Example sentences of "[adj] [noun prp] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 2 | That was the fifth of January , that was old Yule was the fifth of January was January was y Old Christmas , er Chris er Yule Day was old Christmas day . |
| 3 | Latin America was the first region of the South to change all that , partly because of the influence of their regional organisation of communication institutions ( FELAFACS ) . |
| 4 | Emily and her husband , and little Alexander were the first residents at No 28 . |
| 5 | Labour-controlled Oxford is the second highest of the 293 County Districts in the Country . |
| 6 | Twelve-year-old Tim was the first patient on the £500,000 scanner as he clung to life after suffering horrific head injuries in the Warrington bombing outrage . |
| 7 | Good Friday is the thirteenth of May so it 's not too bad . |
| 8 | The 11.00 on Good Friday was the first passenger train over the rebuilt Rheidol Bridge which is a particulary fine structure . |
| 9 | The Great Exemplar was the first life of Christ in the English language . |
| 10 | Albert Boime 's The Art of the Macchia and the Risorgimento : Representing Culture and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Italy is the first extended study of the Macchiaioli in English ( £43.95 , $55 ) . |
| 11 | If the meticulous Davis was the last player one would expect to lose in such a manner , the six-times Masters champion retained his reputation for sportsmanship by the grace with which he accepted the verdict . |
| 12 | Jacqueline Moore was pregnant when sentenced and her eight-year-daughter Nikki was the first child born in a Northern Ireland prison . |
| 13 | Polis life was further advanced there — Pindar speaks of ‘ the cities ’ of the Aleuads — and Greek inscriptions go back to earlier dates ( extant ones start c .550 , L. H. Jeffery ( 1961 ) Local Scripts of Archaic Greece , p. 98 , no. 1 , a sacred law ; and Pausanias ( x. 16 ) says that a statue dedicated by a Thessalian called Echekratidas was the first dedication ever made at Delphi ) . |
| 14 | Hard-working , hard-drinking Keith is the first to admit he 's not easy to live with . |