Example sentences of "be the [num ord] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greece had been the first EEC ‘ associate ’ member in 1962 and had already reduced tariffs and harmonised agricultural policies with the Community . |
| 2 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 3 | The messenger had been sent by a group of Annan citizens loyal to the Bruce connection ; after all , the late King Robert had been the sixth Bruce Lord of Annandale . |
| 4 | ‘ One of those guys could have been the next Courtney Pine . ’ |
| 5 | From 1904 it had been the last Romanov 's main home . |
| 6 | Planting one of their cherry trees at Rotherfield Park are the 3rd Alton Beavers , pictured with leader Guy Bagshaw |
| 7 | ‘ We are the first England representative team to face the Springboks in 23 years and we must make it a memorable day , one the selectors can not ignore . ’ |
| 8 | Frimley ‘ E ’ are the first Aldershot League knockout cup winners of the season after their anticipated victory in the Sub Division section over a valiant Solartron ‘ B ’ . |
| 9 | BAY OF PLENTY are the first New Zealand team to send a team to the Melrose Sevens next month . |
| 10 | They are the first Suffolk representatives to take part in the national finals . |
| 11 | CEWTEC 's Chief Executive Alan Moody said : ‘ We are the first TEC in the country to utilise the skills of jobless executives specifically for Investors in People . ’ |
| 12 | It 's cheaper than eating here , and when you 're the next Nirvana , rather than the current one , every penny counts . |
| 13 | Find out if you 're the next Bateman . |
| 14 | Though the Central Wales line was built in several sections at various times , its beginning as a through route is usually considered to be the 8th October 1868 , the commencement of public trains . |
| 15 | The patronal festival of the parish church of St Peter of Tankersley should be the 29th June , but Tankersley Feast always took place during the second week of July . |
| 16 | ‘ It is n't very gallant of me to say so , ’ he added , softly kissing her fingertips , ‘ but the fact is , Marissa had decided that she wanted to be the second Mrs Wyndham — while I , my darling , was only interested in the first . ’ |
| 17 | With the chip stripped of floating point processor , large caches and TurboChannel/EISA controller support , he says Terminal III could be the first AXP platform under $2,000 . |
| 18 | Coetzer would not be the first South African Bruno has faced . |
| 19 | ‘ George Bush to be the first US President to visit a free Cuba ’ headlines the far-right Miami Diario de las Americas , carrying , on its inside page , details of how to phone Cuba and send over food parcels , as well as where to register your confiscated property for repossession after the regime has gone . |
| 20 | Lotus Development Corp and the Skytel unit of Mobile Telecommunications Technologies Inc plan joint development of technologies and applications to meet the demands of a growing wireless messaging market : first product from the agreement is a wireless messaging gateway for Lotus Notes , which is claimed to be the first US national wireless gateway for workgroup software — combining Notes and a SkyWord alphanumeric receiver , the gateway will create a Notes ‘ thinking mailbox ’ that can forward changes in information from a Notes server to SkyWord receivers , the firms say . |
| 21 | Between 400 and 500 Iraqi troops were reported captured during the fighting , while 31 US personnel were described as missing or captured , including a female Marine who was thought to be the first US woman soldier to be captured by an enemy force . |
| 22 | The probe would be the first US craft to visit Mars since 1976 . |
| 23 | The 21-year-old university student is believed to be the first Lurgan sportsman to win senior medals for both football and cricket . |
| 24 | With reports still circulating that Sun Microsystems Inc will enter the business this year , Tatung Science & Technology Inc looks to be the first Sparc systems builder to go for the X terminal market . |
| 25 | If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's . |
| 26 | I 'M ASHAMED to be the first Scotland captain sent off in an international match . |
| 27 | If successful , he will be the first Puerto Rican to win office at city level . |
| 28 | Confidence is high among the experienced Darc Star team hoping to be the first UK successful attempt on the mountain in winter . |
| 29 | H TELEWEST TO BE THE FIRST UK CABLE TELEVISION OPERATOR TO INSTALL ITS OWN TELEPHONE EXCHANGES I2128 J02128 E16 Mar 1993 D930316 M9303 Y93 CAGREE T |
| 30 | The charming , vivacious Nancy was to be the first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro and Mozart evidently felt a very special affection for her . |