Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] among the [num ord] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
2 | Until Ronnie 's death , as a result of his injuries at the start of the race — I was among the first at the scene and recall vividly the exsanguine look on Ronnie 's face and the mangle of his legs — they were separated by a mere 13 points : the final margin between them , because Mario scored no further points that season . |
3 | We were among the last to leave the Greenwood Theatre , but the lensmen , Dominic reported , were lying in wait . |
4 | They are among the first to acknowledge their relative inexperience in the shortened version of the game , pointing out that sevens has not captured the imagination of Southern Africa and that Hong Kong was Namibia 's first international sevens appearance . |
5 | They are among the last plants to bloom , often not being fully in flower until early September . |
6 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
7 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
8 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
9 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
10 | Two of the survivors assured me they were among the last girls to be admitted to the trade . |
11 | Three of them were among the first to be evacuated by the Red Cross from the notorious Banja Luka camp . |
12 | Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance . |
13 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
14 | It 's among the first of about thirty thousand which are being built in Britain . |
15 | It was among the first buildings in France to be listed as in need of help , even if none came for some fifteen years . |
16 | The importance that the Government place on this section is shown by the fact that it was among the first provisions of the 1989 Act to be brought into operation and the regulations made under it were among the first to be published . |
17 | He was among the first to champion Eliot . |
18 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
19 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
20 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
21 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
22 | He was among the first generation of British artists to respond favourably , through their own art , to the ideas of Picasso , Braque , Miro and their circle . |
23 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
24 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
25 | He was among the first to introduce the French style of plein-air landscape painting of the 1830s to London . |
26 | A graduate of Westminster Hotel School , ( where he was winner of the HCIMA 's premier student prize , the Sir Francis Towle Award ) he was among the first intake in Forte 's executive management trainee programme . |
27 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |
28 | He was among the last representatives of this kind of Anglo-French noble before the Hundred Years War , and the peace that subsisted between 1303 and 1324 enabled him to remain loyal to both his overlords . |