Example sentences of "be [art] [num ord] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing …
2 I am the first musician in my family .
3 I am the last night of August , late .
4 ‘ I am the last person in the world who would want to inhibit the movement of the SMMB to its new form , ’ Mr Lang said , ‘ but there is little I or Michael Heseltine can do to influence the OFT .
5 Now , I am the last man on Earth to cry , CONSPIRACY !
6 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 .
7 Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first .
8 This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income .
9 His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 .
10 ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown …
11 Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country .
12 He must have been the first cousin of Man .
13 It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion .
14 Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house .
15 I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly .
16 I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD
17 I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department .
18 P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier .
19 I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall .
20 But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being .
21 A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year .
22 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 .
23 Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals .
24 A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months .
25 Tendring Council is one of the forerunners in dog control and advice , having been the first authority in Essex to employ a dog warden and introduce dog control byelaws , added Mr Coulter .
26 Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 .
27 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 .
28 It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor .
29 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 .
30 Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’
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