Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] was [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second plea was to the regime for ‘ clear and convincing steps ’ towards putting the country on a just , democratic and socialist course . |
| 2 | The second day was in the survival tank in Lowestoft College . |
| 3 | The second night was at the McKenzie hut , beautifully sited by a lake in a steep valley . |
| 4 | The second outing was from the car park on Chalk Hill . |
| 5 | The second occasion was in the mid-1980s when the Bank had to step in after banks and discount houses failed to complete London Clear , a project to automate settlements and transactions in the money markets . |
| 6 | His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead . |
| 7 | The second doubt was about the cost . |
| 8 | The Reform movement of the eleventh century was behind the building up of the college of cardinals and its privileges . |
| 9 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 10 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 11 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 12 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 13 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 14 | The first change was in the means test itself . |
| 15 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 16 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 17 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 18 | After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister . |
| 19 | Bunter , whose first appearance was in the Magnet comic in 1908 , was last seen on television in the 1950s , with Gerald Campion in the title role . |
| 20 | Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited . |
| 21 | The first marketplace was on the site of Široká Street . |
| 22 | The first occasion was in the wake of the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement of 1938 . |
| 23 | At this place the terrace was inaccessible , being several feet below the level of the room , and her first glimpse was of the back of a dark head down below . |
| 24 | Seona Dancing : First gig was in the bar of University College , London . |
| 25 | The first performance was at the Leeds Festival that year . |
| 26 | Their first success was with the Rostam field , close to Qatar 's offshore terminal at Halul . |
| 27 | The party leader 's first call was on the John Kyrle High School at Ross on Wye in the Hereford parliamentary constituency . |
| 28 | Her own first excavation was at the Devil 's Tower , Gibraltar , where she found Neanderthal skull fragments . |
| 29 | It did n't seem likely : the first floor was in the roof itself with sloping outside walls and few places to hang pictures . |
| 30 | His first concern was for the children . |