Example sentences of "be the first [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fistula formation — for example to the trachea — may then be the first sign of the true nature of the disease . |
| 2 | The case is thought to be the first test of the obligation under the Acquisition of Land Act 1981 to provide new land of " equal advantage " where public open space is lost through a compulsory purchase . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're still investing more than HP is in development , so our bottom line profits are less , but this will be the first year for the RS/6000 that we make at least $1 net profit . ’ |
| 4 | From clinical and economic viewpoints a careful abdominal examination should be the first assessment of a vomiting child . |
| 5 | The octopus will be the first animal without a backbone to be protected under regulations that already cover experiments on vertebrates . |
| 6 | I shall be the first writer at an Inaugural since Frost at John Kennedy 's . |
| 7 | This will be the first Masters for the new chairman , Jack Stephens , Arkanas billionaire . |
| 8 | Carriers are expected to be the first users of the interface since it will significantly reduce the cost of building a new Frame Relay network or of extending an existing Frame Relay network . |
| 9 | According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years . |
| 10 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 11 | There 's no question Quinn — and Cottee , Aldridge and the rest — are masters of the art and if I had one in my club , he 'd be the first name on the sheet . |
| 12 | She subscribed to the journals Poétique and Tel Quel so that she could be the first person on the Trumpington Road to know the latest thoughts of Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva . |
| 13 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 14 | It expects to be the first constituency in the country to declare a result , it may be the first Liberal Democrat gain , or it may elect Britain 's first black Tory MP . |
| 15 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 16 | We would have first bite at the cake : ours would be the first footprints in the snow . |
| 17 | The only way to solve the problem is to iron out the effect of fluctuations , and this therefore must be the first objective of a computerised system . |
| 18 | It was intended to be the first part of a lengthy tramway to Sutton and beyond . |
| 19 | The initial half-mile section will be the first part of the Railway 's plans to lay south , operations initially taking the form of ‘ topping and tailing ’ , the normal four-coach service train with a second locomotive , subject to final Department of Transport agreement . |
| 20 | Mistakes made by confusing and mixing units are very prevalent , so this conversion should be the first part of the answer to the question ; it should not be done on scraps of paper . |
| 21 | Being undemanding as to most conditions this should be the first choice of every aquarist . |
| 22 | Such advertisements cost money , and it will not be the first thought of a local authority , which has many staff and functions outside the SSD , to pay for similar campaigns . |
| 23 | If it happened to be the first Sunday in the month my mother , my Aunt Gertrude and my two sisters ( after their respective confirmations ) went to early service — 7 o'clock Holy Communion at the Parish Church of St. Martin 's . |
| 24 | A race to be the first man at the South Pole , in Antarctica . |
| 25 | On the rostrum Joey said : ‘ You really need to be the first man at the Metropole if you want to be first at the finishing line . ’ |
| 26 | However , they are also the largest towns in Deeside , and so , by a process of macrodiffusion , would be the first towns in the area to experience outbreaks of heroin use . |
| 27 | Stress problems in the family may be the first indicator of a sufferer 's disease . |
| 28 | It will be the first event at the castle since it reopened to the public last month , after a four year interval . |
| 29 | Next year 's French Grand Prix , scheduled to take place on July 4 exactly one week before the British race at Silverstone , could be the first casualty of the anti-smoking brigade 's war on tobacco sponsorship . |
| 30 | If this is the case , the changes of the past 30 years may be the first signs of a return to the more traditional population distribution of pre-industrial Britain , but it must also be borne in mind that it takes a very long time to shift major population patterns , and that the present trends may only be a veneer on an underlying and more permanent structure . |