Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [prep] be [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long struggle of the provinces against the most powerful ruler in Europe has perhaps the best claim to be the first war of national liberation . |
| 2 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 3 | ‘ We always try to be the first to drop our rates when they are falling , but the last to increase them when they are on their way up , ’ assures Vos . |
| 4 | On the rostrum Joey said : ‘ You really need to be the first man at the Metropole if you want to be first at the finishing line . ’ |
| 5 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |