Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed !
2 I am not the first to suspect that the inhabitants of Massalia spent their money to ransom themselves from Catumarandus rather than the Romans from Brennus .
3 I am not the first one to have criticised this side of the Labour party 's proposals .
4 And what I hate even more is the thought that I 'm just the next number on your list .
5 It wo n't surprise you to hear that I 'm not the first to recognise the beauty of this region of South Wales — it was officially recognised in 1956 when it was designated as the very first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in Britain .
6 I 'm not the first visitor to this little planet of yours , you know . ’
7 But I 'm not the last .
8 ‘ I did n't kill him , but I 'm probably the last person to have seen him alive .
9 I never sit around , I 'm always the first person
10 I may venture to add Jerry and I were probably the first Scottish kids to hear this coming over the air .
11 she and I were always the last two
12 His prize was three hundred pounds and the silver cup and let's hope his is not the last name to get engraved on the Tour of Cotswolds Trophy
13 Andropov produced a list of names with crosses against them , and I understood I was practically the last Presidium member who had not been ‘ sworn in ’ .
14 yeah I mean to be honest it 's just a case of one of you , it does go that way , I knew I was right the first time , of one of you just remembering
15 I was normally the first RAF person to view the scene , and I find it quite unbearable to attempt to describe the desolation and carnage that confronted one on a hilltop in the isolation and splendour of the Scottish Highlands .
16 For I was not the first to have stood in Balboa 's footprints .
17 I even think I was not the first .
18 I first drew attention to the shortcomings of this edition in 1981 I was not the first to suspect it : as long ago as 1964 Sir Charles Mackerras , in preparing Castor et Pollux for a BBC broadcast , became suspicious of some of the scoring , went over to Paris to inspect the sources for himself , and made some extensive last-minute changes .
19 Early maternal deprivation had clearly left him with a hankering for mother figures in his life and I was n't the first .
20 ‘ I felt betrayed , ’ said Quinn , ‘ when I discovered I was n't the first man .
21 Merchanting er , is the buying and selling of materials not the production of materials , and erm , I was probably the first person from this area , in the leather trade , to go to China and we started to do quite a large business with China , so that immediately I was on my own , the first big operation I took was to go to China and make very substantial purchases of pigskin leather .
22 The early evening rush hour slowed my return to Stuart Street but I was still the first home to No. 9 , and even Lisabeth seemed to be out or at least locked in her cage .
23 I was only the second actor to get a non-exclusive contract .
24 My predecessor , who played the double-bass , had been appointed in 1935 , and I was only the third headmaster to hold office since the death of Queen Victoria .
25 The last lines quoted , which are also the last lines of the Canto , reveal this clearly for those who know The Cantos : the paradoxical coupling of the fluid ( the waves ) with the fixed ( the crystal ) is what Pound regularly sees as the essence of the authentic artifact .
26 If you stand on a hill in winter when there is a thaw or look down from a motorway , especially in the Midlands , you can hardly miss the pattern of long parallel bands of snow , which are always the last to go from the hollows of the old ridge and furrow .
27 In addition to taking ‘ core ’ studies , which are essentially the first two years of study and the final-year project , students may choose from optional units .
28 companies which were already the first or second company in their respective national market ;
29 Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes .
30 Almost all candidates in last month 's general elections , which were also the first in more than 22 years , called for lifting of martial law and defence laws and demanded the freedom of the press , freedom of association , and the legalisation of political parties banned by law since 1957 .
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