Example sentences of "[adv] be the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd not be the first young widow to do such a thing , ’ |
| 2 | Tandem may not be the first commercial box-shifter out with a Chorus-based system , though it may yet find itself in a race to be first to deliver in volume . |
| 3 | Simon away was the first young man all over again , a hundred times worse . |
| 4 | Poland has always been the first non-Soviet WTO state to receive front line equipment from the USSR . |
| 5 | In much of his fiction , early and late , Waugh turns from comedy to the haunting thought of a lost Eden ; and in a nation that had once been the first industrial civilisation that can only mean a pastoral world . |
| 6 | Today , McRae was chasing lost time and ended up driving into a ditch , but will still be the first British driver home . |
| 7 | As part of No. 34027 's movement south from the Severn Valley Railway to attend the Bournemouth Open Days on September 12 & 13 , she will work this special charter which will also be the first steam-hauled passenger train south of Eastleigh since the end of steam on the SR . |
| 8 | Appointments have been made to the Directorship of the School and to the newly established Peter Moores Professorship of Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first Academic Director of the School ) , and arrangements are being made to fill a Readership in Management Studies ( the holder of which will also be the first MBA Director ) . |
| 9 | He would n't be the first homosexual man to go to bed with a woman in the hope of proving he was n't gay . |
| 10 | Here is the first uncomfortable contradiction of separatism . |
| 11 | Here is the first theological word : vicarious . |
| 12 | But here is the first full account of Stockhausen 's childhood in the war — his mother , a depressive , was a victim of the Nazis ' ’ euthanasia policy ’ — and of his gravitation towards Darmstadt as the centre of world music in the immediate post-war years . |
| 13 | Where was the first public aquarium ? |