Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 3 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 4 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As the last record added is the first in the overflow chain , it is helpful if this physical order is also the logical order of the record keys . |
| 7 | With either system , the easiest place to add is the last light in the circuit , which is often the hall or landing light . |
| 8 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 9 | English Literature 1 is governed by the concept of literary theory and literary period : the theory has a weighting towards narrative , and the period studied is the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 11 | I ca n't imagine her letting the Kronweiser book be the last word . ’ |
| 12 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 13 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 14 | Indeed , it appears that an unknown Spanish haulier on this sailing had been the first trucker to actually receive a tangible benefit from the Single Market . |
| 15 | Last night had been the last straw . |
| 16 | While most interest has been attracted by the expensive buys , one of the cheapest lots on offer has been the first to grade . |
| 17 | But , then , the most difficult movement to play is the third . |
| 18 | The journey I had just completed in the Arussi had been the first I had undertaken in the highlands of Abyssinia . |
| 19 | Searching the flat had been the last thing on his mind , but Bodie said , ‘ Malone 's boys are on it now . ’ |
| 20 | Such sharing of the superego constitutes what we call religion ; and the particular religious form which he assumed was that of the animal totem , a choice appropriate in the new hunting culture and a consequence of the fact that the primal father had been the last of the truly animal hominids . |
| 21 | Virtually the whole movement comprises a double canon which begins as in the second violin and viola parts given in Example 90 ( these parts first being played by first violin and viola ) : The point at which our example begins is the first entry of the full orchestra , with the first and second violins in one canon and the violas and basses in another . |
| 22 | The report , which the Children 's Society says is the first detailed study of runaway youngsters , calls for a national centralised system for collecting statistics on missing juveniles . |
| 23 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 24 | He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it . |
| 25 | Rural housing had been the first to receive attention because it could be regarded as the responsibility of each landowner ; but the housing in towns was literally nobody 's business and could pass unnoticed , just as factory hands could be laid off in a recession , as farming labourers with tied cottages could not . |
| 26 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 27 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 28 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 29 | The Squadron had been the first to receive the Lancaster in December 1941 , and W/C d'Arcy , the Squadron 's commander , was anxious to find a Lancaster for display at Waddington as a reminder of the unit 's close association with the type . |
| 30 | The first adult Scout troop formed was the 1st Duke of Grafton 's Own ( Clapham St. Bede 's ) which was formed in 1913 , and within a few years there were also Scouters and Guiders established in London at West Ham , Green Lanes ( St. John of Beverley 's ) , North Clapham and Stoke Newington . |