Example sentences of "being first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut was ahead of us , so that nothing would stop him being first away . |
| 2 | Those circumstances are strictly defined as being first , where confidential information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended , and secondly where exempt information would be disclosed to the Press and public if they attended . |
| 3 | The carriage doors were all made so as to be interchangeable , the doors being first of all pressed together in a compressed-air jig , and then panelled up . |
| 4 | These castings-on involved the whole lost-wax process , the missing parts being first modelled in position in wax , the whole enveloped in clay and metal run in to replace the wax . |
| 5 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , for the first three months of his premiership lie performed a feat which had seemed remarkable even when Gladstone had last done it forty years before and retained the Chancellorship as well as being First Lord of the Treasury . |
| 7 | ‘ My dear — do n't allow his obsession for everything being first class at the Wilderness get under your skin . |
| 8 | The newspaper spoke of hidden station security cameras , faxed photographs , network identification computers , instant Press access to newsworthy material and the Edinburgh Mercury always being first with the news . |