Example sentences of "[be] the eighth [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Next summer will be the eighth anniversary of the £42 million collapse , but the Manx Government has fought claims for compensation every step of the way .
2 ‘ I thought it would be the eighth round .
3 It will be the eighth meeting between these two-mile elitists and , so far , Katabatic is two ahead .
4 North to south , these were the Eighth Army ( Kaledin ) , Eleventh ( Sakharov ) , Seventh ( Scherbachev ) and the Ninth ( Lechitski ) .
5 But I can show you , I can show you the eighth floor and show you where the gang where is the eighth floor ?
6 Mr Ward , a senior partner of the Washington law firm of Ward , Lazarus , Grow & Cihlar , is the eighth person to face criminal proceedings in relation to the Guinness affair .
7 ‘ The Alhambra Palace is the eighth wonder of the world and it is the only remaining medieval Arab palace anywhere in the world .
8 The first is the eighth note triplet shuffle and the second is the sixteenth note triplet or the half-time shuffle feel .
9 For Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh , the head of the three-year investigation into the scandal , the Poindexter verdict was the eighth conviction of an Iran-contra participant .
10 And that was the eighth green not being on .
11 When Neville Chamberlain became Mayor of Birmingham in 1915 , he was the eighth member of the family to hold the office in half a century , and he was never to forget the influence of his local roots .
12 This was one of the largest sales to date in the government 's sweeping privatization programme , and Bancomer was the eighth bank to be auctioned in 1991 ; all had sold for two or three times their book value .
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