Example sentences of "be the first [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
| 2 | I am the first musician in my family . |
| 3 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 4 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 5 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 6 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 7 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 8 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 9 | It was Canning , after all , who had been the first virtuoso of diplomacy by public opinion . |
| 10 | Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house . |
| 11 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 12 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 13 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 14 | P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier . |
| 15 | I had been the first Chairman of Wells-Next-The-Sea , Town Council , but two or three years afterwards , we decided to turn , er , the old cinema , they wanted to turn the old cinema into a Dance Hall . |
| 16 | But for Christians Sunday has been the first day of the week ever since the faith came into being . |
| 17 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 18 | That voyage had been the first leg of a planned circumnavigation , but those dreams had been brutally shattered when Masquerade was stolen from an anchorage in the Florida Keys . |
| 19 | They 'll not have been the first tourists to be fed to the sharks and they wo n't be the last . ’ |
| 20 | Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals . |
| 21 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 22 | Tendring Council is one of the forerunners in dog control and advice , having been the first authority in Essex to employ a dog warden and introduce dog control byelaws , added Mr Coulter . |
| 23 | Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 . |
| 24 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 25 | It had been the first casino in modern Russia , had operated out of a converted bedroom on the second floor . |
| 26 | Indeed , it appears that an unknown Spanish haulier on this sailing had been the first trucker to actually receive a tangible benefit from the Single Market . |
| 27 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 28 | It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war . |
| 29 | Dr Jaffery said that very few people in Delhi now wanted to study classical Persian , the language which , like French in Imperial Russia , had for centuries been the first tongue of every educated Delhi-wallah . |
| 30 | We pray for those who are sad because it has been the first Christmas without a loved one , and who grieve with their memories . |