Example sentences of "be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
2 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
3 | I am the first musician in my family . |
4 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
5 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
6 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
7 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
8 | While I am the last to recommend such surgery unnecessarily , there 's no doubt that in Sombro 's case it would be for his own good . |
9 | All I know is I am the last . ’ |
10 | I am the last one to leave . |
11 | I think I am the last British poop artist because the total effort of all groups now in 1990 is to be as international as possible … but I 'm not a part of it . |
12 | I am the last night of August , late . |
13 | I am half hidden in my bower , I am the last thing she sees , so I have time to examine her . |
14 | Now , I am the last man on Earth to cry , CONSPIRACY ! |
15 | ‘ I am the last person in the world who would want to inhibit the movement of the SMMB to its new form , ’ Mr Lang said , ‘ but there is little I or Michael Heseltine can do to influence the OFT . |
16 | Lifting him up , the Earl replied ‘ No , son , but I am the next best thing . ’ |
17 | 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 . |
18 | They were said to face summary execution if found guilty of complicity in what had been the fifth rumoured coup attempt since the military took power in June 1989 . |
19 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
20 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
21 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
22 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
23 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment ; x new members were recruited by Head Office in 1992 . |
24 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment . |
25 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
26 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
27 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
28 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
29 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
30 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |