Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 32 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 33 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 34 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 35 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 36 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |
| 37 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 38 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 39 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 40 | Posters appeared in some villages advertising what was intended the next market day and calling on " one and all " to join in . |
| 41 | None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives . |
| 42 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |