Example sentences of "[be] [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are using the first two forms ( No 1581 and No 1650 ) despite this , but the third form ( No 1655 ) is completely unusable and we are having to reorder . |
| 2 | The police and the courts should be the last resort for handling football indiscipline and we are reaching the stage where they are becoming the first . |
| 3 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 4 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 5 | They 're clearing the way for the new 600 series and we 're seeing the first evidence of the Japanese working practises . |
| 6 | The latest from Glasgow is the system is starting up again , we 're doing the first one on the twenty fourth of September erm , the Theatre Royal had , we 're doing three |
| 7 | By enabling IBM Cobol/VSAM CICS applications to run on Unix systems , says Crawford , users are offered the first easy step in moving off their proprietary mainframes ; he reckons Unikix facilitates 200–600% long-term cost-of-ownership savings for a typical customer . |
| 8 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 9 | Peasants who have returned to their lands in the heart of El Salvador 's war zone are celebrating the first anniversary of a daring experiment . |
| 10 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 11 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 12 | Timed to coincide with the major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Hayward Gallery , Alex Reid and Lefevre are holding the first commercial exhibition of the artist 's work to be held in Europe ( 8 April to 7 May ) . |
| 13 | TODAY we are printing the first of two special tokens you 'll need to cash in with our latest EXCLUSIVE offer . |
| 14 | ‘ I am to give the first reading . |
| 15 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 16 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
| 17 | Joh Commonwealth leaders have been attending the first day of their summit in Cyprus and protests by Greek Cypriots . |
| 18 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 19 | And just when we are recording the first positive signs of an upward trend in sales and net profit margins we are hit with the financial problems of a major hotel group like Queens Moat Houses . |
| 20 | When you are doing the first draft , label as many points on the axes as possible . |
| 21 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |
| 22 | Two officers are examining the first floor right now ; there is some ivy . ’ |
| 23 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 24 | He was already a canon of Notre-Dame-de-Paris , and was to be given the first vacant prebend at Bordeaux or Bourges by papal provision . |
| 25 | We might be given the first few pages to be going on with , and as we went along more pages would arrive . |
| 26 | Spurred by the competitive market , Intel is thought to be pitching the first P5 boxes at $6,000 : the company has reportedly priced the P5 at around $700 in 1,000 quantities versus the 80486DX which goes for $536 , according to Computer Reseller News . |
| 27 | This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God . |
| 28 | This is because we will commence knitting with the carriages at the right and be knitting the first row of background colour to the left . |
| 29 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 30 | On July 22nd , this summer he 'll be opening the first Sudeley summer festival in the grounds of Sudeley Castle . |