Example sentences of "[prep] [be] the first in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 2 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 3 | It was to be the first in a long line of pay battles that would give her a reputation for being one of the toughest negotiators in the business . |
| 4 | It is intended to be the first in a family of products — Amstrad suggests an A4 colour version for architects , a desktop feature-phone with pen-screen , and in-car version with built in CD that would project the user 's position on a map through data collected by global positioning satellite . |
| 5 | The Birmingham-based company is understood to be the first in Europe with its ‘ AutoDeal ’ service which offers investors a telephone dealing system enabling them to place a purchase or sale order in the new BT shares from the start of trading 24 hours a day seven days a week . |
| 6 | Officials planning the counting of votes at the Town Hall are in a race of their own ; to be the first in Britain to declare a result . |
| 7 | Women Deacons in the Diocese of Oxford are to be the first in the country to be ordained as priests . |
| 8 | The Clwyd Social Services ' Bryn Tirion nursery , Henllan , is thought to be the first in North Wales to use only environmentally-friendly products in all its work . |
| 9 | A committee is to consider a recommendation from the region 's education director , David Semple , which is thought to be the first in Scotland to reject even special smoking areas within schools . |
| 10 | ‘ Timex is hoping to be the first in Europe to turn out a new £2,000 hi-fi system . |
| 11 | I have said consistently we do n't want to be the first in the industry , I would rather await either N A C O T , N A C O M or the U D M seeing what they , the outcome is there as we have traditionally done and then take it from there where you must agree that we have usually improved on their offer when it 's been made . |