Example sentences of "[be] the [num ord] [noun] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is believed to be the first time a developer has urged the Government to schedule an archaeological site . |
| 2 | AI believes this may be the first time a poll has shown such opposition . |
| 3 | Even then this will be the first time a draft will have been presented to Council . |
| 4 | The Admiral can have the admiral 's cabin — it 'll be the first time an admiral has slept there . |
| 5 | Apart from the shining neon power switch and the Slave function already discussed , the Behringer will sit quietly in your rack , floating in a sea of general blackness , and probably wo n't be the first thing a visitor to your studio comments upon . |
| 6 | But its likely to be the last time a circus comes to the town … councillors have voted to ban performing animals from their land . |
| 7 | This is the fifth time a group of local youngsters has visited Almelo . |
| 8 | This is the first time a unit trust company has had to suspend funds under the Financial Services Act 's pricing regulations , which oblige it to cease trading once an error is suspected . |
| 9 | It is the first time a sculpture from the period has fetched such a sum . |
| 10 | ‘ This is the first time a beacon has been used in a mountain rescue in the UK , ’ said a rescuer . |
| 11 | It is the first time a party from the south have joined the team , headed by Keith Taylor , area organiser for the charity , Aid to Romanian Orphans . |
| 12 | The Committee believes that this is the first time a group of solicitors , experts in their field , have considered the legal feasibility of an anti-discrimination law to help people with disabilities work . |
| 13 | this is the first time a cardinal has preached before an English monarch since the Reformation |
| 14 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 15 | This is the second time a court has ruled that press coverage of a controversial case has prevented a fair trial . |
| 16 | Had he known it , he had merely started the echo of another man 's voice in Harry 's overburdened mind , saying bitterly : ‘ Light is the last thing a man should willingly surrender . |
| 17 | It 's the first time a licence has been refused because of animal welfare . |
| 18 | Noel Lynch , of the Ulster Aviation Society , said : ‘ It 's the first time a reunion like this has taken place . |
| 19 | But it 's the first time a cell has been set alight since the brand new modern jail was opened . |
| 20 | You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey |
| 21 | This was the first time a company had been invited to give a product demonstration at the centre and were keen to present the merits of their product . |
| 22 | A man accused of raping his wife has been cleared by a jury at Sheffield Crown Court ; it was the first time a man in England had been charged with such an offence . |
| 23 | It was the first time a man in England has been charged with such an offence . |
| 24 | It has been suggested that this was the first time a summer pavilion had been adapted from a Greek temple . |
| 25 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |