Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 2 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 3 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 4 | Tuesday was the last day of uncertainty . |
| 5 | TUESDAY WAS the third and last day of the Pipeline Masters . |
| 6 | Left-hander Jimmy Adams was the last man out for a defiant 47 . |
| 7 | ‘ In March a Policy Directions Paper was accepted by the Council.This was the second stage in the process leading to production of the Plan , linking an earlier Issues and Context Report and the draft Plan . ’ |
| 8 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 9 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 10 | Hill was the first to speak of muscle activity in terms of costs and expenditures , and he originated the term ‘ oxygen debt ’ . |
| 11 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 12 | Hill was the third generation of a family of prominent educationalists and social reformers , who had their origins in the radical Unitarian culture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Birmingham . |
| 13 | John Michell was the first to draw attention in print to the similarity between such structures , with their layers of organic ( earth ) and inorganic ( rock ) material , to Reich 's orgone energy accumulators . |
| 14 | In November it was announced that exports of coffee — of which Angola was the fourth largest producer in the world before independence — were less than half those expected . |
| 15 | INCUBUS was the next decade . |
| 16 | And Sandeman was the first port company to acknowledge publicly that sales were a crucial aspect to any business . |
| 17 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 18 | Dulcie Howes was the first of them . |
| 19 | ‘ Tosca was the first score I came to grips with , and what a score ! |
| 20 | David was the first of her children to wed and Laura got on well with her first in-law , welcoming her into the family as well as the company . |
| 21 | Möllemann 's visit to Taiwan was the first by a German federal minister . |
| 22 | Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes . |
| 23 | ‘ FDC was the first step ’ , says Mr Johnson , ‘ and now we 're using it to feed into the EIS Commander . ’ |
| 24 | Surrey was the first landscape she had experienced that could be called feminine . |
| 25 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 26 | The company 's vice-president , Horst Nasko , said that , before merger , Nixdorf was the second most important manufacturer in the country as regards volume sales . |
| 27 | Wright was the first of Souness 's multi-million pound recruits back in the summer of 1991 , but his fortunes took a savage nosedive in September after a string of poor Liverpool results against Aston Villa , Chesterfield and Wimbledon . |
| 28 | Bert Weald was the first to enter and he put his cross to mark the receipt of his year 's wages . |
| 29 | It is possible that the organizers had misread the calendar , believing that Saturday was the first of April , not the third ? |
| 30 | Saturday was the last night , and Miles would be leaving on Monday . |