Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [be] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like James , Simon Peter is at first a devout Jew , who sees Jesus 's teaching exclusively in a Judaic context . |
| 2 | In the confusion following Belgium 's partial withdrawal from its colony , the UN force was at first given the foolish order not to shoot unless attacked . |
| 3 | The Lincoln Red was at first known as the Lincolnshire Red Shorthorn : it originated when eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Durham and Yorkshire Shorthorn bulls were put on the large , rugged , pied Old Lincolnshire short-horned draught cows which could withstand all the weather thrown at this east coast county by the cold North Sea winds . |
| 4 | Coleridge 's Somerset household was at first intended to have a touch of Pantisocratic inclusiveness . |
| 5 | Collis King is at first slip . |
| 6 | Her body was found by a man walking along the beach at Reculver , near Herne Bay , on February 28 but Kent police were at first unable to identify her . |