Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not the first English person to have admired Maria 's cooking . ’ |
| 2 | I thought : These are just the first hundred , for the rest of my life — strangers who 'll know , who 'll find out , who 'll try not to react but who will react . |
| 3 | Its a stranger 's car … but all three children happily get into it … and they 're not the first many of the 750 youngsters … who 've attended Aylesbury Police 's emergency training session … have been tricked by Police officers posing as strangers … |
| 4 | ‘ You know , surfers are probably the first human beings to travel around peacefully , not to conquer . |
| 5 | Expressing the operation of inverse Laplace transformation by , particularly useful results are where the first three represent the inverse forms of equations ( 11.27 ) , ( 11.28 ) and ( 11.29 ) obtained in the previous section . |
| 6 | In addition to taking ‘ core ’ studies , which are essentially the first two years of study and the final-year project , students may choose from optional units . |