Example sentences of "be [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 2 | The three are singing the last bars of a song . |
| 3 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 4 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 5 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 6 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
| 7 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 8 | The open days free to unwaged people ; £2.50 to others are to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the opening of Durham Street , which was the first community recording studio in the country . |
| 9 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 10 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 11 | the first bit yeah you 're remembering the last bit when you 're remembering that you 've forgot the first bit . |
| 12 | Well look , if if you 're wanting the next thing to do , I mean you 've done that for seventh year |
| 13 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 14 | erm people do look for protection when they 're when they 're buying the second purchase of their lives in most cases . |
| 15 | but they did n't when they 're having the next one |
| 16 | DO N'T scoff at Skodas , they 're having the last laugh . |
| 17 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 18 | ‘ Yeah , we 're doing the 23rd December at Hammersmith . |
| 19 | No , well , he , you know , just at the end when they 're giving the last news just before nine o'clock |
| 20 | so I 'm actually taking the first three weeks and you 're taking the last |
| 21 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 22 | By enabling IBM Cobol/VSAM CICS applications to run on Unix systems , says Crawford , users are offered the first easy step in moving off their proprietary mainframes ; he reckons Unikix facilitates 200–600% long-term cost-of-ownership savings for a typical customer . |
| 23 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 24 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 25 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
| 26 | Nevertheless it is not financially troubled Japan , but Asia 's tigers who are leading the next wave of investment in the region . |
| 27 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 28 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
| 29 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
| 30 | POLICE and fire brigade experts are investigating the second blaze in a fortnight at a farm on the Mulgrave estate near Whitby . |