Example sentences of "[pron] be that the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quicker thinking readers will probably have noticed what I did n't , which is that the first appearance of ‘ adverb ’ is a mistaken correction by a typesetter or proofreader of the correctly wrong ‘ abverb ’ . |
| 2 | Could it be that the first creatures to leave any sign of their existence were as complex as worms and molluscs ? |
| 3 | How cruelly ironic it was that the first man to capture her heart and awaken her senses , the man she had waited and longed for , should be metaphorically a ship passing in the night . |
| 4 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 5 | And what they have told us is that the first body was too far decomposed to be very helpful . |