Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vinct was the third violin and supported ‘ Dolly ’ very loyally . |
| 2 | The Heartaches fielded three slow left-arm bowlers ( Messrs Rice , T. , Rice J. and Edmonds P.H. ) , and of course , Mr Edmonds was the last of the trio to get a bowl . |
| 3 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 4 | Mr Ashe is the second prominent US athlete to admit to having the virus . |
| 5 | Mr Ball was the first Wall Street boss to be axed since Peter Cohen went a year ago in the dismantling of another 1980s tower of babel , Shearson Lehman Hutton . |
| 6 | So far 10 teachers from Britain have been selected to travel to Australia on the scheme , but Mr Orr is the first from Northern Ireland . |
| 7 | Mr Salazar is the ninth justice minister since August 1986 . |
| 8 | The deportations have already been postponed several times under international pressure and Mr Hurd is the third Foreign Secretary to review a policy first outlined 15 months ago . |
| 9 | Western defence experts said the wording of Mr Kravchuk 's decree on Monday taking over the fleet and Mr Yeltsin 's the next day countermanding the order left room for a political solution . |
| 10 | Mr Punch is the first recorded victim of chatricide . |
| 11 | Mr Verebalavu is the third Coordinator to be appointed in the Pacific under WACC 's Animation Programme . |
| 12 | Mr Bakker is the fourth PTL official to be convicted in connection with the scandal , which began after it was revealed that he had an affair with a former church secretary , Jessica Hahn , using PTL funds to pay her hush money afterwards . |
| 13 | Martin Verrill , the chairman of Whitby Now , says Mr Edwards is the first to respond to an approach to all Whitby 's twin towns , ranging from Anchorage in Alaska to Port Stanley , the capital of the Falklands Islands , and also taking in Tonga , two places in Australia and Kauai , Hawaii . |
| 14 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 15 | Mr Carter was the first speaker . |
| 16 | Mr Bézier was the first to realise how to write a description of a curved surface that did away with lists of cumbersome mathematical co-ordinates . |
| 17 | Mr Letts is the second guard killed in 25 years . |