Example sentences of "[pers pn] be the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
| 2 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 3 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 4 | If yours is the first winning entry out of the hat then we 'll be in touch right away . |
| 5 | I was the first British person most of them had met and they see me as a bridge to the outside world , ’ she said . |
| 6 | ‘ An American , Harry Hebner , was the first man to use it in major competition when he won a gold medal in the 1912 Olympics , and I was the first British title holder . |
| 7 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew the Premier League teams who have not played in European competitions are Crystal Palace , Wimbledon , Oldham , Norwich , Sheffield United , Middlesbrough and Blackburn . |
| 8 | His was the first correct solution selected and he knew that Berlin ( 1916 ) , Tokyo then Helsinki ( 1940 ) and London ( 1944 ) were the VIth , XIIth and XIIIth Olympiads . |
| 9 | His was the first reported execution in several months for an offence related to the ‘ counter-revolutionary rebellion ’ . |
| 10 | If you 're the first correct entry out of the hat we 'll be straight on the phone to give you the good news and arrange the presentation . |
| 11 | Then all you have to do to win this exclusive guitar is to answer the following six questions and , if you 're the first correct entry out of the hat , this incredible instrument is yours . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're the first honest girl I 've met . |
| 13 | You 're the first non-Jewish girl I 've ever said more than ‘ Nice day ’ to . |
| 14 | You were the first blind person to be employed in the County Council ? |
| 15 | She was the first Siamese twin of her kind after an operation in March 1985 performed at Great Ormond Street Hospital by Prof Spitz . |
| 16 | in 1971 she was the first contemporary artist to have a major retrospective at the Hayward Gallery , curated by Bryan Robertson . |
| 17 | She was the first Labour candidate to be returned for that constituency and the first woman MP for a Liverpool seat . |
| 18 | In 1955 she was the first black person to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House , New York . |
| 19 | Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’ |
| 20 | But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none . |
| 21 | For what it 's worth , I *think* we 're the first automatic listserv list for a British football club . |
| 22 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 23 | We were the first British team ever to play in St Thomas and Tortoal ; in Anguilla we made history again because we played the first ever ‘ first-class ’ in England but it certainly will in Anguilla ! |
| 24 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 25 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 26 | They 're the first British team to enter the unusual drive from Paris to the Arctic circle . |
| 27 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
| 28 | As guests of the French government , they were the first British school group to learn at the 30,000 square metre , futuristic exhibition and learning centre — and did so entirely in French . |
| 29 | Mercer , who will have the jaw wired to-morrow , said : ‘ It 's the first serious injury I 've had and I 've never felt as flat as this . |
| 30 | According to his file , it 's the first adverse report he 's had . |