Example sentences of "[noun] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tune into the harmony of your developing fragrance : Top Notes are the first scent you 'll smell , but these are volatile and do n't last . |
| 2 | Fortunately , for most of us , the business of dividing up an estate does not involve nearly as much emotional wear and tear , and material possessions are the last things on your mind when you lose someone you love . |
| 3 | Planting one of their cherry trees at Rotherfield Park are the 3rd Alton Beavers , pictured with leader Guy Bagshaw |
| 4 | The two clubs are the first set up by the recreation support unit of Darlington Borough Council . |
| 5 | Fruit and vegetables are the second most valuable item to South Africa 's economy and earned $119 million in 1987 — a fall of 5% on 1986 — reflecting the impact of consumer boycotts in the West . |
| 6 | Bleach are the first truly mind-boggling band ever to come from Ipswich , an archetypal Suffolk market town , once home of Bobby Robson and erm , that 's it . |
| 7 | Bottle tops , silver paper and tin cans are the last things you should throw away . |
| 8 | BAY OF PLENTY are the first New Zealand team to send a team to the Melrose Sevens next month . |
| 9 | Conoco Speciality Products and Southampton University are the first winners of the Hydro Award 1991 , for outstanding achievement in the field of water quality improvement in the UK . |
| 10 | It seems , once again , that Sussex are the last in the queue , yet not the least indelible of the summer 's memories will be Franklyn Stephenson 's contribution to that win over Durham at Horsham . |
| 11 | Michael Ainslie ( also an American ) , acknowledged that salaries are linked to an individual ( rather than departmental ) bonus scheme but denied that Mr Faxon 's new contracts are the first step towards individual commission-based salaries . |
| 12 | Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday entered the emerging digital video- and wideband communications markets with announcement of products for video production , editing , broadcast , transmission and distribution : the new products are the first in an extensive line planned by the company , and include professional studio equipment and systems to monitor transmission quality ; they are being introduced by the company 's newly formed Video Communications Division in Santa Clara . |
| 13 | I tell him that in a depression , manners are the first casualties . |
| 14 | Except in cases of oxygen starvation , when the biggest fish in a pond are the first to succumb , it is the tiddlers that react worst to poor water quality , bacterial or parasitic problems . |
| 15 | Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian , the language which , like French in Imperial Russia , had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah . |
| 16 | I mean , God 's sake , let them particularly journalists are the last people to insult |
| 17 | Grid Computers are the first company to produce a specially designed pen notebook portable computer . |
| 18 | The stringencies built into the economy are serious disadvantages and salutary disciplines : Soviet designers are the last to confuse the most advanced solution with the most effective one . |
| 19 | King penguins are the second largest of all the penguin tribe , only exceeded in size by the emperor penguin which breeds on the sea ice of the cold Antarctic continent . |
| 20 | The prizes as stated will be awarded to those readers whose correct entries are the first drawn out of the bag after the competition 's closing date . |
| 21 | Our teenagers are the first generation of young people to begin their sex lives under the shadow of AIDS . |
| 22 | A tidal acceleration is the difference between gravitational acceleration at different locations so that the corresponding parameters in curved space–time are the second derivatives of the metric connections . |
| 23 | David Hockney 's set designs are the first he has done for Covent Garden . |
| 24 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 25 | But today the fittest populations in the technical sense of the term are the Third World . |
| 26 | It is possible to suggest an implicational series , using the symbols suggested in chapter 4.5 : as the rule diffuses through the lexicon , monosyllabic T environments are the first to be affected by it , followed by monosyllabic D environments , with the polysyllables being the last to be affected . |
| 27 | These sensations are the first acute symptoms of anxiety , often leading to hyperventilation and to the initiation of catastrophic panic thoughts . |
| 28 | To our knowledge , these data are the first evidence for a specific interaction between a small molecule antagonist and the transmembrane domain of a peptide receptor . |
| 29 | Winners are the first correct entries drawn . |
| 30 | Senior consultants and local politicians fear plans to create powerful purchasing consortiums among the region 's 15 districts are the first step towards merger . |