Example sentences of "[adj] be [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this is not the first such episode . |
| 2 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 3 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 4 | Okay good now this is probably the first real go at doing pie charts that you 've had is n't it ? |
| 5 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 6 | This is why the first Christian believers were able to proclaim the good news about Jesus so fearlessly . |
| 7 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 8 | This was probably the first successful application of the crank to a steam engine in order to produce rotary motion . |
| 9 | There had been an English career Consul in Madeira since 1658 ( although this was not the first foreign consulate ) , and by 1680 there were ten English wine-shippers in the island . |
| 10 | This was not the first false alarm designed to draw the police into an ambush , although no one had been ambushed so far . |
| 11 | I thought : These are just the first hundred , for the rest of my life — strangers who 'll know , who 'll find out , who 'll try not to react but who will react . |
| 12 | Eadric Streona 's raid on St David 's in 1012 was not the first English incursion of Æthelred 's reign , and Cnut had been opposed by Welsh allies of Edmund Ironside in 1016 , and felt it necessary to settle several Scandinavian earls in the west midlands , one of whom , Eglaf , ravaged Dyfed in 1022 ; it is Welsh , not English , sources which record his flight from England after Cnut 's death . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , that was where the first magic encounter took place , was it ? |
| 14 | That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty . |