Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | than there was in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Smith , whose team are 6–1 outsiders for the Cup , agrees with the bookmakers in rating Liverpool even stronger favourites tonight than they were for the first meeting . |
| 4 | If you are on the first field of an option and you press BACKSPACE , an error message is reported at the foot of the page . |
| 5 | Monica Hicks of the Association of University Teachers argues that the proposal of split firsts is a distraction : ‘ If you 're in the first category , further refining is an unnecessary detail . ’ |
| 6 | Mm cos you were in the first one were n't you ? |
| 7 | We might get a thousand or so more from Hartlepool but if we were in the First Division we 'd struggle to get 7,000 . |
| 8 | Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time . |
| 9 | One was from erm from Baghdad to Barqu and the other one was from Barqu to Basrah because he was in the First World War , I think he was serving with the Middlesex Regiment and erm , I do n't know how he managed this , I never did understand . |
| 10 | tell you what it seems ages since I was in the first year , but not very long since I was in the second year |
| 11 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 12 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 13 | Like when she 's in the first two classes it wo n't matter so but as she 'll approach the G C S C |
| 14 | Absolutely , I would think they 're the three heroes erm Les Phillips in midfield was back to the Les Phillips we knew when he first came to Oxford from Birmingham when we were in the first division . |
| 15 | We have always in Czechoslovakia been proud of being Europeans , as we were before the First World War and between the wars . |
| 16 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 17 | At that time she had known few people in the district , for they were among the first of the incomers , and Camille had been only a baby with the consequent ailments , accidents and dissatisfactions . |
| 18 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 19 | Nigel 's arrangement of the white slaves , as he called the domestic machines , positioned as they were on the first floor , entailed many journeys upstairs to inspect their progress . |
| 20 | Mind you , erm , I have n't been conscious about him at all , even when he was on the first of all . |
| 21 | What is common to all of them and to others , as it is to the first two sorts of " if " statements , is that none states the kind of connection of one thing with another which is expressed by any dependent conditional . |
| 22 | He might have an interesting tale to tell but it could probably be told in the space of thirty minutes and on later meetings hauled out and paraded again exactly as it was on the first occasion . |
| 23 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 24 | Clyne House , the Royal Schools for the Deaf ( Manchester ) 's nursery department , was once again turned into a military hospital just as it was in the First World War . |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , there are many unstressed syllables between the stressed ones , then the unstressed ones are squeezed together , so that the time between the stresses is approximately the same as it was in the first example ( see the sentence " The weather we had last summer was awful " ) . |
| 26 | When the king had died peacefully in bed in 1968 he had been left exactly as he was for the first six months to make sure he was n't simply astral-travelling . |
| 27 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |