Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll tell you what , ’ he said , ‘ you can have it for £60 as that 's the last size 10 I 've got , and I 've got to pack up in a minute and it 's raining . |
| 2 | Shame on me for this is the first issue of SR I 've ever read ( Nov ) , but I hope it will not be the last , for may I say , I think I may have at last found a space where I can be heard — most women 's magazines shun the type of letter I submit — not cosy enough for their letters pages , I suspect . |
| 3 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 4 | Likewise , most closures by multi-plant firms in ‘ assisted areas ’ after 1977 were the first closures by the respective firms in this country and in that product heading . |
| 5 | The campaign was to no avail : the 90% grant was never received and the District 's Annual Report for 1960–61 was the last to mention the issue . |
| 6 | Section 64 of the Act of 1986 is the first section of Chapter VI which deals with the powers of intervention exercisable directly by the S.I.B . |
| 7 | The Cabinet formed in the reshuffle of Ministers in the autumn of 1985 was the first since the war to contain no women ( apart from the Prime Minister herself ) . |
| 8 | The Islington Crime Survey ( ICS ) of 1985 was the first study to focus solely on an inner city area According to the Department of the Environment Islington is the seventh most deprived area of England and the fifth worst area where housing is concerned . |
| 9 | An example of this is the second sentence of |
| 10 | The warrant boom of 1987–89 was the last phase of a long period of dramatic change for Japanese companies and their bankers . |
| 11 | Around the mid century the new complex fashion comes in from East Greece , but later than the first of these is the last of the old , the exquisite ‘ Peplos kore ’ ( 679 , fig. 39 ) . |
| 12 | The most famous of these was the first , at Greenham Common . |
| 13 | This is in spite of 1992 being the tenth anniversary of shareware 's conception — not that far behind the IBM PC itself . |
| 14 | And perhaps best of all is the 19th hole , for if you ignore ( and it 's hard ! ) the hospitality of the Golf Academy , Seefeld is full of cafés , beer kellars and superb restaurants . |
| 15 | The greatest ‘ catch ’ of all is the first recorded breeding in Britain of the little bittern . |
| 16 | Most difficult of all is the third problem , since the present manual system of serial control makes it impossible for up-to-date information about periodicals to be made available either in the Issue Hall or at other service points . |
| 17 | But the most pathetic of all was the fourth widow , Mrs Shepman , aged eighty and in poor health , who lived as a lodger . |
| 18 | Jamaica , where the first railway of 1845 was the first in the British colonial empire , was provided with a diverse group of wonderfully eccentric stations . |
| 19 | The oil price rise of 1973 was the first . |
| 20 | The Education Bill of 1987 is the first ever piece of legislation to restrict the powers of local education authorities . |
| 21 | La Fille Mal Gardée of 1789 was the first ballet to display the lives and loves of peasants and farmers . |
| 22 | It was the first of the total rejections of a previous régime which sent the supporters of that régime into exile , and the exiles of 1814 were the first representatives of a phenomenon typical of Spanish politics throughout the nineteenth century : ‘ a trans-Pyrenean colony ’ with no alternative but to plot the overthrow of the government by revolution . |
| 23 | The shortfall was mainly a consequence of low output over the last two years of the war ; and the harsh winter of 1946/7 was the last straw . |
| 24 | The Indian Mutiny of 1857 was the first of many rebellions which gradually transformed British attitudes to the non-white world . |
| 25 | Pound and Clements ' Phytogeography of Nebraska of 1898 became a standard text for American botany , and Clements ' Research Methods in Ecology of 1905 was the first textbook to describe the new methodology . |
| 26 | But er , I never heard of them if they did and er , I mean I , I used to involve meself not in politics or anything like that is the last thing I ever thought of involving meself in but er , I did er , sort er , well being on the milk round you used to see the people in , because they come to door to bring a jug you see and you , you talk to people and you know they were , er were sensible and they were , were should I say soft or had no er conversation at all like , you know . |
| 27 | Prior to 1924 it was men only , then when ladies began to have short hair , a curtain was put across the shop and behind this was the third chair where Mr. Yeates , Tommy 's recently acquired partner began operating on the female sex . |
| 28 | Of the 24 shareholders Haug & Co. now held 9¾ shares having released 1¼ since 1564 ; Sir William Cecill with 2 was the second major shareholder . |
| 29 | Gorbachev 's report to the 27th CPSU Congress in 1986 was the first in modern times to make no reference to the need to assist ‘ national liberation ’ movements in the developing countries ; rather , the Soviet leader appeared to favour a ‘ comprehensive system of international security ’ involving ‘ the use for the welfare of the world community , above all of the developing countries , of part of the funds that [ would ] be released as a result of the reduction in military budgets ’ . |
| 30 | The drama of the space race derives very largely from this being the last wilderness left . |