Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I love to go out dancing but you wo n't catch me being the first on the dance floor ! |
| 2 | Do you know who was the first to coach the men 's and women 's champions in one year ? |
| 3 | Campaigners say it 's the first step towards closure , but BR says it 's actually planning to spend more money on the line , not less . |
| 4 | Customs officers say it 's the first time European green law has been used in Britain this way . |
| 5 | Customs men say it 's the first time they 've used Cites to seize timber |
| 6 | Soviet strikes point to crisis of morale that threatens future of perestroika Broadcasts of parliament get more viewers than Agatha Christie films It is the first November 7 since the revolution that coal miners have been on strike . |
| 7 | I believed I was the first anthropologist in France to understand what this means . |
| 8 | I mean listen I 'm the first person to talk in in support of body piercing I look I have parts of my body pierced I like it but I do n't think standing around the street corners sort of revealing it is a nice thing to do . |
| 9 | Pliny names Archermos in a family of Chiot sculptors , and another writer says he was the first to give Nike wings . |
| 10 | It says it 's the first product to fully support the Intel Express motherboard architectures with DEC 's high-performance graphics , SCSI and networking chipsets and adapters . |
| 11 | Slater also says it 's the first and only time he 's ever seen clock ratings take such baby steps — 33 to 40 to 45 to 50 . |
| 12 | Internal trimming allows a claim of better than +-0.25% multiplication error with no external trim and AD says it is the first type to offer fully differential , high input-impedance working on all inputs , including the Z input . |
| 13 | Citizen , which developed it , says it is the first watch to have a built-in radio that tunes to time broadcasts linked to highly accurate atomic clocks . |
| 14 | Compaq Computer Corp says it is the first major personal computer manufacturer to receive a 1993-1994 US General Services Administration Schedule contract , which runs to March 31 1994 and makes it easier for the federal government to buy Compaq products at pre-set prices . |
| 15 | It is also said to be the largest UK supplier of Unix and open systems training , and ICL says it is the first company to receive accreditation from Unix International Inc for its portfolio of Unix courses . |
| 16 | Candle says it has successfully tested key DCE components within its Distributed Computing Server component in an MVS-OS/2 client-server environment and says it is the first implementation of DCE on an MVS system . |
| 17 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , come on , you do n't really think you 're the first man who 's issued me this kind of invitation ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Oh no , darling , you did n't think you were the first clever little bitch to have the idea ? |
| 20 | ‘ Anyhow , since the earliest Mr Gajdusek will see me is the first week in April , it could n't have worked out better . ’ |
| 21 | As it happened I was the first to reach the meeting place , and soon , four others turned up . |
| 22 | Iberia reckons it is the first European carrier to offer flights from America to third countries . |
| 23 | Providing something that is high on most corporate users ' wish lists , Hewlett-Packard Co has come up with an SQL-based interface that can read and update data in a non-relational network database , and reckons it is the first vendor to do so . |
| 24 | Sun will claim it 's the first machine capable of running an entire database out of main memory . |
| 25 | Soon her ordeal would be over and she vowed it was the first and last time she would act as model . |
| 26 | He ate pork chops in tomato sauce with us that evening , and claimed it was the first good meal he had had in six months . |
| 27 | Many critics suspect it is the first stage in the construction of the repository itself , a highly controversial project . |
| 28 | From the foam on it I guessed it was the first out of the keg that evening . |
| 29 | When the 28-bedroom Sundial opened it was the first new hotel in the town for 240 years . |
| 30 | What can you mind what was the first sort of action on Hoy that impressed you cos Well you 'd been there all your life you would have really seen the whole process happening . |