Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the first [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is not the first Federal Reserve chairman to visit Moscow , but never can one have been paid as much attention . |
| 2 | The Deloitte fiasco is not the first big eight merger to fall apart and these ridiculous posturings must leave the clients , who are supposedly served by their auditors , completely baffled . |
| 3 | Hannah Glasse 's book , The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy was first published in 1747 in the 1751 edition appears what is possibly the first English printed recipe for an ice cream . |
| 4 | Yellow phosphine ( 7 ) was not only the first acridinium compound to be discovered , but was also the first basic orange dyestuff . |
| 5 | The first is the 1868 St Petersburg Declaration , which was indeed the first major international agreement prohibiting the use of a particular weapon in warfare — namely the explosive bullet . |
| 6 | That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty . |