Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] be the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was the head of the ‘ Linguistics Section ’ of the Department , and in 1974 this became the ‘ Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language ’ , of which I was the first head . |
| 2 | The great task , for someone such as Cis , was to make of her own house — a three-bedroom semi-detached in which they were the first occupiers — a place of comfort and gleaming triumph against the odds . |
| 3 | The second is that it is in relation to this period that one finds a quite separate account of the origins of the Muftilik advanced , namely Katib Celebi 's view that the office originated not with Molla Fenari in Bursa or Fahreddin Acemi in Edirne but rather with Hizir Bey in Istanbul , the Muftilik being for his tenure , and for some time alter , a to the post of kadi of Istanbul , of which he was the first holder . |
| 4 | James Huntingford , an attorney of Odiham , was appointed secretary ; he was later to become secretary of the London committee , an executive offshoot of the Odiham Agricultural Society which was eventually to undertake the actual institution of the London Veterinary College , of which he was the first secretary . |
| 5 | We worked together to form the committee for the release of Soviet Jewry , of which he was the first secretary and I the first chairman . |
| 6 | CD began writing up his travels for the Daily News , of which he was the first editor , and 8 ‘ Travelling Letters ’ appeared there between 21 Jan. and 11 Mar. 1846 , ending with the section entitled ‘ Piacenza to Bologna ’ in the book ; the ‘ Travelling Letters ’ were revised , and the remaining sections written for its publication as Pictures from Italy in May 1846 ( Bradbury & Evans , 1 vol . ) . |
| 7 | The stone church built by St Wilfrid in the seventh century enlarged the small monastery of which he was the second abbot . |
| 8 | ‘ But if you 'd like me to be rude , I can assure you you 're the last person I wanted to bump into . ’ |
| 9 | SIR JACOB : " T would have been strange indeed if someone had not translated this fine flower from the dunghill to the garden , Madam , let me tell you you are the first lady I have seen who has exceeded expectation . |
| 10 | Also it 's called another thing , heavenly Jerusalem with millions of angels in general assembly and the congregation of the first one which is the first fruits are n't they ? |
| 11 | Well they , they said at that meeting they 'd hoped to have their system for the next one which is the seventeenth October |
| 12 | because we we 're the third party we 're not allowed to appeal against it |
| 13 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 14 | She asked him what was the first sentence he had ever learned in English . |
| 15 | You ca n't ignore it it 's the first thing a buyer will , a buyer 's survey will pick up , especially as it was mentioned in our survey |
| 16 | He he was the last resort of anybody I knew . |
| 17 | ‘ If a painter asked me what was the first step necessary for painting a table ’ Picasso remarked to a friend at this time , ‘ I should say , measure it . ’ |
| 18 | " So am I. It was the last thing I expected or wanted to happen . " |
| 19 | So the first thing is what what 's the first thing you do ? |
| 20 | All he did was throw up a question mark — was Britain doing the right thing ? — but to us it was the first sign that someone out there thought that government strategy might be wrong . |