Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accounts survive from over 50 collieries within this period , the earliest series dates from the mid-fifteenth century but the great majority are from the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Around one quartr of the children in this study were below the third percentile for weight suggesting an association between cryptosporidiosis and failure to thrive , as described in other centres . |
| 3 | A major industry initiative was launched by the HCIMA at its annual lunch last month when several operating companies and educational institutes , including Compass , Forte , Copthorne Hotels , Universities of Brighton and Surrey and Chichester College were among the first signatories of a new Charter agreement which will strengthen employer/education links within the industry . |
| 4 | The entry is from the first floor . |
| 5 | All of them had safely negotiated Becher 's for the second time . |
| 6 | 1980 ) and onset is during the second half of the first year of life . |
| 7 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 8 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 9 | Since in all the investments considered the entire outlay is in the first year , it is already a present value . |
| 10 | Inside , the roof is of the nineteenth century but the fresco painting on the walls is one of the oldest decorative schemes in Germany , dating from c. 1000 . |
| 11 | But the font is of the twelfth century , so there was a church here then ; and deep in the churchyard to the east of the chancel is a buried wall which is perhaps the east wall of a Saxon church . |
| 12 | She took the torch , using it freely now because speed was of the first importance , and stealth of none at all , and went on down the slippery path towards the thick box hedge , behind which the invisible red roof hung , representing help and companionship . |
| 13 | The Headmaster 's Study was on the first floor next to Four . |
| 14 | The entrance was on the second deck , a large double door now wide open that Delaney remembered from before , thinking at the time that it led to a storage area . |
| 15 | As the Vice-chairman , who was re-elected , was also deaf , the two elected leaders of the BDA were for the first time deaf . |
| 16 | erm The second leg of the Radio Oxford yankee is in the sixth race , this is the second quarter final of the Pall Mall , and here I 'm going to go erm for Social Circle in trap one erm trained by Linda Mullins at Walthamstow , a perfect trap draw for this erm Edinburgh Cup winner , he 's won erm fifteen thousand in prize money . |
| 17 | If your elderly parent is in the second category , this event always provides a valuable opportunity for the family to make every kind of affectionate and celebratory gesture that says , ‘ We 're glad you 're still around ’ . |
| 18 | The work of the Hague Conference on Private International Law is of the first importance in this area . |
| 19 | The entrance to the gallery is from the first floor . |
| 20 | That was once a week the bread , we used to have to collect the bread from Road , there was a small office at the side of the Infirmary I believe it was Mr or something like that , but we used to have to go to this office in Road and collect this four pound loaf every Wednesday and you did n't get another issue you had it all at once , so we had four four pound loaves , so we did n't know what new bread was after the first day , I 've never ate so much bread pudding in my life as I did then with a and er |
| 21 | Meeting are on the last Tuesday of the month at 8pm . |
| 22 | Scientists talk in terms of ‘ generations ’ of computers , and the most advanced of the machines in operation at the moment are of the fourth generation . |
| 23 | Its lessening and perhaps even virtual disappearance in some cases as a culturally-marked developmental period is of the first importance and is one of the most disquieting symptoms of modern social change . |
| 24 | Today , this Greek Cypriot author is in the eleventh day of a hunger strike . |
| 25 | Christopher 's dead body is in the next room . |
| 26 | The overall picture is of the first generation harbouring little interest in sport , apart from horse racing ! |
| 27 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 28 | Your room 's on the first floor . ’ |
| 29 | Our room is on the first floor . |
| 30 | Her sitting room is on the fourth floor , but there is a lift . |