Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peterborough have been looking increasingly like first division fodder but today it was Birmingham who were left scrabbling around for crumbs and there were n't too many of them . |
| 2 | Over on the horizon there was a dark-blue smudge of land to be seen only in first clear light . |
| 3 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 4 | Data records held in sequential mode can be read only from first to last and all steps in any analysis run must be accomplished in a single ‘ pass ’ through the file . |
| 5 | Tait , son of an ex-Wor-kington Town star , was thrust immediately into first team action , scoring a try in the Premiership Final victory over St. Helens when he came on as substitute in only his third game . |
| 6 | Their top class operation was recognised recently with first place in northern region 's quarterly audit checks . |
| 7 | The sandstone was quarried here at first , but later mined when this was found to be more economical than removing the ‘ overburden ’ — the rock and soil which has to be dug away in quarrying to get at the useful strata . |
| 8 | Although the French offer of a ‘ half-peace ’ ( a truce for a set period of between fifteen and thirty years , in exchange for an English undertaking not to use the French royal title during that period ) was taken seriously at first , it was turned down when the English demanded a perpetual peace together with the grant of Normandy and an enlarged Aquitaine ( as in 1360 ) in full sovereignty . |