Example sentences of "[vb past] to be the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campus Construction , believed to be the first journal of its type for students of construction , is being published by the Institute 's Commercial Directorate and will initially appear three times a year . |
| 2 | Combining the new technique with the scientific system of the Roman law , Gratian and his school were able to provide the Church with what came to be the first part of its corpus of official law . |
| 3 | We made love , it just happened to be the first time for me . |
| 4 | And now , to cap it all , poor Byford had to be the first army victim of the latest IRA tactic — Flying Columns-compact bands armed only with a few rifles and automatic pistols , moving soundlessly at night along country lanes on foot or on bicycles , and waiting behind roadside hedges — waiting for hours , days if necessary — for a patrol to come along . |
| 5 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 6 | Mr Chihana made it clear , however , that he intended to be the first opposition leader to confront the government openly from inside Malawi . |