Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] be [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 2 | Indeed it is only , or at least primarily , in the development of material techniques of the fourth and fifth types that what is at first not much more than a relatively open specialization and diversity of attention becomes a formative and even determining set of divisive social relations . |
| 3 | If they go in that condition the tax charged will be cheaper than if they 're in first class condition . |
| 4 | I 'll see if they 're in first . |
| 5 | In other words , it had to be accurate in every tiny detail and to look as if it was at first glance . |
| 6 | Increasingly candidates thought able enough were entered for O and even A levels ( and rightly , because there was at first no other examination for them to take ) and when the CSE examination was introduced for those thought not to be up to O level , the top grade of CSE was soon deemed to count as an O level , and thus itself to aspire to the academic . |
| 7 | While it was at first related to a vocational interest in commerce and administration , it developed during the twentieth century into a specialist and academic science , rather than a field of practical commercial study . |
| 8 | Er it 's not difficult at all really Don , I think when you 're at first thing do , it might be a bit of a |
| 9 | Ecology could exist at the research level even though it was at first difficult to introduce it into the universities and schools as an academic discipline . |
| 10 | In 1963 came the signing of the Anglo-French agreement to build Concorde ( or ‘ Concord ’ as it was at first spelled in Britain ) , and the video faithfully traces it right back to the earliest days of its conception . |
| 11 | But as he was at first without a seat in Parliament and in any event left almost immediately for extended duty in the United States , he was unable either to galvanize or to discharge any of the traditional functions of his office . |