Example sentences of "be [adj] [verb] in the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deliveries of the new jet — which is designed to tap the market for business aircraft with an intercontinental range — are due to begin in the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 2 | To support a Labour government for the sake of an illiberal reform would be difficult to explain in the first place ; and it would become more difficult still when people saw how the reform worked in practice . |
| 3 | Consider why it should be that A and B are difficult to discriminate in the first place . |
| 4 | ‘ Is that one of the reasons why you were keen to invest in the first place , even one of the reasons why you decided to back the new housing development ? ’ |
| 5 | Midiscan for Windows is due to ship in the first week of July , with Macintosh and Atari versions following next year . |
| 6 | The behaviour referred to here is that required in the first stages of an encounter with any new material . |
| 7 | The mill is first mentioned in the first part of the 17th century and is thought to have been built around 1620 , although clearly much of the present building is of a later date . |
| 8 | Opener Atherton was due to play in the first Test at Calcutta before being forced out on the morning of the match because of illness . |
| 9 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |