Example sentences of "[be] the [num ord] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 2 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 3 | It might as well have been the last rites . |
| 4 | These had been the last words that had passed between them . |
| 5 | These are the 13th championships and they 're being staged in Oxford for the first time . |
| 6 | Along with Gloucestershire County Council , on which no party holds overall control , they are the first authorities hit by capping under the new Council Tax system . |
| 7 | For example , here are the first lines of an article warning against OTC-traded Bio-Isolates : " Watch out , watch out … |
| 8 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 9 | The first owner of the right is the designer unless the design is created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment in which cases the commissioner or the employer respectively are the first owners of the right , subject to any written agreement to the contrary . |
| 10 | These are the first answers given , but in reply to further questions the number of women making at least one negative reference increases to twenty-seven — sixty-eight per cent of the sample . |
| 11 | Last night as the Yugoslavs camped out at St Peter 's School in Northampton , Mr Smith , 52 , said : ‘ I believe these are the first refugees to come across as a group . |
| 12 | These are the first fruits of a beginning letter to all the London embassies . |
| 13 | These are the first Cambodians to graduate from a rehabilitation programme at Wat Thom , a disused temple in Phnom Penh . |
| 14 | Erm but in the meantime those are the first essays I can er erm are you erm , working on that or thinking about that ? |
| 15 | Well , not just women , men as well , but mothers are the first teachers of the young . |
| 16 | Elena Pinguli and Mentor Belalla , both 17 , are the first Albanians to be allowed to study abroad for 50 years and are throwing themselves into college life with typical Albanian verve . |
| 17 | The SRY homologues , together with the mouse Ube1y homologues , are the first genes to be identified on the marsupial Y chromosome . |
| 18 | These are the first principles of Orc generalship … the things that everybody learns pretty quickly . |
| 19 | Ah these are the first ones I 've . |
| 20 | Those are the first ones you contact but you still have to sit down with one of the estate agents and say , Well look what sort of business do you give them ? |
| 21 | After two settled years there are the first signs of imminent change in Taylor 's goalkeeping plans , with first choice Chris Woods suffering an alarming dip in form in the last month . |
| 22 | This ones by , er actually you are the first members of the public to know about it . |
| 23 | As reported , they are the first machines from Apple to include the long-promised signal processor — Apple is using AT&T Co 's AT&T 32-bit 3210 , which will be built into the system 's motherboard and will drive such tasks as real-time data processing , speech recognition , audio compression , high-speed data communications , three-dimensional rendering , video image processing and 16-bit stereo sound . |
| 24 | The appointments are the first non-executives taken on by Lowndes since its highly leveraged takeover of Harris Queensway last year . |
| 25 | I tell him that in a depression , manners are the first casualties . |
| 26 | The accounts , which have been audited represent the CIT in the UK and are the first accounts of the Limited company . |
| 27 | And harder than the first months are the first weeks . |
| 28 | These are the first words that Al Jourgensen ever said to me . |
| 29 | The sirens are cast solid , like Geometric bronzes , but the griffin-heads are the first examples in Greece of hollow-casting , another thing now learnt from the East of immense importance for Greek art ( below , pp. 50f . ) . |
| 30 | The F-Plan calorie and fibre charts are the first charts to make it possible to keep to the correct number of calories and , at the same time , to choose the foods which will be of most help in making slimming both easier and speedier . |