Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 2 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 3 | The immediate post-war years had been the last classic period of the film as social sermon and one can almost sense the relief as the studios discovered that social context did not need quite as much emphasis . |
| 4 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 5 | The toolset , which Cadre claims is the first integrated solution covering maintenance , test and reuse of existing software , includes six modules : system understanding , a reverse engineering tool for ‘ complete design recovery of C source programs ’ ; function understanding , producing control flow graphs and data and control complexity metrics ; the construction module , which automates the building of source code from Ensemble 's design environment ; test case generation , which automatically builds in test cases at function , unit or subsystem level ; test verification ; and a documentation module . |
| 6 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 7 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 8 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 9 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 10 | When Penguin New Writing began to incorporate photogravure illustrations in 1942 , Vaughan had been the first contemporary artist to have his work reproduced . |