Example sentences of "[be] the tenth " in BNC.

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1 It seems to have been the tenth raid which did the greatest damage , when the ‘ sea island , with its H-jetty was hit and a Korean tanker loading there set on fire .
2 So my two days are the tenth
3 He must be the tenth this week .
4 If we looked at erm the week commencing seventh of February as being the two days out that would be from the ninth er that would be the tenth and the eleventh of February .
5 Some of my theories have fallen to pieces , including the nine-nation European Common Market being the ten-horned beast , with the Vatican , of course , being the tenth state .
6 This is in spite of 1992 being the tenth anniversary of shareware 's conception — not that far behind the IBM PC itself .
7 The Bentleys were the tenth set of prospective purchasers whom he had shown round the house .
8 This is the tenth time that the Tour has visited Brussels .
9 Erm Susan is the seventeenth of August nineteen eighty two and John is the tenth November erm er nineteen eighty four .
10 This window is the tenth to be restored and has cost around fourteen thousand pounds to repair .
11 Father Mark Jabale is the tenth Abbot of Belmont .
12 It is the tenth time since last April that his store has been broken into .
13 It 's the tenth then .
14 It 's the tenth time already this year Thames Valley Police have dealt with an offence where a member of the public 's been threatened with a gun .
15 Dad it 's the tenth of
16 One , two , three , four , five , six , seven , eight , nine , who 's the tenth ?
17 He was the tenth child of the retired army captain and professional horse artist Charles Lutyens , and his beautiful Irish wife Mary .
18 This , alas , was the tenth time — the freak one that you hope will happen to someone else , while you gasp at poker 's infinite potential for cruelty .
19 This meant that the subject was Making Notes ; that it was the third draft ( for other drafts were lying about ) ; and that it was the tenth manuscript page of that draft .
20 The year 1992 was the tenth warmest year on record , according to the meteorological office of the University of East Anglia 's Climatic Research Unit , confirming the overall trend of global warming .
21 ‘ It was the tenth birthday of my youngest brother , ’ says R Patchett , of Marmaduke Street , Spennymoor .
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