Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [be] [art] first " in BNC.

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1 But you 're the first to confess . ’
2 I , I have n't been on but you 're the first people I 've told this to , I have been out with somebody who has been on
3 Er , she 's been at the , well something I did n't know , she 's been at the depot the shortest time of all our indoor , but she 's the first one to get the first day to , percent , , so that 's good .
4 Goldsmith talks with some conviction , but she is the first to admit that she is a phoney .
5 Robert Halsband writes : ‘ Mrs. Yearsley was not the first of those whom Robert Southey called ‘ Our Uneducated Poets ’ but she was the first notable woman among them . ’
6 But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day .
7 But we 're the first major company in Britain , so our is second to none , our experience with the contract is second to none .
8 Mr Dharman Wickremaratne , SLEJF 's Chairman , said of the award , ‘ There are nearly 70 organisations worldwide working in the field of environmental journalism and communication , but we are the first to receive the Global 500 Award , ’
9 But we were the first metal band to have a platinum album and the first metal band to sell six million albums in the States alone .
10 Desktop Publisher certainly was n't the first newsletter to be produced using computers , many titles are word processed , nor was it the first publication to be desktop published , that honour probably goes to The Wordsmith , but we were the first newsletter to specialise on desktop publishing !
11 Er , b , but we were the first company , back in , I think 1987 , to bring out living insurance .
12 But they 're the first people in the country to benefit from a revolutionary kind of wheelchair ; the Sapphire .
13 But they were the first people to sell a motor car in Galashiels .
14 ‘ The flights were flagrant violations of the no-fly zone but they were the first armed attacks recorded by the UN since shortly after the no-fly zone was instituted ’ last October , the State Department spokesman , Richard Boucher , said .
15 But he is the first to admit that the thought of SummerSlam ‘ 92 has set his knees a-trembling .
16 Richardson is not of course the first great English novelist , but he is the first to be interested in houses , for the characters created by his predecessor , Defoe , and his contemporary , Fielding , are too often on the move to develop much awareness of their living space .
17 PAUL STEWART is now a 2.3 million midfield player at Liverpool but he is the first to admit it needed a referee 's red card to make it all happen .
18 But he 's the first to admit you can take the man out of the army , but you ca n't take the army out of the man .
19 But he was a first class tradesman .
20 But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right !
21 He expected Bunny to stay behind , but he was the first out of the door .
22 But he was the first grown-up person who assumed I could discuss ideas .
23 But it is a first step towards better value for defence dollars and D-marks .
24 But it is a first charge on the estate .
25 There is no evidence for this belief except one doubtful piece of hearsay ; but it is a first principle of modern reactions to Freud and psychoanalysis that facts count for nothing if the mythology is appealing enough .
26 But it is the first possible answer that presents the immediate worry .
27 He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years .
28 It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers .
29 That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so .
30 But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale .
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