Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time .
2 ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . )
3 He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter .
4 Substitution drills would also be used a first step in mastering the totally different topic system in Dusun which we discussed in 7.1.8 .
5 This concept can then be designated the first ‘ unit ’ of that God .
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