Example sentences of "the [noun] to [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Irish , thought by the EEC to be the last in Europe to take B17 off the market , say that the product has now been withdrawn . |
| 2 | Many readers take the moral to be the last two lines of the poem , which seem to mean ‘ Be kind to animals ’ . |
| 3 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 4 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 5 | The international Consultative Committee for the cultural programme of the Council of Europe , made up of European museum directors , chose the exhibition to be the next in the series of twenty-one shows which has included ‘ The French Revolution and Europe ’ , also held in Paris ( 1989 ) , ‘ The Portuguese discoveries and Renaissance Europe ’ ( Lisbon , 1983 ) and ‘ Gothic art in Europe ’ ( 1968 ) . |
| 6 | She wanted the strength to be the first to pull away but it would n't come , that little bit extra that would separate desire from decency . |
| 7 | Conversation on the topic gave Flaubert a colique des wagons ; in June 1843 he pronounced the railways to be the third most boring subject imaginable after Mme Lafarge ( an arsenic poisoner ) and the death of the Duc d'Orleans ( killed in his carriage the previous year ) . |
| 8 | I 've seen Labour inspired Trade Union control of hospitals , I 've seen the patient to be the last in Labour 's priorities |