Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [num ord] member " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only suspect that the speed of my progress through the Division Lobby , as I was the second Member out that night , may have caused confusion . |
| 2 | He was the first member of his family to receive a conventional English upper-class education . |
| 3 | He was the first member of a chiefly family to be sent abroad to study , in Australia and New Zealand . |
| 4 | When Neville Chamberlain became Mayor of Birmingham in 1915 , he was the eighth member of the family to hold the office in half a century , and he was never to forget the influence of his local roots . |
| 5 | He was the fourth member of the Royal Irish Regiment to be murdered since the amalgamation of the Ulster Defence Regiment and the Royal Irish Rangers last summer . |