Example sentences of "[be] the fourth " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been the fourth 60 on Tour this season , but his 12-under-par return was the lowest to par ever in Europe . |
| 2 | A SCOTTISH soldier killed by a single shot while on foot patrol in south Armagh yesterday is thought to have been the fourth victim of an Irish Republican Army assassin . |
| 3 | The ‘ fat oyster in the American story ’ probably refers to the story of a man struggling with a very large oyster in a stew , to whom the waiter says , ‘ Well , sir , you are the fourth man who has tried to swallow that oyster . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We are the fourth owners , ’ added Mr Carter , who had lived in Norton , Cleveland , at the start of his career , and bought Edelson House from a local builder , Mr Brian Richardson . |
| 5 | It will be the fourth largest pharmacy chain in the UK with 153 outlets . |
| 6 | They may be the fourth largest national group in the Middle East , after the Arabs , Persians and Turks , but their hope of an independent Kurdistan appears to have vanished . |
| 7 | ‘ There we go again — must be the fourth time this month . ’ |
| 8 | It will only be the fourth year before the accounts go back to independent examination . |
| 9 | By 1991 , the Levellers , then without a chart hit to their name , were said to be the fourth most bankable live band in the country . |
| 10 | This will be the fourth time the World Cup has opened at the Utah resort , the third time for women . |
| 11 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 12 | Bull reckons its systems integration business is growing at three times the market rate and claims to be the fourth largest systems integration business in Europe . |
| 13 | As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking . |
| 14 | And that would be F would be the fourth degree . |
| 15 | On Saturday , 2nd February 1991 , four members of the B.C.R.S. Preservation Group paid a working visit to the Gwili Railway following a tip-off that they have just acquired a six wheel GWR passenger coach , which , when fully restored will be the fourth oldest coach in preservation . |
| 16 | The Independent of April 8 noted that this Luxembourg meeting of the European Council would be the fourth special meeting in 18 months [ see pp. 37028 ; 37363-64 ; 37782-83 ] and detected " a subtle but important change in the character of the Community , away from supranational roots where the European Commission holds sway , towards a more intergovernmental future under the guiding hand of the European Council " . |
| 17 | What that means in your particular groups you will nominate amongst yourselves who will be the fourth role play . |
| 18 | Taking in both Madrid and Barcelona , the four-day Spanish mission , supported by the Clydesdale Bank , will be the fourth undertaken by the SCDI . |
| 19 | But he warned that buyers ' foreign-exchange hedging operations meant that it would be the fourth quarter of 1992 before the full impact came through in orders and deliveries . |
| 20 | Hastings will be the fourth Scot to captain the Lions since the Second World War in succession to the late Arthur Smith in South Africa in 1962 ; Mike Campbell-Lamerton in New Zealand in 1966 and Finlay Calder in Australia in 1989 when the combination of a Scotland captain and coach ended triumphant . |
| 21 | That would be the fourth root . |
| 22 | That 'll be the fourth fourth bedroom ? |
| 23 | but then he started doi you know , a few weeks ago it wa , well it 'll be the fourth week I should think ! |
| 24 | The indifference of the electorate was blamed partly on the apathy produced by this being the fourth election in 18 months , by the confusing number of different party slates and by the lack of concrete proposal and programmes from the candidates . |
| 25 | These were the fourth and fifth pushes in the Karbala series . |
| 26 | The competition is being run for five months , of which this is the fourth , so you 've still got two chances to win this holiday of a lifetime . |
| 27 | Dusseldorf-based WestLB is the fourth largest bank in West Germany with total assets of £55bn . |
| 28 | Mr Bakker is the fourth PTL official to be convicted in connection with the scandal , which began after it was revealed that he had an affair with a former church secretary , Jessica Hahn , using PTL funds to pay her hush money afterwards . |
| 29 | It is the fourth time since Mr Chirac 's humiliating defeat in the presidential election three years ago that the discredited yet seemingly immovable leadership of the right has been challenged . |
| 30 | Although this is the fourth rate cut since last July , analysts say Bank of Japan governor Yasushi Mieno must go further . |