Example sentences of "[noun] being [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the season , three clubs would be relegated from the Premier Division , with only the championship winners being promoted from the First Division . |
| 2 | In February 1990 , by which time he had moved to become manager of West Ham , Macari became embroiled in financial scandals dating back to his years at Swindon and eventually ended in the newly promoted club being relegated from the First Division to the Third , a draconian punishment which was partially decreased on appeal . |
| 3 | A special austerity programme had reduced the range of consumer goods and foodstuffs , with eggs and bread being rationed for the first time . |
| 4 | Most catalogues begin , usually with some proud and flamboyant phraseology , by describing the new varieties being introduced for the first time , and invariably , because they are the kinds that get most of the breeders ' attentions , these will be H.T.s and Floribundas . |
| 5 | Wembley is a virtual sell-out with the Mohawks game being followed by the first division championship final . |
| 6 | The previous November , the government had assented to the idea of an annual White Paper on expenditure and a debate , the paper being published and the debate being held for the first time in the winter of 1969–70 . |
| 7 | Young ladies being presented for the first time were known as debutantes . |
| 8 | Chemotherapy consisted of four week cycles of intravenous leucovorin ( 200 mg/m/day ) followed by 5-fluorouracil ( 550 mg/m/day ) and cisplatin ( 20 mg/m/day ) , each drug being given on the first four days of the cycle . |
| 9 | The Education Act of 1944 , for example , led to the majority of rural school children being educated for the first time outside their own village after the age of eleven . |
| 10 | As far as the kadiliks are concerned , the original mevleviyet kadiliks appear to have been the kadiliks of the three Ottoman capitals , Istanbul , Edirne and Bursa , this number being increased in the first Instance through the acquisition of other important cities by conquest or other means . |
| 11 | However , in April 1990 a government statement revealed that an intensified campaign against the guerrillas had led to 10 rocket attacks being foiled and five members of the Islamic Jihad organization being arrested in the first three months of the year . |