Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | East Anglian brewers Greene King have launched a manual on food hygiene believed to be the first of its kind in the brewing industry . |
| 2 | Petitioning for bankruptcy tends to be the last resort , but even the threat of petitioning can prove most effective . |
| 3 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 4 | The TODAY-sponsored team attempting to be the first Britons to climb Everest in winter was desolate at the defeat . |
| 5 | Immediately everyone charged around the room attempting to be the first to touch all the walls . |
| 6 | The £100,000 initiative thought to be the first of its kind in Britain aimed to keep at least ten Darlington families from eviction . |
| 7 | Confidence is high among the experienced Darc Star team hoping to be the first UK successful attempt on the mountain in winter . |
| 8 | EASTERN Electricity is sponsoring a team hoping to be the first Britons to conquer the world 's second highest mountain and survive . |
| 9 | Before I moved to Sheffield in 1970 I had done my homework and knew that for a first visit to this corner of the Peak the venue had to be the last of these three crags . |
| 10 | ( The method considered to be the next fairest — flat-rate charge per person — was preferred by only 14 per cent . ) |
| 11 | Margaret Iversen 's Alois Riegl : Art History and Theory promises to be the first general introduction to Riegl 's approach to art history , the context of his work and its relevance to contemporary critical thinking ( £22.50 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Which of you vermin wants to be the first to burn in hell ? ’ |
| 13 | In fact , however , the signing of this treaty proved to be the last hurrah of de Gaulle 's West European strategy . |
| 14 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 15 | It can be networked with other workstations including Silicon Graphics Inc Irises and IBM Corp RS/6000 via Ethernet and has what Division claims to be the first purpose-built virtual reality software environment , dVS . |
| 16 | The first one on stage had to be the first off the coach that trundled them to and fro . |