Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his early days at Highbury he was painfully aware of being labelled the first £10,000 footballer . |
| 2 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 3 | Yeah , were going to be using the first plane on Hong Kong on February the first |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | San Diego , California-based Metrosoft claims to be developing the first commercial multitrack MIDI audio software for NeXT workstations : MetroTracks can accommodate up to 32 virtual tracks , eight of which can be mixed simultaneously depending on hardware configuration , is compatible with most third party audio products supported by NeXT , cost starts from $600 and ships in September . |
| 6 | And tonight , three hours south in San Jos de Penuelas , the seasonal labourers who are talking by candlelight around a table seem to be taking the first steps towards the same kind of self-determination . |
| 7 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Poet Software Corp , Santa Clara claims to be showing the first object-oriented database system running under Microsoft Corp 's NT in the shape of Version 2.0 of the company 's Poet object database . |
| 10 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 11 | You 'd do we by the time you get in nine o'clock you 're supposed to be re half past nine you 're supposed to be finished the first one . |
| 12 | Dr. Johnson then completed a hat-trick of honours by being elected the first holder of Oxford 's David Phillips chair in Molecular Biophysics . |