Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was one of the few ‘ non-official ’ witnesses at the inquiry into what I trust is the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight . |
| 2 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 3 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 4 | It was the era of Len Battersby , Inspector , who had been the last Chief Preventive Officer on the revenue crew of the old Vigilant . |
| 5 | Where you study is the first important step towards survival and success as a student . |
| 6 | Finally , there had been the last few months , when everything had fallen apart with such shattering swiftness . |
| 7 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 8 | Data General also expanded the storage options available in its Clariion range with what it claims is the first high-performance fail-safe tape array for Unix . |
| 9 | IPL Systems Inc , Waltham , Massachusetts is taking on IBM Corp with what it claims is the first 9337-compatible disk array subsystem for AS/400 users . |
| 10 | Ungermann-Bass has also announced what it claims is the first multi-protocol communications product for remote personal computers and terminals to be fully integrated into the hub environment . |
| 11 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |