Example sentences of "[that] he be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ca n't you understand that he 's the last person on the staff I want to see upset ? ’ |
| 2 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 3 | What is striking about it is that he is the first Anglo-Saxon king known to have abdicated to go to Rome and that he went to Rome not as a baptized Christian but to seek baptism . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that he is the first Prime Minister in history to attend the annual general meeting of the National Farmers Union ? |
| 5 | It was preceded by lengthy backbench Opposition speeches which prompted Mr Christopher Chope , junior environment minister , to point out that he was the first government speaker for some four hours . |
| 6 | Fred Heatley believes that he was the first marcher to be arrested . |
| 7 | It is uncertain exactly what contributions Brother Oudart made to the development of the Champagne method but we know that he also used corks from Spain and it has been suggested that he was the first to use a liqueur de tirage . |
| 8 | There was no doubt that he was the first of an avalanche of Swedish players who might do to the golf circuits of the world what they were already doing to the tennis circuit . |
| 9 | Milling at Kingswood expanded , c .1618 , and in December 1624 Webb received a fourteen-year patent of monopoly , claiming that he was the first inventor . |
| 10 | His great claim to fame is that he was the first Englishman to build a long and lucrative career out of the dissemination of public news . |
| 11 | Vlaminck always insisted that he was the first to have ‘ discovered ’ African or Negro sculpture ( and he and his contemporaries used the term ‘ art negre ’ generically to cover not only African but also Polynesian art and indeed any tribal art at all that came their way ) and his claim was to pass into legend , although Gauguin himself possibly owned examples of African as well as Polynesian sculpture . |
| 12 | It is worth emphasising again , however , that these traditions are , apparently , of relatively recent origin and that there is early authority only for the fact that Molla Fenari was Mufti ( except , perhaps , in so far as it may be argued from Taskopruzade that he was the first Mufti , as noted at the beginning of the chapter ) . |
| 13 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 14 | His ideas are as I they they say that he was er I do n't know how much truth I that he was the first that he patented and devised the first rotating drilling machine . |
| 15 | This is to prevent a copier claiming that he was the first to develop the topography in question . |
| 16 | England international Alf 's claim to fame is that he was the first £1,000 player when in February 1905 he was bought by Middlesbrough from Sunderland . |
| 17 | When Teacher came out and rang his bell for the children to line up in neat rows , she held Frankie back so that he was the last to obey the signal . |
| 18 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 19 | He believed that he was the last hostage left . |
| 20 | He was the last missioner to the deaf to be Chairman of the BDA , and it is virtually certain that he was the last hearing person to hold this office . |
| 21 | In view of the evasive comments he later made on this latter episode ( Canon Demant tells of his being pressed by some German students and saying that he was the last person to be able to answer them ) , I believe that he had experienced a moment of horrifying self-revelation ‘ of all that he had done and been ’ and thought , which had opened up a wound that could not heal . |
| 22 | A man who 's recently died called Percy Stalwood who lived next door reckons that he was the last person to use the well . |