Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 2 | A complete first aid kit has been issued to each first aider which is kept ready to hand at their workplace . |
| 3 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 4 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 5 | This was grievous enough , but there was worse : the confidence and coherence of the Austrian Army had been broken in these first weeks of the war , and it was never again to comprise an efficient military weapon . |
| 6 | No decision had been taken in those first decades of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 8 | ‘ The only odd thing is that according to the military history , the place had been overrun by American First Army , either the 3rd or 9th Division , I ca n't quite make out their boundary line , nearly two weeks before . ’ |