Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [conj] was the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 I was born in Nottinghamshire and was the third of five sons .
2 It represents the logical conclusion to preceding buildings and is the expression of national culture ; it stands for the essence of Muscovite Christianity in Russia and was the last great church of the movement in this architectural form .
3 AMDEA represents about 90 per cent of the companies that make domestic electrical equipment in Britain and was the first trade association to draw up a code of practice approved by the OFT .
4 We took the children , when we had the bus we took the children to Southend that was the first time they had all been out together and the owner of the Kersal and the person responsible on the council for the erm maintaining of of Southend , such as the Chairman , they put the Kersal at our disposal !
5 F/O Pickard , a US citizen who coincidentally had worked on the carrier in the US before joining the ATA , recognized the vessel at Glasgow and was the first of those involved to identify it as VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) .
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