Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prize will be given to the first correct entry ( which should be sent to by ) and we 'll print the answers in the next issue . |
| 2 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 3 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 4 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 5 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 6 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 7 | That shows that both the president 's National Party ( NP ) and the ANC intend to be prepared for the first non-racial elections for a constituent assembly ; it is also a clear sign that both of them are sure that they can convince the other parties that the path they have laid down is the one to follow . |
| 8 | Brigit , 45 , will be seen in the first commercial this week playing a mum worried about her daughter going to university for the first time . |
| 9 | What Ho himself understood by Marxism at this stage can perhaps best be seen in the first Vietnamese Marxist revolutionary text : The Road to Revolution , published in 1926 . |
| 10 | They 're for the mass graves expected to be needed after the first German air raids . ’ |
| 11 | The prices will be announced before the first commercial shipment . |
| 12 | I would say that they were accurate when they were produced and there produced on the basis of accuracy at the time and they would be reviewed after the first financial period |
| 13 | The prize will be awarded to the first correct entry checked after the closing date . |
| 14 | Either English for Business ( First Level ) or English for Commerce ( First Level ) must be passed for the First Level Certificate in Commercial Studies award ( which will be offered for the first time in 1993 ) . |
| 15 | Either of these subjects must also be passed for the First Level Group Certificate in Shorthand and Typewriting award . |
| 16 | Summer savory is grown as a half-hardy annual , sowing outdoors in April-May , to thin to 20cm ( 8in ) apart , when the plants will grow into little bushes , but be killed by the first hard frost in autumn . |
| 17 | Of the ICBMs , 130 were due to be dismantled under the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty ( START 1 ) negotiated by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev . |