Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun sg] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and fifty kilos for tomorrow morning , is very exciting , until you realise that oil is the last thing on God 's earth we ought to be carrying . |
| 2 | ‘ It may surprise you to hear that typing is the last thing on my mind , ’ he said softly , sitting down beside her . |
| 3 | If , in the Victorian novel , a disproportionate number of working-class interiors are attractive , it is partly because the theorists of infection were all agreed that cleanliness was the first step towards prevention . |
| 4 | The National Monuments Record Photographic Archive is the fourth category , and Buildings for the Age : New Building Types 1900–1939 ( 1982 ) and Farms in England : Prehistoric to Present ( 1983 ) are representative titles . |
| 5 | In the patient with Hodgkin 's disease , isolated oesophageal lymphoma was the first relapse after a 13 year interval free of disease . |
| 6 | Innocence may be the first casualty of war , as the posters for the film boldly quoted , but it seems good taste is the first casualty in computer-game marketing . |
| 7 | I thought last week was the last one ? |
| 8 | ‘ I think popular music is the last refuge of young people in the world . |
| 9 | He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] . |
| 10 | Baron von Richthofen in Sterling silver plated English pewter is the first in a new series of 12 figures entitled Heroes of Aviation from Anthony Slocombe . |