Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may knit the background or the pattern stitches of each row first , depending on whether you 're on the first two , or the last two , rows of the four-row cycle . |
| 2 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 3 | ‘ I was bumped on to the rail six or seven times and I think I would have been in the first four but for that , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Two more , and it was plain that she was hungry , just as Patrick had been in the first few weeks of life . |
| 5 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 6 | Four are in a first complete remission and one in partial remission . |
| 7 | ‘ But they are in the first two heats so we will know our fate very early . ’ |
| 8 | Or if there are a lot of runners , that horse will be in the first four . |
| 9 | We may not be in the First Eleven , but we are a pretty strong team , Hazlitt , Charles Lamb , Beerbohm , Chesterton and Haverford Downs . |
| 10 | The other bet says that horse will be in the first three . |
| 11 | ‘ I shall raffle you , to see who will be in the first half dozen . ’ |
| 12 | If they are ever opened , the Hunterston plants would be among the first direct reduction iron works in the Western world . |
| 13 | The crew of that canoe were believed to be among the first human beings to set foot on the Islands . |
| 14 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 15 | Turn-taking and interaction are among the first communicative skills . |
| 16 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |
| 17 | As in the case of the early home-grown British firms , many of the Big Four's consultants were of the first two types of headhunter we have identified : either the aristocrat with the old-boy network contacts or the practical selection and management consultant type whose experience was more in personnel than commerce and industry . |
| 18 | Most were within the first three years of taking out a mortgage and among people who bought property early in 1988 on over-generous terms that stretched monthly payments to the limits . |
| 19 | Secondly IBM found itself facing a steadily growing Japanese challenge , especially from Fujitsu , NEC and Hitachi — all three of which companies were in the first six in the world league for mainframes and for data processing overall . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , we did a lot of the soundtracks and we were in the first four or five . |
| 21 | This is how they were in the first few games of the season . |
| 22 | Consequently , a Filing Working Party was established and , alter extensive examination of the reference construction , it was found that the only changes considered viable ( ie that could be made without having to completely revise the titles of some 60,000 active files ) were to the first three fields of the reference structure , establishing the basis for a limited computerised search facility in the proposed index system , rather than the extensive facilities envisaged by the FAOR Team . |
| 23 | Mr Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman — who called for an early contest — and Mr Donald Dewar , Scottish spokesman , were among the first senior party figures publicly to throw their weight behind the Shadow Chancellor 's campaign . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , museums were among the first scientific institutions to receive direct government support for science , and particularly for scientific research . |
| 25 | At Penywaun , years later , he told me about John Evans and his sister as they were at the first two decades of this century : I sensed as a boy they were unusual but now I recognized how different they were . |
| 26 | The survival curve for the study shows that the highest mortality is during the first four years after diagnosis . |
| 27 | It is during the first few months in particular that these sorts of activities can affect the developing foetus , producing babies that may be premature , and with a low birth weight . |
| 28 | The critical time for an adverse effect on language development is during the first three years of life ( Sak and Ruben 1981 ; Zinkus et al . |
| 29 | it 's for the first three |
| 30 | It is after the first few years in employment that the profiles diverge dramatically and again the male/female contrast is vivid . |