Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 3 | Iberia reckons it is the first European carrier to offer flights from America to third countries . |
| 4 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 5 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 6 | Police in Northumbria believe it is the first such attack on a house . |
| 7 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 8 | They felt they were the first two up in the whole world , like Adam and Eve . |
| 9 | Just Do It is the first long climb to reach the ranks of the modern desperate . |
| 10 | And Dinda said she needed a filling , a re-filling actually and she said it 's the first that she 's been to a dentist that she could remember that she did n't notice the needle coming in , part she hates is the needle in the gum . |