Example sentences of "it is the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It is the thirteenth chapter of Luke , the twenty-seventh verse . |
2 | It is the 33rd in the series of Bartholomew walking guides . |
3 | For drama school it is the first taste of things to come and on the whole a good thing . |
4 | If it is the first flight of the day for you , then it should always be the aim to make it an accurate spot landing . |
5 | It is the first duty of any coach arriving at a competition to get hold of a current draw sheet , identify the areas on which his entries will be competing and confirm the timetable . |
6 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
7 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
8 | Adapted from Russell 's 1978 stageplay , Stags And Hens , about a stag-night and a hen-party which converge at the same venue , it is the first BBC-funded film ever to receive a full cinematic release ( next Spring ) before its television broadcast ( September 1991 ) . |
9 | It is the first time that Prince Charles has given direct financial help to a run-down urban area , and the Duchy has been granted a 125-year lease on the 0.6 acre site . |
10 | It is the first time the inspectorate has taken the board to court for an alleged lapse of safety . |
11 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
12 | This momentous decision — it is the first time a former Greek prime minister has been indicted by parliament — was complemented by measures the left coalition in particular regards as vital to prevent abuse of power by single-party governments in future . |
13 | It is the first time aviation experts and the rescue services have held a joint conference on the importance of working together . |
14 | It is the first Marxist book in which anthropological data predominate . |
15 | It is the first and second parts which follow Morgan most closely . |
16 | It is the first pull of the day so we all know what to expect . |
17 | It is the first time the fraud squad has been directly accused of leaking the report . |
18 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
19 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
20 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since 1978 . |
21 | It is the first time troops have been brought in during a dispute since 1978 . |
22 | It is the first time that troops have been brought in during an industrial dispute since the firemen 's strike in 1978 . |
23 | It is the first time the industry has been able to purchase cover for long-term environmental damage although it does buy insurance against sudden pollution incidents or claims from disasters such as explosions . |
24 | It is the first time a sculpture from the period has fetched such a sum . |
25 | It is the first time a former officer has been given permission to write about MI5 since Sir Percy Sillitoe , the post-war head of the service , published his memoirs in 1955 . |
26 | It is the first time crews outside London have decided to cut themselves off from controllers and to accept only those calls put through by the police , the fire service , GPs , hospitals and the public . |
27 | ‘ It is the first round . |
28 | It is the first of a rapidly growing family of microscopes based on the idea of moving a needle over a surface to sense its shape . |
29 | It is the first time since the end of the second world war that the Japanese navy has ventured overseas . |
30 | He had women not only in his church choir ( it is the first known instance ) but also in too close association with the life and pastoral work of the clergy . |