Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 2 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 3 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 4 | In January 1993 they will be publishing the first English translation of Alois Riegel 's nineteenth century book on the history of ornament . |
| 5 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll be leading the first bird-watching tour in just four days . |
| 7 | But I find myself left with what may be called the first main proposition of this book : |
| 8 | We shall be considering the first three in this Lecture , paying particular attention to the case of a tax on capital income . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's either that or I 'll be spending the next million years in a coal measure . |
| 10 | will be spending the next few months at her home in Italy while she recovers from an attack of shingles . |
| 11 | Other people in the public eye would be reading the first seven , and his grandfather the ninth . |
| 12 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara claims to be showing the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |