Example sentences of "[adv] [be] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many sea-green incorruptibles will be there , but might this commercial fair be the first harbinger of green over-kill ? |
| 2 | Crawford had not been the first choice to play Feste , until Colin Graham — who directed him in Benjamin Britten productions was brought in . |
| 3 | She had not been the first woman to offer him a smile during the past few hour . |
| 4 | Coetzer would not be the first South African Bruno has faced . |
| 5 | ‘ It 'll not be the first man I 've seen after he 's tried to fill up a car with a lighted cigarette in his mouth — nor the last . |
| 6 | Such advertisements cost money , and it will not be the first thought of a local authority , which has many staff and functions outside the SSD , to pay for similar campaigns . |
| 7 | Descombes describes a comparable paradoxical structure in his account of ‘ originary delay ’ : a first event can not be the first event if it is the only event ; it can not be said to be a first until it is followed by a second , which then retrospectively constitutes it as the first — which means that its firstness hovers over it as its meaning without being identifiable with it as such . |
| 8 | But if this colt was beaten today , he would certainly not be the first winter favourite for a Classic to flop first time out as a three-year-old . |
| 9 | NO DOUBT I shall not be the first person to point out to your wine buff Malcolm Gluck ( Domaine Anthea ‘ 87 , et al , Food & Drink , October 28 ) that it was Althea — not Anthea — who received a note written from prison . |
| 10 | If Tim were guilty and told her so , he would not be the first person who had admitted a crime to a journalist . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's only one conclusion we can reach , Master Coroner — Sir Ralph might not be the first person to die in the Tower before Yuletide comes . ’ |
| 12 | This public celebration is still usually followed by the private honeymoon , despite the fact that for many it will not be the first holiday they have had together . |
| 13 | Because they have extra financial resources they will not be the first company to go bust . |
| 14 | It might not be the first occurrence , she realised . |
| 15 | It will not be the first match involving a South African representative side on West Indian soil ; symbolically that honour befell the Jamaican and South African under-19 teams who met in a 50-over contest yesterday just outside Kingston . |
| 16 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 17 | You will not be the first debtor they 've had to deal with , and their experience and understanding could help you take the first step on the road to recovery . |
| 18 | He will not be the first cabinet secretary to sell this line of being a decent person savaged by a three-headed Cerberus in the White House . |
| 19 | In general , then , ostensive definition relies upon the previous existence of conceptual knowledge , and can not be the first source of such knowledge . |
| 20 | It would not be the first time that it had done so . |
| 21 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 22 | This will not be the first time it has been tried , and the observations of one former planning official are worth quoting at length : |
| 23 | It would not be the first time that a ‘ bad cold ’ has referred to a political chill rather than a runny nose . |
| 24 | I pause to observe that this would not be the first time that , in this field , Parliament has conferred on the English court a jurisdiction of unlimited territorial application . |
| 25 | It would not be the first time that a Court sorcerer had been lured away from the strong pure magic of Ireland and sworn allegiance to the Dark Realm . |
| 26 | Might he not be playing a far deeper game although not a new one , since it would not be the first time that the man who hatched the plot and encouraged others most ardently to join it , should be the very one to turn his fellow conspirators over to the magistrates . |
| 27 | The World Championship match will not be the first time the two players have contested a world title . |
| 28 | ‘ If I was coming home tired , ’ said Whatham , ‘ a play by a dissident Czech playwright would not be the first programme I would turn on . |
| 29 | A Family Division lawyer remarked last night : ‘ The Duke of York would not be the first husband to be enraged by a photograph of a man lying on top of his wife . |
| 30 | It is perfectly clear that , while the defence of this country is the first priority of the present Government , it might not be the first priority of the Opposition if they were to make the defence cuts to which they have committed themselves . |