Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the first [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arts will have a higher profile in the fourth Conservative term , with David Mellor heading a much enlarged department ( which for the first time is allocated a place in the Cabinet ) , flanked by one junior Minister , Robert Key . |
| 2 | During a five-hour address on the opening day , which for the first time was not broadcast live , Castro painted a bleak picture of an economy critically dependent on trade with the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | The USSR had acquired substantial assets in the Third World , which for the first time were threatened by a combination of internal rebellion and external pressure . |
| 4 | The fact that you were weak enough to choose them in the first place is another thing altogether , ’ she finished triumphantly . |
| 5 | A key concern that runs through all these debates and to some extent actually inspired them in the first place is whether one can draw clear boundaries between the social classes . |
| 6 | But seeing him for the first time was like when you buy a new make of car you never noticed that kind before , then you realise they 're all over the place . |
| 7 | ‘ Meeting her for the first time was nerve-racking to say the least , ’ says one insider at BSkyB . |
| 8 | Everybody in the first term is in in the morning . |
| 9 | Sitting beside her in the first half were the managing director of Digital Equipment Mr Geoffrey Shingles , and the Chairman of the Sadler 's Wells Trust Professor Gerald Manners ; and in the second Mr Richard Martin director of Corporate Affairs at Digital , and Mr Jeremy Isaacs the Director of the Royal Opera House . |