Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ He is in the first penitentiary cell , close to the passage to the infirmary , ’ said Cadfael . |
| 3 | When he spoke , it was from the first Tory bench below the gangway , the place he used as a backbencher before his ministerial days , in his youth as the Chingford Skinhead . |
| 4 | While still living with his family in London in 1871 he was amongst the first associate members of the newly formed Society of Telegraph Engineers ( later the Institution of Electrical Engineers ) . |
| 5 | It is well known that I disliked what was in the first three-year letter of intent , but I wholly approved of the principle . |