Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [adv] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tandem may not be the first commercial box-shifter out with a Chorus-based system , though it may yet find itself in a race to be first to deliver in volume . |
| 2 | The positioning of the boiler may well be the first consideration . |
| 3 | Silvikrin may not be the first to introduce a two-in-one shampoo and conditioner , but they have certainly made it worth the wait . |
| 4 | The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title . |
| 5 | But Lightbody must surely be the first not to get a senior trial in his year as Irish singles champion . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's only one conclusion we can reach , Master Coroner — Sir Ralph might not be the first person to die in the Tower before Yuletide comes . ’ |
| 7 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 8 | Of course the converse can be said , as several knobbly and bow-legged clerics would humbly be the first to acknowledge . |
| 9 | Our lord would not be the first to come to bargain and stay to bleed . ’ |
| 10 | Coetzer would not be the first South African Bruno has faced . |
| 11 | A Family Division lawyer remarked last night : ‘ The Duke of York would not be the first husband to be enraged by a photograph of a man lying on top of his wife . |
| 12 | A good public relations executive can often be the first person to tell a client of a new fact about his competitor . |
| 13 | The system will likely be the first in a series of RS/6000 multi-processors that could eventually incorporate up to 16 CPUs . |
| 14 | ‘ If I was coming home tired , ’ said Whatham , ‘ a play by a dissident Czech playwright would not be the first programme I would turn on . |