Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only once in the last ten years , in 1983 , have we been placed in the first three . |
| 2 | However , of the first 100 notified to the Commission ( but such notification is haphazard , and may not therefore be representative ) as having been formed in the first 14 months after the EEIG Regulation came into effect on 1 July 1989 , a rough pattern emerges . |
| 3 | These are addressed in the first five rooms , which treat late Bellini , Giorgione ( above all in the half-lengths ) , the Venetian Sebastiano , early Titian and the Giorgione-Titian-Campagnola controversy among the drawings . |
| 4 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 5 | This morning it was starts from the state boat ; many a race has been won in the first hundred yards or so , and Oxford , as always , are coached and prepared for everything . |
| 6 | However , if every seventh word has been deleted in the first few sentences , then every seventh word must be deleted for the rest of the test . |
| 7 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 8 | Its component elements are absorbed in the first few years of life largely unconsciously , and later more deliberately by informal and formal learning processes . |
| 9 | In this process electrons are pumped into the first excited atomic level by absorbing light from a laser tuned to the correct frequency . |
| 10 | But , by transforming , progress has also been made towards the first three goals : the batches are more symmetrical and bell-shaped , and some of the outliers in the original batch were not really unusual values , but merely a product of the upward straggle of the raw numbers . |
| 11 | At the time of writing , funding has been secured for the first five years ; it is to be hoped that the data will prove so useful that it will become indispensable to British social science . |
| 12 | And they 're looking for the first little thing ! |
| 13 | The data , the smoothed values and the residuals are shown in the first three columns of figure 9.7 . |
| 14 | At present , half the abortions in the UK are performed in the first 12 weeks ; delays in getting from GP to clinics or consultants mean some women are n't seen until after the nine-week stage has passed . |
| 15 | Roman micromosaics are displayed in the first two rooms . |
| 16 | According to EPS figures released on May 28 , a total of 12,627 recontras and 9,278 recompas had been demobilized during the first two phases and 22,197 infantry weapons and 215 support weapons had been currently destroyed . |
| 17 | To this end , you have the option of selecting a Midland Life Low Start Endowment Policy , under which your repayments are reduced over the first five years of the mortgage . |
| 18 | With a low-start , low-cost with-profits endowment , payments are reduced in the first few years , and the difference has to be made up in the remaining period . |
| 19 | These are linked to the first new component of the family , the OpenServer Directory Exchange Server , DXS , which provides a centralised repository of all user addresses on the network , and is responsible for propagating this information to the other electronic mail systems . |
| 20 | Surprisingly , less than 500 people have been arrested in the first 24 hours of the riots . |
| 21 | All the Jewish laws are derived from the first five books of the Old Testament , or what Jewish people refer to as the Torah , or the five books of Moses ; we believe that these laws were given by God to the Jewish people . |
| 22 | The prize will be given to the first correct entry ( which should be sent to by ) and we 'll print the answers in the next issue . |
| 23 | Glasgow has marketed itself as a city which rejoices in diversity , but will it be singing about the first homosexual festival ? |
| 24 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 25 | The patient should be treated within the first 6 hours of the onset of symptoms ; the longer you delay therapy the greater the risk of haemorrhage into the area of myocardial infarction following thrombolysis . |
| 26 | Specific proposals will no doubt be contained in the first joint spending and budget announcement in late autumn . |
| 27 | It is to be hoped that as a result of the guidance in the subsequent paragraphs most will be confined to the first two categories . |
| 28 | I am presently considering what measures should be included in the first Welsh Agri-Environment Plan and will consult widely about them in due course . |
| 29 | This same feeling should be carried into the first welcome meeting which should set the tone in the way that gospel singer George Beverly Shea did for Billy Graham . |
| 30 | They can take some getting used to and a bit of furtive fumbling is to be expected on the first few occasions . |