Example sentences of "it [be] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would it be the first time ? |
| 2 | This is not the first time that this issue has reached the public domain , or will it be the last time that the House is asked to focus on the rights and duties of citizens in circumstances — from time to time inevitable circumstances — when the interests of one individual or one set of individuals necessarily impinge on and potentially damage the interests of others . |
| 3 | In the evening they went walking , hand in hand , as if it were the first love for each of them . |
| 4 | yes , that 's right I think it were the first ones to come out |
| 5 | It were the first time I ever heard him do it . |
| 6 | The exchanges were exceptionally unfruitful because of Mr Berge 's way of delivering every reply as if it were the last word any resonable man would wish to hear on that particular matter . |
| 7 | Middlesbrough hope for a good crowd despite it being the third home game of the week . |
| 8 | It being the 30th October , His Majesty 's birthday , General Wade had given to each detachment an ox-feast and liquor ; six oxen were roasted whole , one at the head of each party . |
| 9 | It 's the first foot clinic of it 's kind in the country , dealing with what 's now called podiatry , formerly chiropody ; bunions , ingrowing toenails , sports injuries and the like . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's the first chance everyone has had to work together with the technology , and it shows . |
| 12 | It 's the first chance I 've had of spending a couple of months at home , leading a normal life and just doing things that are interesting to do . |
| 13 | Er , we had a breeders ' meeting in October which was I enjoy them very much , I enjoy the the talk because it 's the first chance I get during the year when I can sit down and listen and I do n't have to worry about them generally , in another club , I do n't have to worry about minutes or anything , I just sit and listen and it 's great it , I really enjoy that . |
| 14 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 15 | It 's the first school in Scotland to receive permission from the government to become self-governing and has raised deep concerns in the local community . |
| 16 | It 's the first session when they have actually identified some of the strands that you are going to pursue and then subsequently looking is framed by that decision . |
| 17 | Well I mean it 's the first position ever of such sort . |
| 18 | Ah so it 's the first person who spells sex maniac |
| 19 | It 's the first question I 'd ask . ’ |
| 20 | I mean the book itself is just published last , er Thursday I believe it was , and er so it was up to date , is up to date until the summer , which is you know more up to date than any other book , so it 's got things like : Greta Garbo dying , and Princess Eugenie being born and Nelson Mandela being free , and of course it 's the first encyclopaedia to have all the details of nineteen eighty nine , the , the upheaval in , in Europe , all the political changes and whatever . |
| 21 | It 's the first occasion in fact on which I 've been permitted to speak at any meeting dealing with this application . |
| 22 | The other thing on that sort of erm side is that this is the first survey which we 've had since we started doing the survey in nineteen eighty eight when the first numbers were compiled , it 's the first survey which we 've had where the majority of regions ' manufacturers say that their unit costs have already fallen , erm we have n't seen that before , so the majority of regions said that the costs had fallen . |
| 23 | " It 's the first turn off the Al42 after you leave Gibbet 's Cross . |
| 24 | It 's the first patrol of its kind outside an inner city area and was created after a spate of thefts at the hospital.Ian MacLaren reports . |
| 25 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |
| 26 | Er you 're going to be busy tomorrow because it 's the first day of the conference is n't it . |
| 27 | When it is the first day , put your hands down while we 're ex while I 'm explaining this , when you say when it 's the first day of any month whether it 's the first of February or the first of April or the first of December , instead of say you say this word you say for the first of the month |
| 28 | But it 's the first day of the rest of my life when I get out there . |
| 29 | and I are off tomorrow and it 's the first day off that we 've had together you know , for |
| 30 | It 's the first day I 've been with them and I thought I do n't know . |