Example sentences of "[art] first to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the original sweat spot test the foot was chosen because , impairment being more likely to occur in longer nerve fibres , the lower extremities would be the first to be involved in diabetic autonomic neuropathy . |
| 2 | She judged the first to be that of some official and wondered what such a one would be doing there at an hour now close to midnight . |
| 3 | His team re-wrote the Turkish record books in the 1991/92 campaign by becoming the first to be undefeated in an entire League programme , joining Trabzonspor and Galatasaray as the only ones to win the championship three seasons running . |
| 4 | This issue of Action newsletter is the first to be typeset , designed and laid out on desktop publishing ( DTP ) equipment which has recently been installed at WACC 's offices in London . |
| 5 | He started , like many a cricket-crazy youngster with statistics — at the age of 14 writing to The Cricketer with a list of first-class hat-tricks , the first to be drawn-up , culled from research in Wisden . |
| 6 | As new products become available we ensure that you are the first to know about them … and the first to be able to enjoy them . |
| 7 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 8 | He was not the first to be interested in Rome ; certainly Theophrastus and perhaps Callias of Syracuse preceded him . |