Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOSHIKO TAKEDA , 25-year-old wife of a British businessman , has been appointed the first full-time Japanese tour guide at Dove Cottage , Grasmere , the Lake District home of William Wordsworth , writes Gerald Bartlett . |
| 2 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 3 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 4 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 5 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 6 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |