Example sentences of "be [pron] first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My effective vote could be my first preference vote , in which case all my other preferences are null and void . |
| 2 | ‘ It must be his first win bonus for 2 years , ’ Kendall said after the match . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd be our first house guest , ’ James said . |
| 4 | The size of the brood was only six fish but as these were my first Cardinal Tetras I treated them as a normal spawning , with partial weekly water changes . |
| 5 | ‘ This is my first Brownie Challenge ! ’ she told herself . |
| 6 | MOTOROLA 68360 IS ITS FIRST 32-BIT MULTIPROTOCOL ENGINE |
| 7 | However , this is her first film role . |
| 8 | Tomorrow 's their first home game . |
| 9 | It is his first gallery exhibition in this country for more than five years and follows the exhilarating survey which took place at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1989 . |
| 10 | ‘ Is your first wife dead. ? ’ |
| 11 | If this is your first LIFESPAN installation , proceed directly to Section 2.5 , Creating the LIFESPAN Database . |
| 12 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 13 | This was my first sea voyage of any length and I looked forward with mixed feelings to the life on board ship , alone and with a crowd of passengers unknown to me . |
| 14 | In your letter dated Thu , 9 Dec 93 18:40:05 MET , you wrote : T was my first home game , Leeds vs Bradford one Wednesday evening , I can still remember the electric atmosphere at the ground . |
| 15 | It was my first 6-day race and I came here to enjoy it with no plan or target , so I 'm very happy to have had such a successful run . ’ |
| 16 | So there at Janet 's Foss was my first school trip of the season . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I was very conscious that it was my first League goal here since May , but it was well worth waiting for . ’ |
| 18 | was my first stage play that I ever did . |
| 19 | The way things have worked out , it was their First Division promotion rivals who needed to heed the warning — beware the ides of March ! |
| 20 | It was their first London home after their marriage in Wales some time in 1874–5 . |
| 21 | I used to tell trainees that it was their first aptitude test to see if they could make it over Stamford Street ! ’ was not too upset to find that she will have to devise a new aptitude test from the summer . |
| 22 | Ella was their first research student . |
| 23 | Pat and her then lover , former taxi-driver Bill Nadin ( he was her first childhood sweetheart ) used to hold great parties at the ancient tavern . |
| 24 | It was her first Party conference , and she was certain she could do far better than them . |
| 25 | Was he first Nguyen Tat Thanh ? |
| 26 | It was his first Government office in his 14-year House of Commons career . |
| 27 | This was his first mainline trip and he was grateful to Sam for his advice and also for him taking him on this trip . |
| 28 | It was his first Pipeline Masters . |
| 29 | It was his first London teaching job and he was working in the Humanities department : ‘ It was right in the beginning I suppose and there was about two months before I actually started . ’ |
| 30 | Throughout shooting , Crawford was on the set all the time , even when not needed , because it was his first film musical and he was eager to learn . |