Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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1 | He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived . |
2 | Anna Freud ( 1943 , 1960 ) , who had been one of the first to call attention to the emotional difficulties of small children separated from their mothers , attacked from yet another angle , affirming the emotional need , not only in the baby but in his mother , to be together during the first weeks of the child 's life , and criticizing maternity hospital practice that separated the two . |
3 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
4 | CHESTER 'S tuberculosis scare appears to be over as the first results of tests on 500 children were released yesterday . |
5 | One school of thought argued that mobile , offensive operations were no longer possible and future wars would be more like the first world war than the second . |
6 | Sunsoft Inc has admitted that a fully binary shrink-wrapped version of Solaris 2.0 on Intel wo n't be out until the first quarter of 1993 . |
7 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
8 | Support for DEC 's Alpha Windows NT will be out in the first quarter of 1994 . |
9 | The company , which was to have introduced a mid-range , 80486-based TC1000 series of fault-tolerant systems earlier this year ( UX No 378 ) , says they 'll also be out in the first quarter of 1993 . |
10 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
11 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
12 | Headingley saw a cracking match , and anyone lucky enough to be there on the first day is unlikely to have forgotten it . |
13 | Crawford returned to repertory work to be there for the first three months , appearing alongside stars such as Leo McKern , who had turned down two films and offers from the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company to go to Nottingham , and classical actor John Neville , who had just starred in Alfie on the London stage and was giving up 200-a-week West End rates for the 20 to 50 Playhouse level . |
14 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
15 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
16 | On the one hand opinion polls showed Chirac to be the right-winger most likely to be ahead on the first ballot of a presidential election , making the RPR anxious to win agreement on primaries . |