Example sentences of "[noun] to [be] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 2 | Howard Cooke , the current President of the Senate and a veteran politician of the People 's National Party ( PNP ) , was chosen by the government in late July to be the next Governor General ; the opposition Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ) stated that it should have been consulted and expressed disappointment with the choice . |
| 3 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 4 | You might expect Christians to be the last group of people to be involved in strong confrontations . |
| 5 | Sequent figures to be the first vendor to offer a large-scale symmetric multi-processing implementation of CA 's products for Unix . |
| 6 | A race to be the first man at the South Pole , in Antarctica . |
| 7 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 8 | Your claim to be the first publication to print dog obituaries made me wonder how many other readers remember the Tail-wagger magazine , which had a regular In Memoriam column . |
| 9 | Prince Albert was an enthusiast for chemical teaching in London , and A. W. Hofmann ( famous for research on the amines ) was brought from Germany to be the first professor at the Royal College . |
| 10 | With their people weary of war , the Elves of the Sixth Council selected Bel-Korhadris of Saphery to be the next Phoenix King . |
| 11 | AIR AND ANGELS by Susan Hill Mandarin , £3.99 THE natural choice to be the next head of his Cambridge College , a bachelor philosopher in his fifties , sees a 15-year-old girl standing on a bridge and instantly , desperately falls in love with her . |
| 12 | Emlyn Williams was precisely the right man to be the next guru . |
| 13 | I had felt this incident to be the last straw , but it was n't — quite As a misfit , I was not entirely alone . |
| 14 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 15 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |