Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amongst them are found the last adepts of controlled altered states , out-of-the-body experience , psycho-navigation , environmental wisdom and time-honoured alternative methods of giving birth , healing , living and dying . |
| 2 | and I 'm born the last day in April . |
| 3 | As a married man over 75 and on a modest income , you are allowed the first £6,875 free of tax . |
| 4 | As you were over 75 and on a modest income , you were allowed the first £4,180 tax free . |
| 5 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 6 | ‘ Do you think I 'm jealous of Eleanor because she 's spent the last four years with you , and I have n't ? ’ |
| 7 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 8 | She advanced this theory to the child psychoanalyst to whom she was delivered the next day . |
| 9 | She was woken the next morning by Bridget , who appeared in her room carrying a cup of tea and a copy of the Sunday Herald . |
| 10 | We are promised the last word in London nightclubs , BBQ , dancing , live bands , cabaret , live band karaoke , mystery entertainments and a huge amount of fun . |
| 11 | We were awakened the next morning by Sir Henry Bowyer 's rough arrival accompanied by at least a dozen likely-looking rogues . |
| 12 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 13 | Taking two , freshly caught Highland sea-trout , he placed them on the mud flats below the bridge , where they were found the next morning . |
| 14 | SunSoft says it 's reached the second milestone in its Project DOE ( Distributed Objects Everywhere ) programme and completed a distributed object system consisting of the DOMF ( Distributed Object Management Facility ) , SunSoft 's implementation of the Object Management Group 's CORBA specification , and a set of system objects . |
| 15 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 16 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 17 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 18 | But he 's done the next best thing by getting himself a uniform and a car . |
| 19 | Worse , he 's spent the last hour with someone from the Daily Express . |
| 20 | Phil Farrand says that he 's spent the last two years building the car and has put hours of work into it … his machine runs on the same amount of power that drives a toaster or a hair dryer so much for ceremony … with the sun blazing down its time to race south … the track is the main Stewart Highway … |
| 21 | It was dated the fifteenth of April nineteen ninety three . |
| 22 | It was agreed the next day that I was run down . |
| 23 | It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through . |
| 24 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 25 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 26 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 27 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 28 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 29 | He was discovered the next morning by a boy on his way to school . |