Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [am/are] [prep] the first " 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 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 3 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 5 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |