Example sentences of "[noun sg] to be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Falcon Scott leaves New Zealand on his doomed bid to be the first to reach the South Pole . |
| 2 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 3 | His big break came when a Rolling Stone critic gave him a rave write-up and major record companies fell over themselves in an attempt to be the first to sign this new blues sensation . |
| 4 | R. W. Gibson and J. A. Pickett of Rothamsted Experimental Station in Harpenden believe their discovery to be the first example of a food crop plant using insect pheromones in this way , and suggest that this mode of protection could be introduced to cultivated species ( Nature . |
| 5 | A race to be the first man at the South Pole , in Antarctica . |
| 6 | Tito 's troops entered Carinthia on 6 May and on 8 May only just lost to 5 Corps the race to be the first to enter the provincial capital Klagenfurt . |
| 7 | So , in the morning , whatever our true inclinations , we practically trample each other in our race to be the first one up and doing . |
| 8 | The Institute of Public Relations , he wagers , has yet to acknowledge Paul Joseph Goebbels 's claim to being the first ‘ fully-fledged image-maker ’ . |
| 9 | Your claim to be the first publication to print dog obituaries made me wonder how many other readers remember the Tail-wagger magazine , which had a regular In Memoriam column . |
| 10 | THE discovery of a simple lead fishing weight sheds doubt on Captain Cook 's claim to be the first European to set foot on the shores of Terra Australis . |
| 11 | Nimbus believes HyperSparc may even leapfrog Viking to be the first of the superscalars to become available to all-comers . |
| 12 | Males compete mainly , say Packer and Pusey , by trying to anticipate oestrous in a female to be the first to consort with her . |
| 13 | She wanted the strength to be the first to pull away but it would n't come , that little bit extra that would separate desire from decency . |