Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] it be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime the fortunes of the undertaking fluctuated but by the late sixteenth century it was in financial difficulties . |
| 2 | If you are recalled for a second interview it is worth changing to a different outfit altogether if you can afford it or have something else suitable . |
| 3 | Nether Stowey — usually known in Coleridge 's day , and since , simply as Stowey — had called itself a town for as long as anyone could remember , but by the late eighteenth century it was in reality no more than a large , straggling village whose inhabitants numbered fewer than six hundred . |
| 4 | Although , as we have seen , they emerged in the latter half of the fifteenth century it was under the Tudors that they reached a peak of development . |
| 5 | When the OED was planned in the mid-nineteenth century it was to be a new approach to lexicography . |
| 6 | I think that the hon. Gentleman knows that in the first instance it is for the mineral planning authority to decide whether to revoke the planning consent for extractions and whether such action is warranted . |
| 7 | Also in the field is a Mira variable , S Canis Minoris , but as it never rises above the seventh magnitude it is of no real interest to anyone without a telescope . |
| 8 | So bear that in mind , even the beginning of this story look at that first paragraph it 's in a darker type it 'll make me filthy , a darker and a larger size . |
| 9 | For the first year it is in continual body contact with its mother , clinging tightly to her as she travels and climbing all over her when she stops . |
| 10 | First time it was to the did he say whether Gavin got off alright ? |
| 11 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 12 | It is considered that in the last resort it is to civil remedies that she should have recourse . |
| 13 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 14 | a good programme on last night it was about B B C |
| 15 | This morning I can kind of feel it , but last night it was as if I was when I swallowed there was a big lump . |
| 16 | well this one that was on last night it was like a |
| 17 | ‘ I rang him — he 'd given me a list of all the Grands Prix contact numbers — but when he came to my hotel the next morning it was of his own accord . ’ |
| 18 | Do n't forget , those of you in Tuesday class , next week it 's at four P M and not two P M. |
| 19 | We ca n't come next week , cos next week it 's on Thursday morning Wait a minute , that one 's for you Tim that one 's for me there we go . |
| 20 | When we played Battyburn last year it was on telly in Ireland and Leeds that day were brutal . |
| 21 | By the end of the 18th century it was in the hands of John Sutton . |
| 22 | It 's just that next year it 's under threat because of the cut backs . |
| 23 | And because the horse has n't been upset , it is more likely to be co-operative next time it is to be shod . |
| 24 | I know , but you , last time it was on you said , ooh I would n't have minded seeing that . |
| 25 | Well I saw it in the last time it was in here on Central and it was n't , it did n't come on ! |