Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Total amount missing is close on fifteen grand and yours is the first to turn up . ’ |
| 2 | The baby soon learns that her presence is necessary for the satisfaction of its needs and she is the first individual " other " whom the infant recognises . |
| 3 | And he is the first to quit because of revelations about his private life since Energy Minister Cecil Parkinson admitted fathering a child by his secretary almost nine years ago . |
| 4 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 5 | There were three men named Robert Bindloss , and it is the first Sir Robert , a famous character , who is of particular interest in this context because of his fame in the wool trade . |
| 6 | This is the ship named after the hero of the Argentine Navy in the 19th century , and it is the first of four Meko type destroyers that Buenos Aires has purchased from the Hamburg shipyard ( who in turn have been supplied with Rolls-Royce engines ) . |
| 7 | Yesterday 's bombs are thought to have been Semtex and it is the first time outside the capital that devices have been casually placed by the road side . |
| 8 | Goldsmith talks with some conviction , but she is the first to admit that she is a phoney . |
| 9 | But he is the first to admit that the thought of SummerSlam ‘ 92 has set his knees a-trembling . |
| 10 | Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space . |
| 11 | PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen . |
| 12 | But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry . |
| 13 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 14 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 15 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 16 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 17 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |