Example sentences of "that [pron] [am/are] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure there are , but I can quite honestly say that you 're the first one I 've been aware of , or who 's made such a marked impression on me after so short an acquaintance . ’ |
| 2 | As new products become available we ensure that you are the first to know about them … and the first to be able to enjoy them . |
| 3 | And er we er ploughed through this until tonight , and er I think I 'm right , Mr returning officer , say that we 're the first Euro constituency in the northwest to get to this stage . |
| 4 | I understand that we are the first company in the catering industry to gain BS5750/ISO 9001 for franchising . |
| 5 | The thing that hit me , really hit me , was that they are the first group who have really said anything serious , analytical , about housework . |
| 6 | Surprisingly this does not conform to Egyptian conventions for depicting Semites or Nubians and their dress suggests that they are the first known representation in Egyptian art of the Mycenaeans , Bronze Age Greeks . |
| 7 | The view of Dmitri Obolensky , a leading authority on the Bogomils , is that they are the first European manifestation of a tradition which extends for over a thousand years from the teachings of Mani in third-century Mesopotamia to the Albigensian heresy , which appeared in southern France in the thirteenth century . |