Example sentences of "[num] he [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At just 46 he is the third youngest president of all time and five years younger than the voice of rebellious youth , Bob Dylan . |
| 2 | When he joined the Party in 1922 he was the only member in Danzig , and had to wait until after Hitler was released from the Landsberg prison and the Party was re-launched before he could become active on its behalf . |
| 3 | By the end of the Eighties he was the youngest captain in the crack Guards Regiment Feliks Dzerzhinsky . |
| 4 | In 1930 he was the youngest member of the Reichstag and was considered by all to be a high-flyer . |
| 5 | From 1971 to 1977 he was the head coach of the Washington Redskins professional football team , and turned what had been a lacklustre bunch into a city 's obsession . |
| 6 | On 6 May 1628 he was the first to propose proceeding through the Petition of Right , although he did not use the phrase , and the House waited for word from Coke before acting . |
| 7 | In 1835 he was the third serjeant-at-law in Ireland and , shortly afterwards , second serjeant . |
| 8 | In the 1920s he was the closest political friend of the prime minister , Stanley Baldwin , supporting him in leadership crises in 1923 and 1929–31 , and contributing much to the tone of Baldwinite Conservatism — an emphasis upon moral seriousness and social responsibility , a concern to soothe class feelings , and deep distrust of Lloyd George . |
| 9 | Samuel Fox Esq was born in 1815 , and when he died in 1887 he was the first person to be buried in the cemetery attached to the church . |
| 10 | In 1887 he was the first witness called before the select commission on forestry . |
| 11 | From 1946 to 1948 he was the last deputy chairman of the Southern Railway before nationalization . |
| 12 | Much is made of the age factor by Mr Tim Devlin , the Conservative defender of a 774 majority , for at 32 he is the youngest contender in the country 's closest three-way spilt . |
| 13 | At eighteen he 's the best in the land … |
| 14 | At eighteen he 's the best in the land … |
| 15 | In 1933 he joined the Old Vic Company for an impressive range of stage work ( Henry VIII again , The Cherry Orchard , Macbeth , Measure for Measure , The Tempest ) and in 1936 he was the first English actor ever to be invited to appear at the Comédie Française in Paris , where he played Molière 's Le Médecin Malgré Lui . |
| 16 | In his Essay on Population in 1803 he was the first person to consider what would happen if the world 's population were to continue to grow unabated . |
| 17 | At 100–1 he was the longest-priced winner in the history of the race , but that was not the point . |