Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sophie Parke was only the third child in Britain to receive two hearts in a piggy back style transplant . |
| 2 | Jane Eyre was not the first book that Charlotte had sent to a publisher . |
| 3 | Certainly Charles Wheeler is n't the first priest in the Church to get his kicks like that . ’ |
| 4 | IBM was not the first company to produce mainframe computers ( Remington Rand , Raytheon and Philco were all pioneers ) , but it was the first to make vast first-mover investments in integrated production , distribution and management for the introduction of its System 360 in 1964 . |
| 5 | Maastricht was not the last word on the development and future of Europe . |
| 6 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 7 | Going to the Spice Islands was only the last stage of increasingly ambitious ventures . |
| 8 | Pacepa was not the first defector from the world of Soviet bloc secret services to make such a claim . |
| 9 | Mike is always the first man on the drive , where it really hurts , and he can stay on his feet . |
| 10 | At the mini-roundabout turn right into Old Road and Finch Close is then the fifth turning on the right hand side . |
| 11 | Ethernet was n't the first LAN standard , but it was the first that could claim to be non-proprietary ( many vendors sell Ethernet-compatible adaptors ) , cheap ( thanks to its use of readily available , low-cost cabling — telephone-wire twisted pair or TV-aerial co-ax ) , and flexible ( Ethernet is equally at home with small starter systems and huge network layouts ) . |
| 12 | INXS are only the second Aussie band to crash into the album charts at No 1 . |
| 13 | Britain was almost the last country in Western Europe to legislate , though it had been in Britain that the debate had originated decades earlier . |
| 14 | To return to Griffith 's experiments , Griffith was not the first man to draw strong glass fibres but he was probably the first man to do it in a systematic way and to provide a plausible explanation of the results . |
| 15 | Historians will want to examine whether Mr Clinton was really the first choice of those new Democrats , or merely stepped into a breach when others , such as Sam Nunn , a senator from Georgia , or Al Gore , now the vice-president , were measured and found wanting . |
| 16 | ‘ The bomb in Newtownards was not the first time Connors Chemists has had to cope with the aftermath of a blast . ’ |
| 17 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 18 | Mr Mackie is only the second person to stand trial in Scotland charged with insider dealing . |
| 19 | This type of discourse — free indirect speech or free indirect style — is peculiar to the novel ; it makes its appearance in the late eighteenth century and Jane Austen was probably the first novelist to realise its full potential . |
| 20 | Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold . |
| 21 | Harry Taylor is only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 22 | And , certainly , no can argue that the Amstel is not the last word in luxury . |
| 23 | Oxford 's 20 year old Liz Chick is only the 6th woman to take part . |
| 24 | Laura is only the ninth child in the world to survive the double transplant . |
| 25 | Karajan is not the first conductor to be affected by this . |
| 26 | Mr Hughes is not the first critic to find in Shakespeare 's works a dominant , all-informing pattern , or ‘ myth ’ , but Hughes 's myth exceeds all others in the extent of its ramifications . |
| 27 | McLean is not the first bouncer to have been tried for Murder and certainly not the first bouncer to have been up on charges of serious violence . |
| 28 | Roger was also the first bishop of Coventry and Lichfield to keep an episcopal register ( later lost ) . |
| 29 | The fight in Birkenhead was not the first time that Mr Field had crossed swords with the Labour left . |