Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [pers pn] [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next week sees the anniversary of the battle and it is the 75th anniversary of the Air Force . |
| 2 | Er I remember it so vividly because it , at our house it was quite er an event because mother and father were so Labour and my brother , who erm he , I do n't know why , he 's not alive today and I ca n't so I , and I 've no idea , I do n't think I ever asked him because I 'd be too young , but I do know that the friction was in the house because he was working for the Conservative and she was the first woman that we ever elected er she , this , this lady did . |
| 3 | ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said . |
| 4 | ‘ This was a new award and I 'm the first to get it , ’ said Lee . |
| 5 | Millet and I were the first to check that tower , after Falconer 's body was discovered by a guard . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had that much money and it was the first real money I had ever made , ’ said the businessman at last , ‘ I 'd put a quarter of it in government savings bonds , and with the rest of it I 'd buy as much land or property in and around Tollemarche and Edmonton as I could lay my hands on . ’ |
| 7 | she said you 've got the second biggest cock or you are the second biggest cock she 's ever seen ? |
| 8 | ‘ Once we got to the hospital I could feel her head and it was the first moment it all became real for me . |
| 9 | ‘ I first came across Virginia Woolf through Orlando when I was a teenage person and it was the first time that I felt really addressed by a writer , ’ she says . |
| 10 | Now I mentioned that this was Chest Week and it 's the first time that the er Chest , Heart and Stroke Association have had a , a , a week specifically aimed at people with chest problems , or , or looking at chest problems . |
| 11 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 12 | I had the odd George II and George III copper , but these were in the minority and it was the 17th century coinage that was popping up with some regularity . |
| 13 | The Lincoln Red 's breed society has a pioneering spirit : it was the first to introduce beef recording and it was the first to dehorn its breed deliberately , dropping its ‘ Shorthorn ’ tag by 1960 . |
| 14 | I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy . |
| 15 | It 's here , it 's called Thirsty Camel and it 's the first spring water for men ! |
| 16 | There are regional labs covering the whole country but ours was the first . |
| 17 | ‘ Carmen regards him as a kind of guru and I 'm the first to admit he 's been an invaluable catalyst in her career , but I wish he could talk about something other than medicine . ’ |
| 18 | We were a very respectable family and I was the second child . |
| 19 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | ‘ Yow tell yer Dad everythink but I 'm the last to be told . ’ |