Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 2 | It 's just if Rod wanted to write notes this is the last blank one I 've got . |
| 3 | After forty years prowling the perimeters of western defences this is the first Bear bomber to enter NATO airspace by invitation . |
| 4 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 5 | Out of the original hundred houses this was the last one to be occupied and we saw this being built , erm right from the time that it was a plot of land and we knew it was ours |
| 6 | Car 32 was the first to be extended and placed on bogies ( see 3 ) , although the old top cover was sometimes used . |
| 7 | Richard III is the first full-scale hypocrite in Shakespeare , using the dramatic structure I have described , based on the dichotomies near/far , truth/lies , with supreme energy and skill . |
| 8 | In this study ii was the third strategy which was most commonly used ( 53 per cent ) followed by the fourth ( 39 per cent ) . |
| 9 | They might have mislaid the formula for operating over five days — December 1986 is the last time England beat anyone of any consequence when asked to bat and bowl for longer than 55 overs — but there is no getting away from their ability to play the negative stuff as well as anyone else . |
| 10 | But the official opening on December 2 was the first time outsiders had been allowed to see Tencel rolling off the spinning lines . |
| 11 | United have been going well in recent weeks , but they really could do with another win at home this was the last 6 weeks ago against Cambridge United . |
| 12 | The litter born to this bitch on 24 July 1975 was the first to be whelped in New Zealand . |
| 13 | He recalls his days as a graduate student when the famous IBM 650 was the last word in computing wizardry . |
| 14 | The ¥70.3 trillion ( $520 billion ) budget approved during a late-night cabinet meeting on December 24th is the first in post-war years to put priority on seeking a better way of life for the Japanese rather than achieving higher economic growth or increased exports . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The royal grant of the castle and honour of Knaresborough , Yorkshire , in December 1314 was the first favour to come his way . |
| 17 | The " Anomalies Act " passed in July 1931 was the first major attempt to reduce such expenditure . |
| 18 | A government-organized pro-Iraqi demonstration in Tunis on Aug. 14 was the first legal demonstration since Ben Ali assumed power in late 1987 . |
| 19 | After twenty years this was the first time George had ever referred to what had happened . |
| 20 | Unisys Corp added two new workstations to the CTOS SuperGen line of networked commercial workstations : the SuperGen 3000 and SuperGen 1000 are the first CTOS systems based on Unisys personal computers using standard architecture ; the SuperGen 3000 is a fully featured Intel Corp 80486SL-based client workstation at about $2,000 and available now , the SuperGen 1000 costs about $3,000 and will be available next month . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Elections to a new House of Representatives in November 1989 were the first for 22 years [ see pp. 37052-53 ] . |
| 23 | It has remained of particular interest because its canon seven was the first to declare the marriage of clerics not only unlawful but invalid . |
| 24 | In the President 's citation it stated that the Jetstream 41 was the first aircraft to be designed and manufactured in Scotland for several decades and is testimony to the enterprise and teamwork of the company 's workforce . |
| 25 | Tri-Lux II is the first antifouling that can be used safely over underwater metals including aluminium hulls and outdrive engines , says the company . |
| 26 | FRC 92 is the fifth international conference on fibre reinforced composites and will take place at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne on 24–26 March 1992 . |
| 27 | In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything . |
| 28 | Going from there to , and that 's a sort of history of where things have happened over the previous four mon four months , to expectations about output this is the first survey since the recession began in which all regions , mainland regions of the U K say that they expect output to increase over the coming four months . |
| 29 | Kazakhstan on Oct. 25 and Kirghizia on Oct. 30 were the last of the 15 union republics to issue sovereignty declarations . |
| 30 | To our knowledge this is the first prospective study that has shown that bacterial pneumonia is associated with HIV seroconversion among intravenous drug misusers . |