Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [verb] be [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 2 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it . |
| 5 | Anthony 's death had been the last straw . |