Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 2 | ‘ You are to set off at first light tomorrow . |
| 3 | A budget should be built up from first principles , to identify the component tasks , the resources which are needed to carry out these tasks and to enable the required resources to be costed . |
| 4 | All first teamers are on standby … 18 in the squad … there 'll be no John Durnin he 's suspended … but Les Phillips is almost certain to be called back into first team action … |
| 5 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 6 | The action had been struck out at first instance , an appeal to the Court of Appeal had failed but a petition for leave to appeal to the House of Lords was still pending . |
| 7 | As they were phased out of first line units Londons went mostly to 4 Coastal Operational Training Unit , but a few passed to the Flying-Boat Training Squadron ( FBTS ) at Stranraer . |
| 8 | Their approach is to go back to first principles , looking at the constraints that link objects and events in the real world to what happens in the retinal image and then looking for rules that can be used unambiguously to recode retinal events in terms of the outside world ( Poggio , Torre , and Koch 1985 ; Ullman 1986 ) . |
| 9 | Tait , son of an ex-Wor-kington Town star , was thrust immediately into first team action , scoring a try in the Premiership Final victory over St. Helens when he came on as substitute in only his third game . |
| 10 | Their top class operation was recognised recently with first place in northern region 's quarterly audit checks . |
| 11 | BRITISH LIONS stand-off Stuart Barnes was ruled out of first Test contention in New Zealand this morning by the intervention of his half-back partner Robert Jones . |
| 12 | Then the Champion got banned for his ride on Midnight Air who was thrown out of first place after the Fillies Mile . |
| 13 | Now Hereford 's cup run was finished off by first division Nottingham Forest … they lost two nil but have boosted the bank balance with over twenty four thousand packing into the City Ground yesterday |