Example sentences of "are [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You are not the first English person to have admired Maria 's cooking . ’
2 I thought : These are just the first hundred , for the rest of my life — strangers who 'll know , who 'll find out , who 'll try not to react but who will react .
3 ‘ You know , surfers are probably the first human beings to travel around peacefully , not to conquer .
4 Expressing the operation of inverse Laplace transformation by , particularly useful results are where the first three represent the inverse forms of equations ( 11.27 ) , ( 11.28 ) and ( 11.29 ) obtained in the previous section .
5 In addition to taking ‘ core ’ studies , which are essentially the first two years of study and the final-year project , students may choose from optional units .
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