Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] was [prep] the " 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 | The second day was in the survival tank in Lowestoft College . |
| 4 | The second night was at the McKenzie hut , beautifully sited by a lake in a steep valley . |
| 5 | The second outing was from the car park on Chalk Hill . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My second commission was for the Lutheran Church of St Andrew in Suislip . |
| 8 | His second shot was in the rough on the left , but a long way down and then he chips stone-dead . |
| 9 | The second doubt was about the cost . |
| 10 | 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 . " |
| 11 | The Reform movement of the eleventh century was behind the building up of the college of cardinals and its privileges . |
| 12 | I hung on there until , well my fifteenth birthday was in the July and it was November before I actually left . |
| 13 | 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 … |
| 14 | Her first responsibility was to the children , she acknowledged with a sigh . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first course was on the table when we went into the dining-room . |
| 17 | The first change was in the means test itself . |
| 18 | His first question was about the time she was having , his first statement that the cat — and he — were doing fine . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And so off I went then and me first job was at the Dye Works , but just at the shop delivering , as a delivery boy . |
| 21 | After winning the Enfield by-election in 1984 , his first job was in the whip 's office , followed by a stint as junior health minister . |
| 22 | ‘ I had just finished my university course , and my first job was in the south of France , very close to that little village where your house is . ’ |
| 23 | Bunter , whose first appearance was in the Magnet comic in 1908 , was last seen on television in the 1950s , with Gerald Campion in the title role . |
| 24 | Their first allegiance was to the Messiah whose embrace they eagerly awaited . |
| 25 | The first marketplace was on the site of Široká Street . |
| 26 | My very first race was at the White City Stadium . |
| 27 | The first occasion was in the wake of the Czech crisis and the Munich agreement of 1938 . |
| 28 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 29 | At this place the terrace was inaccessible , being several feet below the level of the room , and her first glimpse was of the back of a dark head down below . |
| 30 | Seona Dancing : First gig was in the bar of University College , London . |