Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Falcon Scott leaves New Zealand on his doomed bid to be the first to reach the South Pole . |
| 2 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 3 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 4 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 5 | A race to be the first man at the South Pole , in Antarctica . |
| 6 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 7 | So , in the morning , whatever our true inclinations , we practically trample each other in our race to be the first one up and doing . |
| 8 | The Institute of Public Relations , he wagers , has yet to acknowledge Paul Joseph Goebbels 's claim to being the first ‘ fully-fledged image-maker ’ . |
| 9 | Your claim to be the first publication to print dog obituaries made me wonder how many other readers remember the Tail-wagger magazine , which had a regular In Memoriam column . |
| 10 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 11 | The international Consultative Committee for the cultural programme of the Council of Europe , made up of European museum directors , chose the exhibition to be the next in the series of twenty-one shows which has included ‘ The French Revolution and Europe ’ , also held in Paris ( 1989 ) , ‘ The Portuguese discoveries and Renaissance Europe ’ ( Lisbon , 1983 ) and ‘ Gothic art in Europe ’ ( 1968 ) . |
| 12 | With their people weary of war , the Elves of the Sixth Council selected Bel-Korhadris of Saphery to be the next Phoenix King . |
| 13 | Many readers take the moral to be the last two lines of the poem , which seem to mean ‘ Be kind to animals ’ . |
| 14 | AIR AND ANGELS by Susan Hill Mandarin , £3.99 THE natural choice to be the next head of his Cambridge College , a bachelor philosopher in his fifties , sees a 15-year-old girl standing on a bridge and instantly , desperately falls in love with her . |
| 15 | Emlyn Williams was precisely the right man to be the next guru . |
| 16 | I had felt this incident to be the last straw , but it was n't — quite As a misfit , I was not entirely alone . |
| 17 | There is , of course , great competition to be the last to lay , and the privilege is taken by the dominant female . |
| 18 | Nimbus believes HyperSparc may even leapfrog Viking to be the first of the superscalars to become available to all-comers . |
| 19 | ‘ The Masters is important also , but if I have to choose I would prefer the Davis Cup to be the next big thing to win . ’ |
| 20 | Males compete mainly , say Packer and Pusey , by trying to anticipate oestrous in a female to be the first to consort with her . |
| 21 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 22 | She wanted the strength to be the first to pull away but it would n't come , that little bit extra that would separate desire from decency . |
| 23 | I 've seen Labour inspired Trade Union control of hospitals , I 've seen the patient to be the last in Labour 's priorities |
| 24 | Believing this to be the case , Roshanara stole the Imperial seal and used it to forge an order that proclaimed Aurangzeb 's nine-year-old youngest son to be the next Emperor in preference to the rightful heir . |
| 25 | Her crown , in some respects the most resplendent , proved in fact to be the last ever made for a Russian ruler . |