Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 2 | We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view |
| 3 | In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree . |
| 4 | Music death : Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander , whose classics were among the first songs cut by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones , has died in Nashville , aged 53 . |
| 5 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 6 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |