Example sentences of "the [noun prp] be [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Calibra was first shown at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and , for the moment at least , is the world 's most aerodynamic production car . |
| 2 | When the SDR was first introduced in 1970 its main purpose was to serve as an additional reserve asset because of a perceived shortage of gold and dollars . |
| 3 | And the States are second to none in drug testing . |
| 4 | His team-mate Mark Jay finished seventh , Leo Cole , of the Chelmer was eighth , with East Anglian Vet Vic Stark in ninth and Tim Bright , of Braintree , completing the ten . |
| 5 | The OED was first planned ( as a ‘ New English Dictionary ’ , a title it bore until 1928 ) by the Philological Society in 1858 , but the real work began with the appointment of J.A.H. Murray as Editor in 1879 . |
| 6 | The Serbs are first referred to as a distinct group in the Balkans in the writings of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII ( Porphyrogenitus , nominally emperor from 913 to 959 but effectively so from 945 ) His massive work De administrando imperio , written in the tenth century , refers to Serbs who were subjects of his predecessors and who were converted to Christianity in the ninth century . |
| 7 | German Michael Schumacher in the Benetton was fifth and Frenchman Jean Alesi in a Ferrari sixth . |
| 8 | ‘ We will be more clinical against the Springboks than the Midlands were last week , ’ he said . |
| 9 | The MGB was first launched exactly 30 years ago . |
| 10 | The LCC was first established in 1978 to campaign on policy issues , especially withdrawal from the EBC , more nationalization and stronger efforts to reduce unemployment , a package often known as the alternative economic strategy . |
| 11 | The idea of a major exhibition that would focus on sixteenth-century Mannerist painting north of the Alps was first mooted at the Ludwig and Wallraf-Richartz Museums in 1985 . |
| 12 | Ian Readman , honorary secretary of the Redcar Station , said he believed it was only the third time a crew at the station had received a medal in the 190 years since the Zetland was first launched from Redcar . |
| 13 | A CONTROVERSIAL proposal for a £15 million marina complex at Gourock on the Clyde was last night approved by Inverclyde District Council 's planning and development committee . |
| 14 | The TUC was last night seeking legal advice and threatened to take the Government to court for alleged breach of European law , claiming that scrapping the councils discriminated against women . |
| 15 | In 1971 the UK was second only to the USA as a home base for multinational companies ; overseas production by British-based multinationals as a proportion of domestic output in 1977 was , at 40 per cent , higher than the corresponding figure for any other national economy except Switzerland ; and in 1971 nearly 20 per cent of UK output was produced by overseas based companies . |
| 16 | A recent government study showed that out of twelve advanced industrial countries , the UK was fourth in 1971 and seventh in 1978 , on a table estimating taxes and social security contributions as a percentage of GNP . |
| 17 | Date last updated the date on which the SSR was last updated . |
| 18 | Apart from this , the Venus is next door to the Britannia and 100 metres from the S'Amfora , so you 're never lost for excellent company . |
| 19 | A replacement for the Nova , the Corsa was ninth in the May 1993 UK top ten sellers list . |
| 20 | If the DC identifier is acceptable , LIFESPAN will display the DC last changed state , the date the DC was last changed ( it may be updated more than once ) , the DC title , and will fill in any existing information on the subsequent pages . |
| 21 | The BMA was last night examining this provision to see what , if any , effect it could have on GPs ' prescribing . |