Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 2 | Well they 're just like the first one . |
| 3 | Older people are always among the first to be made redundant and to retire prematurely yet there is no evidence to show ‘ that redundancy or early retirement are seriously associated with health or any general tendency for workers to become less productive with age . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 5 | Although they are not competing this year , Tatra trucks are usually among the first home in the gruelling Paris-Dakar rally . |
| 6 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |
| 7 | Brothers and colleagues statistics show that the majority of car accidents are mainly within the first year of people passing their driving test . |
| 8 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 9 | The farmers are now among the first to use biological insecticides , becoming increasingly popular as a replacement to conventional chemical ones , to protect the environment and overcome the problem of resistance , which insects can develop after extended exposure to the same chemical . |
| 10 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
| 11 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
| 12 | One school of thought argued that mobile , offensive operations were no longer possible and future wars would be more like the first world war than the second . |
| 13 | Headingley saw a cracking match , and anyone lucky enough to be there on the first day is unlikely to have forgotten it . |
| 14 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
| 15 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 16 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 17 | On the one hand opinion polls showed Chirac to be the right-winger most likely to be ahead on the first ballot of a presidential election , making the RPR anxious to win agreement on primaries . |
| 18 | But whether you are here for the first or merely the latest time , as you enter the square — better still , as you emerge into it , blinking away the bright Milanese light as you climb up out of the Metro — there can be no doubting its magical ability to conjure a timeless moment of calm from out of the bustle . |
| 19 | But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time . |
| 20 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 21 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 22 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 23 | My thoughts the leaf stem should never have been there in the first place it was a waste of money . |
| 24 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 25 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 26 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 27 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 28 | The weather was not too promising , but we made good time and were soon at the first terrace . |
| 29 | Premier John Major and Japan 's foreign minister were yesterday among the first to remind Clinton of America 's responsibilities . |
| 30 | Printed materials published or distributed to accompany petitioning campaigns , in 1792 and 1823–4 for example , were clearly in the first instance intended to produce as many petition signatures as possible ; the mass of petitions was to be the weight behind the parliamentary initiatives of Wilberforce and Buxton . |