and it 's the second time he 's done that for us . ’
2 Now cricket , and it 's the second day of Worcestershire 's match against the touring Australian side .
3 It 's here , it 's called Thirsty Camel and it 's the first spring water for men !
4 You do n't take a water tablet tomorrow and then you start this Inavase stuff and the first dose should be taken at night because the main potential side effect with the very first tablet , and it 's the first tablet only , is your blood pressure can go Oh down a bit .
5 And it 's the first one that traps you .
6 and it 's the first road on your right
7 And it 's the first time since you 're .
8 and I are off tomorrow and it 's the first day off that we 've had together you know , for
9 But I think we should , it 's like today , where was I , Battersea area , I think and it 's the first shop I 'd seen that actually had Chinese model manikins in the window , I thought they were sw pretty unusual .
10 Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems .
11 So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two .
12 ‘ I 've had a shoulder injury for the last three or four games and it 's the last thing you need when you are struggling to score your first goal .
13 You take the train from the middle of Liverpool , and it 's the last station , .
14 And it 's the last you 're going to get .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 ‘ We are her close friends and it is the last thing we would do .
21 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 .
22 Next week sees the anniversary of the battle and it is the 75th anniversary of the Air Force .
23 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 . ’
24 I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity .
25 And it was the first public result attributable to the second generation at Pininfarina , Pinin 's son Sergio and his brother-in-law , Renzo Carli . ’
26 Its most important role at the time , however , in common with other dual-purpose breeds , was in the production of first-class veal and yarded ‘ baby beef ’ ( slaughtered at less than 15 months old ) and it was the first breed to be used for this trade because of its early maturity .
27 The Lincoln Red 's breed society has a pioneering spirit : it was the first to introduce beef recording and it was the first to dehorn its breed deliberately , dropping its ‘ Shorthorn ’ tag by 1960 .
28 The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train .
29 Simon said , and it was the first time she had heard that name .
30 Their dining room that Christmas of 1850 was the scene of a sumptuous dinner attended by family and friends , and it was the first important one at which Sarah Byrne was allowed to serve .
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