Example sentences of "are the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planting one of their cherry trees at Rotherfield Park are the 3rd Alton Beavers , pictured with leader Guy Bagshaw |
| 2 | The Hackney shows are the fifth year in succession that the Bard of Barking has sung in the New Year . |
| 3 | Now that is a word you seldom come across in England , but away up in the Highlands and Islands being " fey " means that you have a certain sixth sense — you are the seventh son of a seventh son , or whatever the drama is on that score . |
| 4 | These are the 13th championships and they 're being staged in Oxford for the first time . |
| 5 | Along with Gloucestershire County Council , on which no party holds overall control , they are the first authorities hit by capping under the new Council Tax system . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ Aids for the disabled are the first glimmering of a further development of our culture , most of which has been concerned with the development of tools . |
| 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 | For example , here are the first lines of an article warning against OTC-traded Bio-Isolates : " Watch out , watch out … |
| 10 | Maude Stanley was only expressing a truism , as far as respectable society was concerned , when she advised that in starting a club ‘ discipline and order are the first requisites ’ . |
| 11 | Ley declared ‘ we are the first country in Europe to overcome the class struggle . ’ |
| 12 | The EETPU Essex agreements are the first instance of this practice being extended into the field of the " new " temporary working . |
| 13 | The first owner of the right is the designer unless the design is created in pursuance of a commission or in the course of employment in which cases the commissioner or the employer respectively are the first owners of the right , subject to any written agreement to the contrary . |
| 14 | These are the first answers given , but in reply to further questions the number of women making at least one negative reference increases to twenty-seven — sixty-eight per cent of the sample . |
| 15 | BAY OF PLENTY are the first New Zealand team to send a team to the Melrose Sevens next month . |
| 16 | Last night as the Yugoslavs camped out at St Peter 's School in Northampton , Mr Smith , 52 , said : ‘ I believe these are the first refugees to come across as a group . |
| 17 | These are the first fruits of a beginning letter to all the London embassies . |
| 18 | These are the first Cambodians to graduate from a rehabilitation programme at Wat Thom , a disused temple in Phnom Penh . |
| 19 | Erm but in the meantime those are the first essays I can er erm are you erm , working on that or thinking about that ? |
| 20 | Well , not just women , men as well , but mothers are the first teachers of the young . |
| 21 | These fortunate people are the first generation approaching retirement who have not suffered a significant interruption in their career because of the war . |
| 22 | Our teenagers are the first generation of young people to begin their sex lives under the shadow of AIDS . |
| 23 | You are the first person I have told , Elinor . |
| 24 | You are the first person I 've told , apart from the self-help organisation , but you wo n't be the last . |
| 25 | And you are the first person now I ever told it to . |
| 26 | Elena Pinguli and Mentor Belalla , both 17 , are the first Albanians to be allowed to study abroad for 50 years and are throwing themselves into college life with typical Albanian verve . |
| 27 | The SRY homologues , together with the mouse Ube1y homologues , are the first genes to be identified on the marsupial Y chromosome . |
| 28 | These are the first principles of Orc generalship … the things that everybody learns pretty quickly . |
| 29 | Jim Smith 's Second Division outfit are the first non-Division One winners of the Professional Footballers ' Association Fair Play Award . |
| 30 | Ah these are the first ones I 've . |