Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] be [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I must have been in first year juniors . |
| 2 | However much ignorant opposition there may have been at first to women taking part in public life , there are comparatively few cooperative men or women who would now oppose women being poor law guardians or members of educational communities . |
| 3 | Braque may have been at first bewildered by the Demoiselles d'Avignon , but he nevertheless responded to its stimulus , most immediately perhaps in the pen and ink drawing of three nudes published in 1910 as La Femme : the central figure , seated on her haunches , is a clear reference to the squatting Demoiselle , although the composition as a whole curiously anticipates that of Picasso 's Three Women . |
| 4 | The sentence imposed by the Court of Appeal presumably incorporates a discount to reflect the fact that the offender had to face the prospect of being sentenced a second time , but there is no indication of the extent of the discount : the case is therefore of limited value as an indication of what the proper sentence would have been at first instance . |
| 5 | If he had been told that the prime sources of his immense and , mathematically , infinitely expanding wealth were invariably polluted with the deceits and bad faith of exploitation , cruelty , oppression , barbarism , murder and vicious wrongdoing , he would have been at first amazed , then outraged and finally contemptuous , disbelieving the information . |