Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They also state that ‘ the hemiparesis in the second case was on the opposite cortical side from the migraine-associated ‘ hypoaesthesia ’ , but in their case-report both the numbness and the hemiparesis were right-sided . |
| 2 | The second plea was to the regime for ‘ clear and convincing steps ’ towards putting the country on a just , democratic and socialist course . |
| 3 | Her charm was such that her second marriage was with a man twenty years her junior , Sir John Danvers . |
| 4 | My second job was as a secretary . |
| 5 | The second day was in the survival tank in Lowestoft College . |
| 6 | The second night was at the McKenzie hut , beautifully sited by a lake in a steep valley . |
| 7 | The second outing was from the car park on Chalk Hill . |
| 8 | The second occasion was in the mid-1980s when the Bank had to step in after banks and discount houses failed to complete London Clear , a project to automate settlements and transactions in the money markets . |
| 9 | The second example was of a time when Caesar was ill , and cried to Titinius to get him a drink , as feebly as a woman might ( says Cassius ) , and he bore his illness in a cowardly way . |
| 10 | My second commission was for the Lutheran Church of St Andrew in Suislip . |
| 11 | His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead . |
| 12 | The second problem was of a more subtle kind , and was well formulated by Lessing himself . |
| 13 | The second doubt was about the cost . |
| 14 | As two leading historical demographers have recently stressed : " The largest and most obvious effect of the sharp rise in population in the eighteenth century was on the national average wage of labour . " |
| 15 | The Reform movement of the eleventh century was behind the building up of the college of cardinals and its privileges . |
| 16 | The training undergone by aspiring teachers in the 19th century was of a fairly rudimentary kind , and the financial rewards at the end of it all were nothing like those accorded to successful lawyers or doctors . |
| 17 | People seemed to forget that the entire fourth zone was in a perpetual state of starvation anyway . ’ |
| 18 | To be fair , the Eighth Army was in a state of some confusion and was having to plan the defence of the Nile Delta . |
| 19 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 20 | My first dive was in a disused quarry pit where we were tested on our skills and we then swam round the lake and in a submerged double decker bus . |
| 21 | The Nicholson a double in the big meeting at Ascot … first winner was For the Grain and then good old Waterloo Boy won the major race of the day … |
| 22 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 23 | Edward 's first responsibility was for the receipt and expenditure of the money assigned for the operations , a responsibility discharged through a special exchequer set up in 1246 , over which he presided . |
| 24 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 25 | The first change was in the means test itself . |
| 26 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 27 | Benjamin and Elizabeth 's first home was in a rather unusual location for them : Titfords in general rarely seem to have favoured areas of London south of the Thames as a place to live , but here was a brief exception . |
| 28 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 29 | The first need was for a way to evaluate positions : to see which side was ahead , and by how much . |
| 30 | She moved to area in 1975 , and her first job was at a primary school in Middlesbrough where she taught music . |