Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 2 | The control which the withholding of love gives to a parent emphasises how tremendously important it is that a child should be genuinely loved in the first place . |
| 3 | After a certain point the wants which it is intended to satisfy have to be artificially created in the first place by advertising and salesmanship . |
| 4 | Such data are not yet available for Europe , but will be imminently presented for the first time . |
| 5 | Needless to say , Roebuck underwent another ankle operation in December and hopes to be back playing by the first Sydney competition match for Eastwood against defending champions Randwick in April . |
| 6 | Edwards , switched to scrum-half for the injured Andy Gregory , was the catalyst of a well-disciplined performance by Wigan who now need one point from three matches to be mathematically assured of the first leg of their league and cup double objective . |
| 7 | It is necessary , therefore , to be well prepared for the first meeting , although unduly high start-up costs should be avoided at this stage . |
| 8 | While it may be virtually abolished on the first night by as few as four or five wakenings , on subsequent nights REM " pressure " increases , and successively more wakenings are required , as the number of times REM sleep is initiated is increased . |
| 9 | Compiled annually , it is a voluminous source which can now be fully exploited for the first time using computer techniques . |