Example sentences of "it is [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 2 | The brightest star in it is of the seventh magnitude , and is orange , with a K-type spectrum . |
| 3 | Normally it is of the second magnitude , just about equal to the Pole Star , but every 2½ days it gives a long , slow wink , taking four hours to fade down below the third magnitude and remaining at minimum for a mere 20 minutes before starting to recover — after which nothing more happens for the next 2½ days . |
| 4 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
| 5 | It is above the eighth magnitude , and is visible with × 7 , though only as a dim blur ; its real distance is 69000 light-years , so that it is much further away than the brighter globular clusters such as M13 Herculis and Omega Centauri . |
| 6 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 7 | The physical act of training breaks down part of the muscle exercised , and it is during the next 24–72 hours that the muscles recover and begin to grow . |
| 8 | He served for three years , originally as chairman , and it is as the first chairman of the future Labour party that he achieved his principal prominence in labour history . |
| 9 | The nearest naked-eye star to the pole is Sigma Octantis , but as it is below the fifth magnitude it will be hidden by mist or moonlight . |
| 10 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |
| 11 | It is from the third movement of the ‘ Lützow ’ Piano Concerto , k242 , and shows accentual emphasis put into sharp focus in a pattern of clear stroke over the first , dots over the following quavers — a pattern repeated a number of times in exactly the same manner . |
| 12 | It is from the last line of this work that the LNWR coined the name for their locomotive . |
| 13 | It is in the second half , when Helena becomes a quasi-symbolic force for life and renewal that Patricia Kerrigan 's performance comes into its own . |
| 14 | It is in the second part of the book that Yockey extends this theory to problems in molecular biology . |
| 15 | If we take the ‘ developing countries ’ as a group , compared with the ‘ more developed countries ’ , infant mortality ( in the first year ) is more than five times as high in the first group as it is in the second ; but during the years from one to four — that is , after weaning — the mortality rate in the developing countries is forty times as high as elsewhere : forty deaths for every thousand children surviving their first year , compared with one per thousand in the more developed areas ( Pate , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | Coleridge recognises the power and excitement of this world , but it is in the second stanza , when he delves into the folds of this metaphorical brain that we see him striving to express the very essence of creativity . |
| 17 | It is in the first place striking that in the Old French fabliaux , a male rival or spoiler is more commonly the butt of the humour than a female , though examples of the latter situation are reasonably numerous . |
| 18 | It is in the last hundred years or so that theories have been advanced to justify critical or art historical practice , the creation of such theories being made more urgent in the last fifty years by a struggle to establish and then uphold the status of art history as an academic discipline . |
| 19 | The shift of leadership to John Smith may seem temporarily convincing , but it is in the last analysis cosmetic . |
| 20 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
| 21 | It is in the next stage , from the age of about twelve years , that children develop the skills of formal thought and logical reasoning . |
| 22 | But it is like the first scenario in this : both kinds of eroticism are specific to male bonding , both occur within and against the very situations in which heterosexuality is most ardently pursued , and both are in part the consequence of heterosexual ardour . |