Example sentences of "[vb -s] be the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | What are now her Remains were the First fruits of her Studies … |
| 9 | We 're passed that now we 're trying to give people more direction , get them involved er this is the first year we 've able to do it in a sense , properly cos it 's been the first year , with all due respect to all the work you 've done in the past , we 've got five year tutors . |
| 10 | Never been away , it 's been the last month |
| 11 | It has begun shipping what it claims is the first software engineering tool designed to regenerate AS/400 applications to run on Unix-based workstations quickly and easily , and has been demonstrating the AS/SET WDK-U product in Anaheim , California at the semiannual conference of Common , the IBM mid-range users group . |
| 12 | 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 . |