Example sentences of "[conj] they [am/are] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that hit me , really hit me , was that they are the first group who have really said anything serious , analytical , about housework . |
| 2 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 3 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |
| 4 | But they 're the first people in the country to benefit from a revolutionary kind of wheelchair ; the Sapphire . |
| 5 | It 's happening principally with the small and medium size businesses because they 're the first to suffer . |