Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [vb pp] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , the mill and house were destroyed by fire in 1933 , but from these ashes and the insurance money a modern mill was built incorporating the first Californian press imported into the country . |
| 2 | A control group were asked to name the first vegetable they thought of and another group were asked to recite ‘ fifteen times ’ fifteen times and then to name a vegetable . |
| 3 | With the dam wall now standing at 57 metres , this year 's monsoon is expected to flood the first few villages . |
| 4 | If no notification is made prepare the first absence letter to be issued . |
| 5 | There is , however , the difference that in those cases the control is used to investigate the first instability whereas here it is needed only for the later stages . |
| 6 | BULLIED Pacific No. 34027 TAW Valley is set to become the first steam locomotive to depart from London 's Waterloo with a passenger train in 25 years . |
| 7 | One Brownie is chosen to ask the first question . |
| 8 | The veteran Shankill councillor was set to become the first outgoing Lord Mayor in Belfast 's history not to be re-elected . |
| 9 | Following the trend spearheaded by Unify Corp with its Accell 4GL toolset a few years ago , Ingres Corp is expected to make the first moves in liberating its own toolsets from the Ingres database next month . |
| 10 | This technique of free association , in which the patient is encouraged to say the first thing that comes to mind , reveals connotations of the dream image which might otherwise not have been obvious . |
| 11 | In one home a somewhat unhappy new resident was allowed to spend the first week after admission dressed in her coat and sleeping in a chair . |
| 12 | This feature was designed to cover the first flights of three Spitfires , during the time of its production that statistic changed to four ! |
| 13 | However , Walker found that if the BFP algorithm was altered to reflect the first three levels of SPAR 's ordering given above , correct results were obtained by eight of the 21 pronouns resolved correctly by Hobbs but incorrectly by the original BFP . |
| 14 | Dessie was used to promote the first Sunday meeting at Doncaster last month along with Red Rum . |