Example sentences of "have been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 2 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 3 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 4 | Property developers have been the first to suffer , with credit lines cut off , interest costs rising and prices beginning to slip . |
| 5 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 6 | Christians involved in the relief of poverty have been the first to point this out . |
| 7 | True , local business is not entirely absent but on the whole , foreign operators have been the first to benefit . |
| 8 | As the most advanced part of the French colonial empire Vietnam in 1945 might , perhaps , by a sort of inductive leap , have been the first French colony to become independent . |
| 9 | Since 1979 , the economic crisis has devastated employment opportunities ; following the world-wide pattern , women have been the first to lose their jobs . |
| 10 | When fast scoring is discussed , there is one name which comes up more often than any other , and which should , in fairness , have been the first to have been entered on this teamsheet. it has been estimated that Gilbert Jessop — ‘ The Croucher ’ — made his runs at an average rate of 80 per hour , a phenomenal statistic . |
| 11 | I have been the first to pay tribute to improvements in productivity in the coal industry , but they must continue if the industry is to provide , as I believe that it can , the bulk of supplies to fossil-fuel generators in the years to come . |
| 12 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 13 | Too often in the past , when changes have been made , managers have been the last to know . |