Example sentences of "he is the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is the fifth manager to leave Crewe Park in the last two years following in the footsteps of Paul O'Gara , Terry Nicholson , Jack Walsh and Sammy Watson , who all parted company with the club last season . |
| 2 | He is the first of a long line of distinguished French portrait sculptors . |
| 3 | He is the first or second greatest miler in the last 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | He is the first of the so-called Marcos cronies to have stood up to the Presidential Commission on Good Government , and as a result is seen as a man of action . |
| 5 | He is the first frightening indication of Tokyo 's apparent infatuation with rap . |
| 6 | He is the first player to be sent off in a Manchester derby since 1974 , when both Lou Macari and Mike Doyle were dismissed . |
| 7 | He is the first Southerner to succeed in New York , and his aides were happily parodying the Sinatra song about the Big Apple : ‘ If we can make it here , we 'll make it anywhere . ’ |
| 8 | He is the first to leap ashore , to the delight and relief of the garrison commander . |
| 9 | He is the first today . |
| 10 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |
| 11 | He is the first to admit that he was not the best of patients . |
| 12 | He is the first and , outliving Dean and Clift , the last of the great Hollywood rebels . |
| 13 | He is the first doctor in Britain to successfully attempt the three-step microsurgery . |
| 14 | Not least because he is the first senior politician for some time to write a book that is stylish , witty , beautifully observed and therefore vastly superior to the plodding tone employed by most ex-Cabinet ministers who confuse being there with being able to write an interesting account of what happened . |
| 15 | And he is the first to quit because of revelations about his private life since Energy Minister Cecil Parkinson admitted fathering a child by his secretary almost nine years ago . |
| 16 | He is the first reigning Formula One world champion to make the switch and Haas , a wealthy ex-racer , admitted : ‘ We know he had a fabulous offer from Ferrari . |
| 17 | But he is the first to admit that the thought of SummerSlam ‘ 92 has set his knees a-trembling . |
| 18 | Alan Smith is now recognised by many as the man who overhauled the NME with , as he is the first to admit , the backing of an extremely gifted team comprising ex-musician Roy Carr , deputy editor Nick Logan and two of the leading lights from the demi-world of underground journalism , Charles Shaar Murray and Nick Kent . |
| 19 | He is the first one on the list to be killed . |
| 20 | He is the first historian who purports to give us the texts which Lanfranc had quoted in 1072- and , of course , they now contain the forged additions . |
| 21 | He is the first critic in print to notice the ‘ balanced predominance of I and thou ’ in Shakespeare 's Sonnets , in the proportion 51.1 per cent to 48.9 per cent . |
| 22 | He is the first star who might actually change things . |
| 23 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 24 | Although there have been several since , he is the first known Westerner to have been eaten by a Komodo Dragon . |
| 25 | I mean Stephen is a heck of a long time ago , he 's the very first martyr , and we although we celebrate his feast day still on December the twenty sixth because he is the first martyr , he 's quite a long way away . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of all the people you do not want to get mixed up with he is the first and the last . |
| 28 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 29 | He is an isolated figure in the Government because he is the first Minister whom I have heard speak highly of the work of the Cambridge school . |
| 30 | 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 ? |