Example sentences of "[adv] be the first [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 2 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 3 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 4 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 5 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 6 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 7 | ‘ It wo n't be the first time that people who think they 're in the fast track come across a roadblock and are overtaken by people in what was falsely described as the slow track . ’ |
| 8 | There were questions he still needed to ask and it would n't be the first time that he had taken advantage of tiredness or grief . |
| 9 | It would n't be the first time that a man had lovingly supported a woman through crisis only to discover that when she was strong again his own need was to confine her in a dependent role . |
| 10 | It would n't be the first time that a man has been seduced by female beauty and been left the poorer for his pleasure , nor the first time Lotta has attempted by stealth to deprive me of something which I value . ’ |
| 11 | Today is the first day that tickets are on sale to non-members so its best to ring up and see whats left . |
| 12 | Here 's the first file that I 've got , this is the sales file , and , to bring the second file into memory in this , this One Two Three Release Three , you do file open . |