Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
| 2 | In his early days at Highbury he was painfully aware of being labelled the first £10,000 footballer . |
| 3 | Now a flurry of articles have suggested that the Sutherland mountain is on the point of being re-designated the 278th Munro . |
| 4 | He was to be joined the next day by his mistress , Felicity . |
| 5 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 6 | According to this law , if a response made in the presence of a particular stimulus is followed by a reward , that same response is more likely to be made the next time the stimulus is encountered . |
| 7 | Saturday 's abandoned match at Morley will probably have to be played the next week , followed by the trip to Liverpool St Helens on the final Saturday of the season . |
| 8 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 9 | According to the report five officers had planned to use two military helicopters to bomb the headquarters during a joint meeting of government ministers and the Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) to discuss the austerity measures to be announced the next day . |
| 10 | Then he had to remember that even after the rounds had been allocated and the stetches accounted for , he still had to include the acre or so of headland , the land on the outside of the field where the ploughs turned , which had to be ploughed the last of all . ’ |
| 11 | She was sitting up in bed learning the chant which was to be tested the next day . |
| 12 | She had fully expected to be dismissed the next morning , but nothing was said and she did n't ask . |
| 13 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 14 | News of these defeats was received by telegram at Saint Cloud on the night of 4 — 5 August , to be followed the next day by news of two further defeats at the battles of Reichshoffen and Forbach . |
| 15 | On day three all the butterflies were dead as was one angel , to be followed the next day by the other . |
| 16 | The nets are released at dusk , and drift with the ocean 's currents and winds , fishing the rich top 15 metres ( 50 feet ) of the sea , to be retrieved the next day . |
| 17 | The actual wedding was to be held the next day , and then Changez and Jamila would stay at the Ritz for a couple of nights . |
| 18 | Leroy Burns was rebuking a demonstrator , who had arrived to take part in a rally to be held the next day against racism and the National Young Conservatives . |
| 19 | It is hoped to attract 500 people to each of the two performances and to follow up the event with an ‘ Open Day ’ to be held the next week at which the public will be encouraged to try Medau for themselves . |
| 20 | There was one who was sitting beside Gustav Eismark , many years ago , just when he was about to be married the second time . |
| 21 | She was a very nice girl named Eugena , I think , and there were guards at the end of the hotel corridors , I remember giving them the slip and wandering around Khabarovsk on my own in a snowstorm , only to be told the next day that there was quite a bit of excitement in the city during the night because a Siberian tiger had come into the city and was wandering the streets at the same time I was ! |
| 22 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 23 | What 's the Matter Plasma Plasma 's properties are sufficiently different from those of gases , liquids and solids for it to be considered the fourth state of matter . |
| 24 | R. M. Harmer , author of the Corporation section of the first edition of this book , placed himself in such a position as to be issued the last ticket ( for a 6 pence fare ) . |
| 25 | You 'd do we by the time you get in nine o'clock you 're supposed to be re half past nine you 're supposed to be finished the first one . |
| 26 | On being asked the second time by the farmer how the machine worked , the old worker said : ‘ It be whoolly fine now , maaster . |
| 27 | Dr. Johnson then completed a hat-trick of honours by being elected the first holder of Oxford 's David Phillips chair in Molecular Biophysics . |