Example sentences of "have be the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lemonheads have been touring for about three months , first in America and now in Europe , and this has been the first real glitch they 've encountered . |
| 2 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 3 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 4 | Kepler , a spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the planet 's atmosphere , magnetic field and gravitational field , would have been the first European planetary mission . |
| 5 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 6 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 7 | If Louis , Martin 's brother-in-law , was in fact the son of Louis and Marie Francard , then he would have been the last Parisian descendant of the line of Louis I Marriage contract of Jacques le Romain , 1728 |
| 8 | It might have been the fourth 60 on Tour this season , but his 12-under-par return was the lowest to par ever in Europe . |
| 9 | For all we know , it could have been the 500th unnecessary and spoiling miscarriage of justice since Test matches were first televised with the playback facility . |
| 10 | Bert Röling , the Dutch international lawyer who died in early 1985 , having been the last surviving judge from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo , addressed the nuclear weapons issue as much in terms of purported prudential policy-making as in terms of legal principle . |
| 11 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I am proud to have been the first British actor to play the American rock hero in his own homeland . |
| 13 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 14 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
| 15 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 16 | When Penguin New Writing began to incorporate photogravure illustrations in 1942 , Vaughan had been the first contemporary artist to have his work reproduced . |
| 17 | To those humans who , given mastery of space , preferred to vault across it than to linger in orbit and build there , Mars and its hurtling moons had been the first great benefit of the gift . |
| 18 | President Assad had been the first Arab leader to criticize the Iraqi invasion , but there was considerable apprehension in the West that Saddam Hussein 's emergence as a focus of anti-Western Arab radicalism might open the way to a rapprochement between Iraq and Syria . |
| 19 | It had been the first definite sign that something was wrong ; though she had been moody and withdrawn for some weeks before , he had thought this a normal reaction to her baby 's death . |
| 20 | A month before , Goma had been the first Romanian to try to imitate the initiative of the dissidents of Czechoslovakia . |
| 21 | This place had been the first German prison camp built specifically for British air-crew . |
| 22 | Chicago-born Mainbocher had been the first American to open a couture house in Paris — the trousseau and wedding dress of Wallis Simpson were celebrated triumphs — and , based in New York from the early war years , remained the chosen couturier of the stars of American society and stage . |
| 23 | It was ancient , a nest of shining metal that had been the first cis-lunar colony , the first man-made world that orbited around mankind 's ancestral home . |
| 24 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 25 | It was the era of Len Battersby , Inspector , who had been the last Chief Preventive Officer on the revenue crew of the old Vigilant . |
| 26 | The immediate post-war years had been the last classic period of the film as social sermon and one can almost sense the relief as the studios discovered that social context did not need quite as much emphasis . |
| 27 | Finally , there had been the last few months , when everything had fallen apart with such shattering swiftness . |
| 28 | As the most advanced part of the French colonial empire Vietnam in 1945 might , perhaps , by a sort of inductive leap , have been the first French colony to become independent . |
| 29 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |