Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a married man over 75 and on a modest income , you are allowed the first £6,875 free of tax . |
| 2 | As you were over 75 and on a modest income , you were allowed the first £4,180 tax free . |
| 3 | So she 's written the first syllable as she feels it sounds ( coff- ) and that triggers the -ee . |
| 4 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 5 | The church had important links with the butchers of Prague and they were given the first chapel on the left at the W end in honour of their defence of Prague , once in 1611 against the troops from Passau , and again in 1648 , against the Swedes . |
| 6 | If it 's sold the first lender takes priority . |
| 7 | ‘ But he 's birdied the first four of the second nine . |
| 8 | He 's represented the first fifteen at Stowe School near Buckingham for the past five years . |
| 9 | He remained there until 1903 , when he was appointed the first , and only , director of the newly founded University of London Physiological Laboratory , established in the former Imperial Institute in South Kensington mainly as a result of Waller 's initiative . |
| 10 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 11 | In 1905 he was made the first patriarch templar . |
| 12 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 13 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 14 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 15 | Tonight , social services said nothing was done the first time because nobody believed the complaints . |