Example sentences of "be [pers pn] [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is she the first woman to have a baby ? |
| 2 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
| 3 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |
| 4 | Is it the first time , for instance , you have been told you only enter into relationships for what you can get out of them ? |
| 5 | Is it the first verse of ‘ Three Blind Mice ’ or ‘ Mary , Mary Quite Contrary ’ or ‘ Jack and Jill ’ ? |
| 6 | Not only was she the first female to break through the glass ceiling in Engineering , but to become a star throughout the company because she did the job with such panache ? |
| 7 | Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing ! |
| 8 | Not only was it the first death , but it could easily have been little Enoch , or Jane . |
| 9 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |