Example sentences of "mr [noun prp] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Vinct was the third violin and supported ‘ Dolly ’ very loyally . |
| 2 | The Heartaches fielded three slow left-arm bowlers ( Messrs Rice , T. , Rice J. and Edmonds P.H. ) , and of course , Mr Edmonds was the last of the trio to get a bowl . |
| 3 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 4 | The trial of Mr Subono and Mr Nugroho was the first time in many years that the law was used to try ‘ leftists ’ rather than Muslim activists . |
| 5 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
| 6 | Mr Rumback was the only teacher not to notice any difference . |
| 7 | Mr Ball was the first Wall Street boss to be axed since Peter Cohen went a year ago in the dismantling of another 1980s tower of babel , Shearson Lehman Hutton . |
| 8 | The police have indicated that they believe the Tamil Tigers were responsible for the bomb , but people are sceptical : Mr Premadasa was the closest thing the Tigers had to a political friend . |
| 9 | The first heart attack occurred in 1984 during a board meeting in Scotland where Mr Marshall was the managing director of the Aviemore Ski Centre . |
| 10 | Mr Patten was the only Cabinet casualty , although eight other middle-ranking and junior ministers also lost their seats . |
| 11 | The third area of the value of embalming stressed by Mr Dodge was the definite and positive benefits to the family . |
| 12 | A spokeswoman for RAF Marham said Mr Durrant was the only veteran from Essex to be invited and one of only handful from across Britain . |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock was the only person to refuse a glass . |
| 14 | Mr Mates was the efficient stage manager of Michael Heseltine 's almost successful bid for the premiership . |
| 15 | The preferred choice as successor to Mr Scherer was the current vice-president , Sir Roger Elliot of OUP . |
| 16 | but Mr Clinton was the right man in the right place at the right time . |
| 17 | Mr Allen was the undoubted original of Mr Allsworthy . |
| 18 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 19 | Four months ago at Maastricht , Mr Major was the new boy , the cadet among titans who had led their countries for 10 years or more : Kohl , Mitterrand and Andreotti , men who shared a vision of a tightly-integrated monetary and political union and who rode roughshod over Britain . |
| 20 | Mr Carter was the first speaker . |
| 21 | Mr Bézier was the first to realise how to write a description of a curved surface that did away with lists of cumbersome mathematical co-ordinates . |
| 22 | Mr Banister was the popular manager in the 30s . |