Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | AUSTRALIAN David Richards is expected to be named the first full-time chief executive of the International Cricket Council in February . |
| 5 | It has a claim to be considered the first court school of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dr. Johnson then completed a hat-trick of honours by being elected the first holder of Oxford 's David Phillips chair in Molecular Biophysics . |