Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 2 | Surrey County Council is to become the first local authority to sign the Peatland Protection Charter , and to commit itself to the phasing out of the use of peat in the council 's public parks , gardens and other landscaping activities . |
| 3 | BORIS Yeltsin is to make the first official visit to Britain by a Russian president in November . |
| 4 | Endless cups of coffee helped a bit but what a relief it was to see the first pale streaks of dawn creeping across the sky . |
| 5 | Osbern 's next service to the revival of the old observances after his return from Bec was to write the first coherent Life of Dunstan . |
| 6 | But that performance and the world record before the war inspired one young spectator at the White City , Roger Bannister , who was to run the first four-minute mile nine years later , and set off a string of British world record breakers , Derek Ibbotson , Sebastian Coe , Steve Ovett and Steve Cram . |