Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The card is still at the first row . |
| 2 | When the stem has two syllables the stress is sometimes on the first , sometimes on the second syllable of the stem . |
| 3 | In the Tchaikovsky , the second phrase is not unlike the first . |
| 4 | The third layer is directly above the first , the fourth directly above the second , and so on . |
| 5 | and like the thing is obviously like the first realise there on a and they try to stop it , why are you stopping for , remember you are in the British army , if you disobey orders you 'll get a court marshall really started laying onto them , and like they 've started again and like the first bloke obviously got to the fucking water , cos he 's stopped again , one man one sides shouting out and round the other side shouting out and they have they 've all gone in , they must of thought fuck it and they 've all just fucking marched into the sea , and we marched them in , tent was only about that much above water , and we 've lasted thought , this is the thing that got me , he , he shouted at him , cos we , we , we managed to get them and that , he said right , right , go in , go in and tell them to come out , what , I said what , can you just pop in and tell them to come out , I said over here sarge , he said you disobey an order |
| 6 | Most contemporary feminist politics is somewhere between the first and second stages , that is , it oscillates between deploring and celebrating difference , between the negative and positive motivations I outlined above , without realistically expecting — yet — to transcend current gender divisions . |
| 7 | But on the basis of evidence available now , it seems reasonable to conclude that class is not of the first importance in structuring our experiences of family life . |