Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [be] the first " in BNC.
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1 | I think I am right to claim that I was the first to adopt this plan vs Rudi Douven at Charlton in 1983 . |
2 | For many years I was conscious that I was the first woman in my very large extended family to do this . |
3 | ‘ When we — I realised right away that I was the first man to … |
4 | Does my hon. Friend recall that I was the first Minister to have responsibility for small businesses — even before the hon. Member for Bradford , South ( Mr. Cryer ) ? |
5 | Well , in that she 's the first woman Prime Minister , she 's the longest serving Prime Minister of erm in this century . |
6 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
7 | Far less celebrated is the fact that she was the first contemporary British artist to win the international prize for painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968 . |
8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Or could it be that you were the first rebel in the household and that Suzie 's only following your example ? ’ |
11 | I admit it freely , and I admit that you were the first to make the diagnosis . ’ |
12 | So when , when you were working at Squires the fact that you were the first woman ? |
13 | 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 . |
14 | I understand that we are the first company in the catering industry to gain BS5750/ISO 9001 for franchising . |
15 | He went on : ‘ Looking back , the fact that we were the first to say Thatcher should go over the Lawson affair meant that we were in the game . |
16 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
17 | I promised to myself that I would never write an article about having a baby , never ever write that a baby was a celebration and examination of the mystery of our own being , and of course avoid the trap of believing that we were the first and only couple to have a baby . |
18 | The thing that hit me , really hit me , was that they are the first group who have really said anything serious , analytical , about housework . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Their ecological dominance and biological success for the past 80 to 100 million years may stem from the fact that they were the first group of predatory social insects that both foraged and lived in the realm of rotting vegetation on the ground . |
22 | I guess Jim meant that they were the first American string company to invent these strings . |
23 | They were innovators in that they were the first ones who did n't try to represent the melody as written . |
24 | Given the lavishness of accommodation provided for white and upper-class passengers on railway systems everywhere , it is ironic that they were the first to desert the railways . |
25 | The Liberal Democrats write to The Scotsman and say that they were the first to back the consortium . |
26 | ‘ It 's so flexible that it 's the first book we reach for , whether for an intensive teenager or adult refresher course . ’ |
27 | Mr Prokhorov said that the answer to the contradiction between political renewal and economic crisis lay in Marxism , which ‘ teaches us that the superstructure is more mobile than the base , and that it is the first to react to a change of conditions . ’ |
28 | It may well be that it is the first of these , his work in children 's theatre , for which he will be most remembered , for he revolutionised the whole conception of what forms theatre for children might take . |
29 | This morning she gives priority to the fact that it is the first day of the winter term , and that she has a lecture to deliver and two tutorials to conduct . |
30 | He says that it is the first time the Japanese governent has expressed interest in the IASC 's work . |