Example sentences of "[be] [art] [adj] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The largest opposition party , the Movement of Democratic Socialists ( MDS ) led by Mohammed Moada , had been the first to opt for a boycott , on the grounds that the elections represented only a limited pluralist opening as long as parliament and the media continued under RCD control . |
| 2 | The action was to have been the first brought under the Czech Republic 's software piracy laws . |
| 3 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 6 | So if under our present system 25,000 votes go to Alphonse and 15,000 to Belinda and 10,000 to Cuthbert , the votes wasted are the 25,000 given to the two defeated candidates plus 9,999 of the votes given to Alphonse who needed only 15,001 to defeat Belinda , his closest competitor . |
| 7 | I am a Ghanaian working as a Field Officer for VSO in Ghana . |
| 8 | I am a tainted wether of the flock , … meetest for death |
| 9 | If not entirely restricted to the west country , there are no significant remains in the east ( i.e. around London , Verulamium , or Colchester ) . |
| 10 | A sticking-point seemed to be the Burmese demand for the Frontier areas to be brought into the constitutional process . |
| 11 | Sometimes an expedition under orders from the Sibirskii prikaz ( Siberian Department ) in Moscow would be the first to penetrate into a region ; at other times hunters and traders would investigate a new river system on their own , later reporting their success to the local military governor ( voevoda ) , who would then penetrate the region asserting government control over the inhabitants . |
| 12 | They will be the first to go in a slump . |
| 13 | The exchange/refund scheme is thought to be the first offered by a major manufacturer in the UK and relates to all new cars sold to retail customers from last Tuesday . |
| 14 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 15 | It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change . |
| 16 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 17 | London-based Ideal Business Solutions Ltd claims to be the first to market with an 80486DX 66MHz notebook computer , the EPS-486 : the machine has a 10″ active matrix colour display , PCMCIA slot , 4Mb of memory , 128Mb of RAM , a removable 200Mb hard disk , and a portable expansion unit , housing three 16-bit expansion cards ; it weighs 6.4 lbs and costs a phenomenal £2,000 . |
| 18 | A £1.9M grant to supply three duck processing plants to China — believed to be the first supplied by a British company — has been awarded by the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 19 | They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm . |
| 20 | No 86 MEFS at Bloemspruit will continue to train for those bound for Daks and bigger transports and is tipped to be the last to convert to the ‘ new generation ’ Dakota . |
| 21 | We would be the next to follow in the great man 's footsteps . |
| 22 | Taking in both Madrid and Barcelona , the four-day Spanish mission , supported by the Clydesdale Bank , will be the fourth undertaken by the SCDI . |
| 23 | There will be a current produced by the electric field as before ; the new feature is the appearance of a qv X B force on each charge element . |
| 24 | The bottom line , Mr Resende says , will be a one-third cut in the $10 billion public debt , and no operating deficit for this year . |
| 25 | The race is now on to fund what would be a major buy for the museum . |
| 26 | Thompson says OpenAgent can be a 30-minute install from a CD-ROM and everything already on the machine is protected . |
| 27 | Thompson says OpenAgent can be a 30-minute install from a CD-ROM and everything already on the machine is protected . |
| 28 | Being the second born in a poor family with thirteen brothers and sisters , you had to be tough to survive . |
| 29 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 30 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |