Example sentences of "that [noun sg] [be] the first " in BNC.

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1 Furthermore the company is claiming to have the market to itself and that Workbench is the first tool set specifically aimed at mainframe maintenance to run on personal computers .
2 " Do you know , Dida — that ceiling is the first part of Portugal I 've seen that is just as I imagined it . "
3 The relevance is that Bagehot was the first political commentator .
4 We do believe , however , that Falconet is the first jet aircraft to be centrifugally launched .
5 The er hopeful line I think , in that psalm is the first one , Make a joyful noise to the Lord , all the lands .
6 He had swiftly risen to prominence during student demonstrations in favour of a multiparty system in Tirana in December 1990 , and the DP had that month been the first opposition party to be formed [ see p. 37924 ] .
7 We 'll also indicate the beginning of each paragraph by indenting the first line , except where that paragraph is the first of a section .
8 If , in the Victorian novel , a disproportionate number of working-class interiors are attractive , it is partly because the theorists of infection were all agreed that cleanliness was the first step towards prevention .
9 Not that childbirth was the first thing on anyone 's mind yesterday .
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