Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not the first Cabinet minister from Shotts . |
| 2 | He is n't the first man to leave his wife and , though I understand your instinct to protect your sister , surely she could and should fight her own battles ? ’ |
| 3 | He is actually the third Aldabra tortoise imported for the governor 's garden , each of his predecessors , however , lived for about a century . |
| 4 | Boon 's run-gathering in this series — he is only the fifth Australian after Don Bradman , Kim Hughes , Bob Simpson and Border to score more than 500 in a series against India — has been a spectacular highlight in a summer of relatively poor returns from a supposedly top-flight batting line-up . |
| 5 | He is only the fourth Irishman to win the award since it was introduced in 1951 , and the first since former world featherweight champion Barry McGuigan ten years ago . |
| 6 | Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit is one of Japan 's most famous characters : he is often the first Englishman encountered by young readers , and the miniature quality of Potter 's stories and illustrations strikes some deep chord in the Japanese heart . |
| 7 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 8 | He 's not the first gentleman to turn to crime to pay off his debts , but I suspect that had we brought him before a court he would have been declared insane . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He 's not the first striker to go a few games without scoring , ’ Alex Smith , the Aberdeen manager , said . |
| 10 | Although he 's only the second son and will never be king himself , he 's still an important man and very popular , I hear , with many Ruritanians . |
| 11 | He was dead the last time I saw him . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was probably the first man to solo 8a on French rock ; made the first winter lone ascent of the South Face of the Aiguille du Fou ( scene of Alan Rouse 's famed injury during an earlier , summer , solo ) and also made one of the most prestigious ascents in the area with his solo of Divine Providence — Patrick Gabarrou 's 1984 desperate on the Grand Pilier d'Angle buttress on Mont Blanc . |
| 14 | Jamie knew that wherever he was in the wild world , far from his home , he was not the first Scotsman to hammer at the gate . |
| 15 | Blake suspected that he was not the first person who had asked himself that question or had come to the same irrational conclusion . |
| 16 | He was also the first sprinter in Britain to use starting blocks . |
| 17 | He was also the first person to use coal gas for lighting purposes . |
| 18 | He was also the first man to use the word ‘ Americanism ’ in 1781 . |
| 19 | ‘ He was also the first sportsman to become a celebrity . |
| 20 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 21 | He was also the first Protestant to become President of the overwhelmingly Catholic country . |
| 22 | Hervey , a Breton , was appointed bishop , the first of a long series of members of the English royal court to be provided with a Welsh see : he was also the first bishop in Wales to come under the authority of an English archbishop . |
| 23 | ‘ But my strategy was clear and once Riccardo had gone out — and he was really the last chance of anybody catching me — I just had to stay calm and not worry about winning . ’ |
| 24 | erm fucking indoor murder ball , the seat , cushion and stuff like that , its fucking well out of order piss up games oh that 's right I think we played in , I think we played , you know that British bull dog thing ? , we managed to clear all the fucking the nappy chair this and the chairs out the way , we were playing this British bull dog sort of thing and the only thing , the only , the only difference was when you got caught , got , everybody was fucking giving you a few thumps in the arm , for good measure like , and we played about four of this and every time this cocky little son of a bitch did n't get caught , he was always the last person , so we fucking said , we said , me and this other guy 's that are in our troop and that er , we said right we 'll get him , so when , when everybody sort of go for it right just after the one person in the middle , said fucking just get this guy and fucking pin him down and do something to him right , we did n't , I think we said we 'd just get him , yeah that 's a good idea , so he 's gone right go and his mate he 's fucking took off two steps and there 's eight of us fucking dived on top of him , what the fucking , he 's struggling , get off you cunt so we pinned him down and at first we was just going to de-bag him in front of the women , we 've taken his boots off and his trousers and that and shave his bollocks , yeah the whole fucking yeah , it was like an audience , all that they sort of gathered up the chairs and the tables fuck have his bollocks shaved . |
| 25 | More , he was almost the last representative of Tory paternalism of the old one-nation type , an important source of consolidation within the Cabinet . |
| 26 | Between 1856 and 1859 he travelled to Palestine and Syria and up the Nile beyond the sixth cataract ; he believed he was only the second European to have gone so far . |
| 27 | He was only the second man she had ever slept with . |
| 28 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |
| 29 | Reportedly he was only the third choice for the post . |