Example sentences of "been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 32 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 34 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 35 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 36 | The great hero Rodrigo del Bivar — El Cid — had been the first person to use the weight of heavily armed cavalry against the more lightly clad Moors . |
| 37 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 38 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 39 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 40 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 41 | Indeed , Dr. Mooreman , the vicar of Menheniot from 1530 , had been the first to teach parishioners the Lord 's Prayer and Liturgy in English . |
| 42 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 43 | Kepler , a spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the planet 's atmosphere , magnetic field and gravitational field , would have been the first European planetary mission . |
| 44 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 45 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 46 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 47 | She could not imagine that she had ever been the first person . |
| 48 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |
| 49 | He had been the first to reach Maggie , though her screams had brought people running from all the neighbouring tenements . |
| 50 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 51 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 52 | The stability Royal Mail contracts brought to their operators — particularly the smaller ones — enabled them to offer jobs to newly-qualified CPLs in a segment of the industry which traditionally been the first step in an aviation career . |
| 53 | Although , as we have seen , Saxon infiltration into the Sussex area took a more peaceable form in the fourth and fifth centuries , Ella 's invasion may not have been the first . |
| 54 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 55 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 56 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 57 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 58 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 59 | It was all much as it had been the first time , only evening instead of morning ; and Emily stood by herself as before , and now he knew why , wearing his ring on another finger . |
| 60 | It was obviously different from the religion of Jesus , as far as we understand it , and also from the Jewish vision of St Paul , who had been the first to bring the semitic faith to the hellenistic world of the Roman empire . |