Example sentences of "be [det] of [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 2 | The worlds relevant to assessing the right-hand side of the principle of closure are the nearest group in which q is true , and the nearest group in which q is false , i.e. completely different sets of worlds one of which may be , as in our actual example , far more remote from our world than are any of the first four groups . |
| 3 | They were some of the first cars to be withdrawn when the fleet was modernised , and they were scrapped in 1934 . |
| 4 | To live in these courts must have been like living in perpetual gloom , thank goodness they were some of the first to go during the rehousing purge between the wars . |
| 5 | it is therefore very close to a situation where the learned competence is that of a first language ( in the absence of rule-based knowledge of the second language ) monitoring the creation of a message in the second language from signs which have been acquired . |
| 6 | The decisive period of the assimilation of Greek culture in Rome is that of the first two Punic Wars . |
| 7 | Our earliest play-text of The Winter 's Tale is that of the First Folio , also of 1623 , and whether this represents a play-text from the missing licensed text or a later version we do not know . |