Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |
| 2 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 3 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 4 | If this excluded option is allowed back into the debate , and the claim that our existing intuitions should not be given the last word is seriously considered , the authority of the case for individualism is immediately questioned . |
| 5 | Thus were removed the last measures remaining of the state of emergency first imposed in June 1986 and partially lifted in June 1990 [ see pp. 34663 ; 37522 ] . |
| 6 | You do not need to send your releases to everyone who might be interested if this is likely to delay getting them into the post ; that can always be done the next morning . |
| 7 | A famous passage in Virgil 's Fourth Eclogue gives expression to the concept of the ‘ Eternal Return ’ : ‘ Now is come the last age of the song of Cumae ; the great line of the centuries begins anew … |
| 8 | Mollie says she wo n't be fooled the next time a conman comes to call |
| 9 | This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God . |