Example sentences of "be [not/n't] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if on your coming to England I am not the first person you look for , I shall be very hurt indeed ! |
| 2 | Judges are not the first species that springs to mind as a faithful tribune of popular perception . |
| 3 | Spitting and firing are not the first words to spring to mind when Yorkshire 's venerable left-arm spinner Phil Carrick is mentioned . |
| 4 | The light-sensitive cells ( " photocells " ) are not the first thing the light hits , but they are buried inside and facing away from the light . |
| 5 | It can be a relief to discover that some of the worrying physical symptoms are not the first indications of some dreaded disease but are stress-related and represent perfectly normal ways of reacting to stress . |
| 6 | Moreton and Furley are not the first men to die of redundancy . |
| 7 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 8 | Nineteen fifty one , we moved in , er and , I 've had , you 're not the first person to come all round here , this house , they used , they used to come round in shows from the Corporation all visitors used to come , they used to say , right Jean can we bring them round we 've had people from Germany and everywhere and being in the architect 's department I fell for all this you know I had |
| 9 | You 're not the first person that have ever thought of it though , that 's what I 'm trying to say to you |
| 10 | ‘ I have to confess , you 're not the first woman I 've made love to . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not the first visitor to this little planet of yours , you know . ’ |
| 12 | If you 're gon na turn to stealing , then from then on it 's gon na be not the last resort any more , it 's gon na be one of the first resorts because it pays so much quicker . |
| 13 | DARLINGTON were not the first NorthEast team to find that Tranmere always pack their reserve side with first-team players . |
| 14 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 15 | But these fourth-century ‘ apparatchiks ’ , the men of the age of Eubulus ( p. 245 ) , were not the first Athenians to gain power by boring work on committees . |
| 16 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 17 | They were discovered in a search for diuretics , i.e. drugs which increase the volume of urine , and were not the first diuretics to have additional valuable properties . |
| 18 | Thus the main business of futures exchanges outside the US , which were not the first movers into the global markets , is in contracts for local bonds and share indexes . |
| 19 | But we were n't the twelfth choice . |
| 20 | Stephen Duck , however , is not the first instance of a labouring class poet in the eighteenth century . |
| 21 | But it is not the first case where an Australasian entrepreneur , hailed as a hero when things are going well , has found himself brought to earth with an ignominious bump when the going gets tough . |
| 22 | Clozapine is not the first treatment for schizophrenia to be hailed as a significant advance , nor is it the first to raise ethical dilemmas . |
| 23 | It is not the first occasion that I have had to accept the disappointment of missing an international . |
| 24 | Ballesteros is not the first person to be challenged by the complexities of life . |
| 25 | Parul Courtney told the court that she knew he had made love to other women , but added : ‘ My husband is not the first person to have an affair , nor the last . ’ |
| 26 | But you see this is not the first chiller is it . |
| 27 | If this is not the first LSSTRT since system startup , you may also get a %DCL-I-SUPERSEDE message , telling you that the logical name LIFESPANCONFIGURATION has been reassigned . |
| 28 | THIS IS NOT the first sentence of my column . |
| 29 | ALAN Sugar is not the first entrepreneur who has quit the City . |
| 30 | He is not the first Cabinet minister from Shotts . |