Example sentences of "be [adj] [prep] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion a New Bradwell man , having been unsuccessful in boarding the first two ‘ buses to Bradwell at lunch time , expostulated ‘ I 'll get a seat on the next one even if I have to stand up ’ needless to say he never lived that statement down . |
| 2 | Although Braque had been responsible for taking the first steps towards a more abstract type of painting , his own use of the new procedure was much more cautious than Picasso 's . |
| 3 | Just over 60 years ago nuns from the same convent left Britain to be instrumental in providing the first Carmelite presence in South Africa . |
| 4 | International fame was achieved after he joined the Marlborough Gallery in 1958 who were instrumental in organising the first retrospective at the Tate in 1962 , to be followed by major shows at the Grand Palais , Paris , in 1971 and the Tate in 1985 . |
| 5 | Chapter 29 of that work is remarkable for containing the first scientific investigation of the tides , involving the earliest ‘ establishment of a port ’ , that is , the mean interval between the time of high water and that of the previous transit of the meridian by the moon . |
| 6 | I was involved in writing the first two drafts of the film , but by the sixth draft there were n't that many of my ideas left . |