Example sentences of "be [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 32 | Sister Cooney had been the first to hint it to him . |
| 33 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 34 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 35 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not be able to survive the revolutionary climate of popular anger . |
| 36 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 37 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 38 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 39 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 40 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 41 | Property developers have been the first to suffer , with credit lines cut off , interest costs rising and prices beginning to slip . |
| 42 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 43 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 44 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 45 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 46 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 47 | 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 ! |
| 48 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 50 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | I began there as someone who was already a professor , I had been the first woman Pro-Vice-Chancellor in the country . |
| 54 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 55 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 56 | 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 ) . |
| 57 | Indeed , Dr. Mooreman , the vicar of Menheniot from 1530 , had been the first to teach parishioners the Lord 's Prayer and Liturgy in English . |
| 58 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | 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 . |