Example sentences of "[vb past] to be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is quickly shipped off to San Francisco to be studied by a German scientist ( Jon Voight ) , and found to be the last survivor of a tribe massacred by the White Man . |
| 2 | East Anglian brewers Greene King have launched a manual on food hygiene believed to be the first of its kind in the brewing industry . |
| 3 | Australia 's first illustrated book , believed to be the first leather-bound copy of any Australian book , The Birds of New South Wales , by John Lewin , published in Sydney in 1813 with eighteen hand-coloured illustrations , is estimated to fetch £150–200,000 ( $265–350,000 ) . |
| 4 | A £1.9M grant to supply three duck processing plants to China — believed to be the first supplied by a British company — has been awarded by the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 5 | Campus Construction , believed to be the first journal of its type for students of construction , is being published by the Institute 's Commercial Directorate and will initially appear three times a year . |
| 6 | A HI-TECH body scanner , believed to be the first of its kind in the North-East , scans its first patient next month . |
| 7 | Health Images , the company behind the Magnetic Imaging Centre , Lingfield Way , hopes the scanner , believed to be the first of its type in the region , will be in high demand . |
| 8 | Prof Anderson yesterday confirmed to the The Scotsman that he will outline the proposals , believed to be the first of their kind on such a scale in Britain , to councillors and officials this morning at a private meeting . |
| 9 | Despite the donation of more than thirty million European Currency Units raised by GenTech-sponsored concerts in America and the Soviet Union , Wally the Whale — believed to be the last cetacean in the Atlantic Ocean — died today of natural causes totally unconnected with the acceptable levels of pollution in the area . |
| 10 | Combining the new technique with the scientific system of the Roman law , Gratian and his school were able to provide the Church with what came to be the first part of its corpus of official law . |
| 11 | This seemed to be the last straw — somebody was really gunning for me : slowing the whole bloody earth down now . |
| 12 | If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's . |
| 13 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 14 | The words happened to be the first I could enunciate . |
| 15 | I happened to be the last person of my family there . |
| 16 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 17 | The new 0662 family is a line of 1.0Gb 1″ high , 3.5″ disk drives claimed to be the first anywhere to store 1Gb in a 1″ high unit using a second generation magneto-resistive head for areal density of 354M-bytes per square inch . |
| 18 | The resulting machine is being launched by Lenexa , Kansas-based DeskStation Technology as the ARCStation 1 , claimed to be the first personal computer to use the power of RISC in combination with an EISA chip set to provide a migration path for current personal computer users to high-end Windows NT applications . |
| 19 | Spectragraphics ' newest development is PC-Xview for NT , claimed to be the first X-Windows server for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT — which does n't actually exist as a product yet . |
| 20 | They claimed to be the first all-women trade union to strike for recognition and their cause is well known in El Salvador because — as they describe it — they had to fight the " marines " ! |
| 21 | ‘ Oh sir ! ’ said Mrs Crump faintly and for a moment she threatened to be the second act to Miss D'Arcy 's opener . |
| 22 | Mr Levy , a Moroccan-born former building worker , who aspired to be the next Likud leader , announced his intention to resign last week in a power struggle with Mr Shamir . |
| 23 | As a matter of fact , he hated anyone to get to the post before himself , needed to be the first to turn them over and sort them out . |
| 24 | Ironically , in view of Tanzania 's later advance along a socialist path , this proved to be the first entirely commercial radio service in English-speaking Africa . |
| 25 | The ‘ Unification ’ of April 1937 , and the appointment in January 1938 of the first Nationalist cabinet , proved to be the first steps in the creation of the authoritarian regime which , following the Nationalist victory in 1939 , was to govern Spain for another 36 years . |
| 26 | The recruitment of 40 top staff from Indian companies , including some from Bangalore-based Wipro Information Systems , proved to be the last straw . |
| 27 | It proved to be the last London double-decker bus with the passenger 's entrance at the rear . |
| 28 | Surviving until 1932 , it proved to be the last newspaper published inside the country by that organisation . |
| 29 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |
| 30 | But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government . |