Example sentences of "be the first [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 2 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 3 | Despite them the withdrawal went smoothly , with the Colonel , who had been the first man ashore , the last man off , just behind Charley Head , who , as signals officer , had kept up a stream of messages , 40 an hour at one point , that included reassuring but unproven ‘ going well ’ reports . |
| 4 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 5 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 6 | And you are the first person now I ever told it to . |
| 7 | ‘ No , sir , you 're the first customer tonight . ’ |
| 8 | You think I 'm the first girl ever to meet a man in secret ? |
| 9 | This must be the first year when new rock boot models have n't been coming out of everyone 's ears . |
| 10 | I will stick my neck out and say that he will be the first superbike home , in at least one race , with Mitchell taking the other . |
| 11 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 12 | More fun is to be had with the excitable Katch-22 , who favours the talking-about-himself approach to rap and a wider range of noises , most notably on the sprightly ‘ Service With A Smile ’ , which may well be the first tune ever to contain the line ‘ You paedophile ’ . |
| 13 | This must be the first review ever to end with a load of balls ! |
| 14 | What would be the first stage then ? |
| 15 | NCR Corp has won a $2m contract to provide Dutch tour operator Arke Reizen NV with one of its massively parallel System 3600 systems : the machine will serve 800 terminals at Arke Reizen 's head office and 9,000 additional remote terminals in offices across the Netherlands , it will also handle some 500,000 bookings a year and calculate and maintain Arke Reizens 's financial accounts ; it is believed to be the first time massively parallel technology has been used to handle day-to-day travel transactions — although a number of travel agents use it to analyse marketing data . |
| 16 | It must be the first time ever in the Five Nations Championship that two referees have dropped out of the opening games , with England 's Ed Morrison missing the Ireland v Wales game through a rib injury , and Yours Truly having to watch the England v Ireland game on television through a ‘ flu virus . |
| 17 | For many of them , the classroom will be the first place where they are able to play with water and even spill it on the floor without incurring an adult 's displeasure . |
| 18 | Think , son , you 'll be the first actor ever to speak the lines ! ’ |
| 19 | As well as being the first UK woman to climb the mountain she intends to be the first female ever to make the ascent without oxygen . |
| 20 | Central London , where even Hitler 's bombs never stopped the daily pinta getting through , may be the first area where the milkie becomes an extinct species . |
| 21 | America was conceived in vision as one of the greatest dreams of men ; it was to be the first nation ever to escape from oppression and the freed spirit would bring forth a splendid nation . |
| 22 | She is very proud of being the first person ever to sit on her ; Pauline broke the pony and the two have done all the training since , with professional help in the later stages from instructor Mal Kendall . |
| 23 | Craobh nan Ubhal ( The Apple Tree ) is the first play ever to be written and performed in Gaelic , Doric and English . |
| 24 | Arsenal 's is the first name out of the hat , but Collins is unaware of any movement on that front . |
| 25 | We then thought it would be appropriate to combine the best traditional ILN subjects with articles which were proving so successful in these other magazines , and the result is the first issue now in front of you . |
| 26 | In 1912 golf progressed actively and is the first year when the Captain 's Prize is mentioned , as is the Caddies ' competition , which was probably as equally impressive in the quality of golf . |
| 27 | So this is the first problem where w we , we talk about the management of quality . |
| 28 | But when I interview Johnny Suede writer-director Tom DiCillo a couple of weeks later , ‘ instinctive ’ is the first adjective out of his mouth to describe Pitt 's performance as a huge-quiffed , suede-shoe-loving Ricky Nelson wannabe . |
| 29 | You 've got that right and you 've got carriage wrong and yet the only difference is the first letter right ? |
| 30 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |