Example sentences of "[ex0] be [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thucydides writes with feeling : he complains in his own person in book v ( 68 ) of the secrecy with which the Spartans conduct their affairs , which meant that no one knew how many Spartans there were at the first battle of Mantinea in 418 . |
| 2 | And that was Stronsay there were about the first to have a diamond jubilee . |
| 3 | But when , after those two years , the valley had almost imperceptibly widened and there was for the first time , not those black enclosing cliffs , but the vista of a normal life , even of happiness , a landscape over which it was possible to believe the sun might shine , she had become unwittingly embroiled in the racial politics of her school . |
| 4 | At the start of the second world war , there was an enormous expansion in the Territorial Army , as there was in the first world war . |
| 5 | ( Last time I saw him there was in the first half vs Arse , where * Hodge * ! was given the right side … |
| 6 | than there was in the first place . |