Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [prep] [art] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WWF members and supporters were amongst the first to receive full details of the new card . |
| 2 | Seabirds were badly affected , with cormorants and black-necked grebes being among the first to die . |
| 3 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 4 | The evidence indicates that the polar regions are among the first to detect changes arising from greenhouse warming . |
| 5 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 6 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 7 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 8 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 9 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |
| 10 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 11 | A number of authorities in Britain have attempted to devise means of sharing decision-making with neighbourhood groups , Islington and Walsall Councils being among the first to do so . |