Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] in [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall .
2 The native slaves owned by Russians of all social classes were in the first place either prisoners-of-war or women and children captured after the men of a native community had been killed .
3 We can specify a point by saying what its coordinates are in the first field of view
4 In brief : Salha was directly related to five of the seven households whose girls were in the first cohort , and her acceptance of the headmaster 's plans was influential in persuading the mothers of the girls that they should agree .
5 Yeah he did , yeah , cos the girls were in the first class and he was in the nursery , yeah that 's right , yeah , and they .
6 Women with children were in the first buses .
7 She had a point ; the sports clothes were in the first part of the programme — there should be time for her to change into the wedding dress for the finale .
8 If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit .
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