Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] the first [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
| 2 | Although we know that it is easy enough to gain weight or eat unhealthily without indulging in desserts and sweet things , it is usually this ‘ extra ’ which is among the first to go when you are trying to keep to a low-calorie , low-fat regime . |
| 3 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 4 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 5 | They are among the first to acknowledge their relative inexperience in the shortened version of the game , pointing out that sevens has not captured the imagination of Southern Africa and that Hong Kong was Namibia 's first international sevens appearance . |
| 6 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 7 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 8 | He was among the first to exploit the fact that living nerve fibres pick up and transport protein molecules like the enzyme horseradish peroxidase , whose presence is easily demonstrated and so acts as a marker . |
| 9 | He was among the first to respond to the call to the colours in the 1st World War and the outcome was clear . |
| 10 | He was among the first to champion Eliot . |
| 11 | Hargreaves 's inventions were numerous and diverse ; besides his innovations in the soap , alkali , metallurgical , and electrochemical industries , his ‘ thermo-motor ’ anticipated the idea of the diesel engine , and he was among the first to advocate the use of gaseous chlorine for treating sewage . |
| 12 | He was among the first to welcome the radical reforms launched by Mrs Thatcher , especially in curbing the entrenched legal privileges of the trade unions . |
| 13 | Alexei had risen before the sun broke the horizon , and because he was engaged to wait upon Jehana at the house of her father — a public display to advertise the fact of their intended betrothal which was designed , he guessed , to make it believable — he was among the first to witness the damage which the teams of wrights and carpenters now laboured to repair . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , he greeted the Revolution with relief : in the Convention Parliament he was among the first to support William 's coup , although he saw it as crucial to take the opportunity to make England 's liberties more secure . |
| 15 | He was among the first to introduce the French style of plein-air landscape painting of the 1830s to London . |
| 16 | He was among the first to offer his warmest congratulations to the victorious Mr Clinton and since then the two leaders have spoken a number of times by telephone . |
| 17 | At Gold Hill ( later Dunstall Priory ) , Shoreham , Kent ( 1806 ) he produced a notably early example of a villa in the Italianate vernacular style of Nash 's Cronkhill , and at Balloch Castle , Dunbarton ( 1809 ) , he was amongst the first to introduce the picturesquely asymmetrical castle form into Scotland ; but he was a designer of only limited ability , frequently reducing the process of picturesque composition to a meagrely detailed routine formula of only marginal asymmetry . |