Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are women miners here who were among the first to be laid off when Pittston sacked 4,000 of its 6,000 unionised miners in the early Eighties . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly they were among the first fossils to attract widespread attention . |
| 3 | There they were on the first , belated , league Saturday of the season , celebrating their arrival in the first division , unveiling new-look Sunbury as a showpiece of healthy ambition and running Bath so close that the perennial might of the champions was instantly called into question . |
| 4 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 5 | remember how it was in the first place so if you cut four in half , remember four |
| 6 | That 's how he was in the first place though . |
| 7 | It is a typical British beef type and perhaps for that reason its numbers at home are now dangerously low : fewer than 450 breeding cows were registered in 1987 when it was for the first time classified as a rare breed , though in the nineteenth century it had been the mainstay of the Scottish beef industry . |
| 8 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |