Example sentences of "[be] [prep] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These babies are to be the first of a new kind of missile , powered by life . |
| 2 | Women Deacons in the Diocese of Oxford are to be the first in the country to be ordained as priests . |
| 3 | The proposal for a community charge — or ‘ poll tax ’ — put forward by Nicholas Ridley in 1988 ran into furious local opposition , not least among the Scots who were to be the first to pay this new imposition , After all , freeborn Englishmen , led by Wat Tyler , had revolted against a poll tax as long ago as 1381 , and its bluntness and social inequity helped fuel a considerable popular protest , including in the Conservative shires . |
| 4 | Despite these intentions there is some evidence , however , drawn from proposed schemes submitted by LEAs ( but never implemented ) , which suggests that in practice the allegedly integrated curriculum emphasized ‘ liberal ’ studies for the 14- to 16-year-olds who were to be the first age-group to attend under compulsion . |
| 5 | We were to be the first line . |
| 6 | Didsbury and Berkshire College of Education ( soon to be renamed Bulmershe College of Higher Education ) were to be the first to submit ‘ major ’ complete schemes for full-time BEd courses . |
| 7 | Villagers in Usk , Powys , thought they were to be the next flood victims when the River Usk rose 20 feet in three hours . |
| 8 | These were to be the last workmen 's cottages built at Wolverton by the Company . |
| 9 | The story of the Frome Titfords properly ends with the youngest of the four brothers whose fortunes we have been following ; his children were to be the last Titfords in the town , and he himself outlived William , Thomas and Charles . |
| 10 | By what were to be the last years of the silent cinema quite a few critics had become aware of some sense of life in the feature film . |
| 11 | They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm . |
| 12 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 13 | The court held that the rule that the welfare of the child is to be the first and paramount consideration applies not only to disputes between parents , but also to a dispute between parents and a third party . |
| 14 | ‘ The main thing with women is to be the first person they meet . |
| 15 | An example might be the provisions which state that the child 's welfare is to be the first consideration in decisions relating to adoption and children in care ( Sections 3 and 59 ) . |
| 16 | His aim is to be the first President of Corea and since he is 72 and has few more years left in which to realise his ambition he will use any means to hand including , if time presses , the blood of his deluded followers . |
| 17 | The aim is to be the first rider over the finish line after a certain amount of time . |
| 18 | The London borough of Kensington and Chelsea is to be the first local authority in the UK to introduce a kerbside collection service for separated waste . |
| 19 | Cape Horn has always been a challenge and something he wanted to do … he says the aim is to be the first school group to sail around the world … the other aspect is the whole challenge of the voyage |
| 20 | Michael Lawrence , the Prudential 's group finance director , is to be the next chairman of the 100 Group , the influential forum for finance directors from the UK 's top public and private companies . |
| 21 | And Lew Platt , 51 , is to be the next president and chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Co following John Young 's retirement on October 31 . |
| 22 | The witches tell him that he is to be the next king , and instead of leaving the matter to take its natural course , he murders the King , and claims the throne . |
| 23 | The Drummond Lectures were given by another former member of staff , Professor Stewart Sutherland , Vice-Chancellor of the University of London , and who , it was recently announced , is to be the next Principal of the University of Edinburgh . |
| 24 | It was like being the last man alive on earth . |
| 25 | However , he tried some of the journalistic pieces in what was to be the second posthumous volume . |
| 26 | When the Eighth Army turned and stood for what was to be the first battle of Alamein , a tiny force consisting of the 11th Field Regiment and a part of the Essex Regiment was rushed to the Ruweisat Ridge with orders to plug the vital gap between the South African positions on the coast and the New Zealanders on the edge of the Quattara Depression . |
| 27 | During his period in England from 1831 to 1832 , in what was to be the first of several such sojourns , Louis-Napoleon met his uncle Joseph — only to be received with a glacial politeness and a lecture on his Italian escapade . |
| 28 | It was an insignificant moment , no one there would have thought that it was to be the first movement in such a great drama , not only for them but also for those watching . |
| 29 | His litter sister Zola , owned by Mrs Pinkerton , was to be the first bitch show champion . |
| 30 | This litter , born on 5 December 1965 , was to be the first born in Victoria and was registered under the Heatherglen prefix . |