Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | SIMON McKie , a director of Rathbone Brothers , the quoted banking and investment group , has been elected the first Deputy Chairman of the Faculty of Taxation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales . |
2 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
3 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
4 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
5 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
6 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
7 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
8 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
9 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
10 | THE internationally renowned Kenyan environmentalist , has been awarded the fifth Edinburgh Medal at a special ceremony . |
11 | Dr Eva Marianne Stern , guest curator of Roman glass at the Toledo Museum of Art , has been awarded the sixth ‘ L'Erma ’ di Bretschneider publication prize for her manuscript of Roman mould-blown glass . |
12 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
13 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |
14 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
15 | After the prize structure has been established the next most important decisions will concern the competition format . |
16 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
17 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |