Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | A clutch of companies involved in technology from the Soviet space programmes has been given permission for the first time to deal direct with foreigners . |
| 2 | Statistics on the death penalty in the USSR have been made public for the first time since 1934 . |
| 3 | STATE school exam results tables will be made public for the first time this week in the biggest Government publishing exercise since ration books . |
| 4 | RUGBY LEAGUE : The Stones Bitter Premiership final at Old Trafford on Sunday , May 17 , is to be made all-ticket for the first time . |
| 5 | Jitters and Curtius Kenne had been knocked flat by the first blast . |
| 6 | The HRT team — owned by Tom Walkinshaw and managed by Percy — became national heroes as the first to win Bathurst in an Australian car since 1987 , when Peter Brock was awarded victory after the first and second-placed Texaco Sierras were excluded . |