Example sentences of "[verb] [be] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 2 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 3 | iii ) The most recent pilot course has been the first Post-Graduate Diploma course in Interpreting Training Techniques , funded , like the other pilots , by the Nuffield Foundation and held at the Polytechnic of Central London in 1989 . |
| 4 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 5 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 6 | Denying entitlement to whole groups of the population has been the third aim , and this has been particularly noticeable in the case of young claimants . |
| 7 | VG LIMS is the first Laboratory Information Management Systems to be available on the RS60000 series of IMB computers and represents a major breakthrough in this field . |
| 8 | The line to be edited is the second line in the file E.CLI . |
| 9 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |
| 10 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 11 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 12 | For some this they hope is the first step on the road to a more stable musicl career to others it is just a bit of fun . |
| 13 | The day I have requested is the first day of the school holidays — Thursday 21st December at 10.45 am . |
| 14 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 15 | But what Brown had overlooked was the First Rule of the Conventional Car Maker : sell as many of the same cars as you can in order to make the most money for the least expenditure . |
| 16 | I 'm just you 're just making me think actually because I saw in one of the papers this morning erm a headline , if I can find it , it said something to the effect that — yes here it is , in the Independent , it says ‘ TV soaps are first to survive rescheduling ’ and it goes on to tell us that the British television schedules as we all know were the first casualties of war in the Gulf except for the nation 's daily diet of Australian soap . |
| 17 | The earliest he cites is the first side of ‘ A Miniature Concert ’ , recorded on 26 February 1925 and issued on Victor 35753 ( and in Britain on Zonophone A302 ) . |
| 18 | It 's erm now we 're doing this you know so that the Holy Spirit , as you er remember is the third person in the trinity that we call God . |
| 19 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 20 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 21 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 22 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 23 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 24 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 25 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 26 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 27 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 28 | P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier . |
| 29 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 30 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |