Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [num] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is important to be reminded , moreover , that although Darlington Hall was to witness many more events of equal gravity over the fifteen or so years that followed , that conference of March 1923 was the first of them ; one was , one supposes , relatively inexperienced , and inclined to leave little to chance . |
| 2 | Again the Chancellor comes to be usually a lawyer : Lord Shaftesbury under Charles II was the last Chancellor who had never been a practising lawyer . |
| 3 | The royal grant of the castle and honour of Knaresborough , Yorkshire , in December 1314 was the first favour to come his way . |
| 4 | The " Anomalies Act " passed in July 1931 was the first major attempt to reduce such expenditure . |
| 5 | Her visit to the Association 's headquarters in Carlisle in November 1983 was the first of many engagements she has undertaken on behalf of the BDA in later years . |
| 6 | Elections to a new House of Representatives in November 1989 were the first for 22 years [ see pp. 37052-53 ] . |
| 7 | A government-organized pro-Iraqi demonstration in Tunis on Aug. 14 was the first legal demonstration since Ben Ali assumed power in late 1987 . |
| 8 | The visit to Laos by Taro Nakayama , the Japanese Foreign Minister , on Aug. 2-3 was the first by a senior Japanese minister since the formation of the Lao People 's Democratic Republic in 1975 . |
| 9 | But the official opening on December 2 was the first time outsiders had been allowed to see Tencel rolling off the spinning lines . |
| 10 | Public disenchantment with the fruits of democratization , and voter fatigue ( the second round on Oct. 14 was the sixth nationwide ballot in less than a year ) , were blamed for widespread apathy towards the elections . |
| 11 | Kazakhstan on Oct. 25 and Kirghizia on Oct. 30 were the last of the 15 union republics to issue sovereignty declarations . |
| 12 | The visit to Nepal of Chandra Shekhar on Feb. 13-15 was the first by an Indian Prime Minister since 1977 . |
| 13 | A meeting on Nov. 16 was the first under the agreement since April 1992 , when bilateral Anglo-Irish talks had been adjourned because Unionist parties refused to participate in the " Brooke initiative " talks while they continued . |
| 14 | A visit to Russia by de Klerk on June 1-2 was the first by a South African head of state . |