Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | De Gaulle 's foreign policy had restored a level of national self-respect and consensus that had been absent since the First World War . |
| 32 | John Beaumont , who moved in 1550 from the Court of Wards to the Mastership of the Rolls , was as corrupt in his second post as he had been greedy in the first . |
| 33 | He had been aware from the first that Louise disapproved of Grégoire , and disapproved of this informal adoption . |