Example sentences of "been [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 2 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 3 | Although we have no record , the Magnolia Grandiflora from the United States that clothe the wall of the north wing of the house must have been some of the first plantings of magnolias at Lanhydrock ; I would guess that are now well inside their second century . |
| 4 | She had n't even been nervous on the first night , not in the way other people were nervous . |
| 5 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 6 | In this Update , we hear from some of those who have been involved in the first year of the general SVQ pilot : students , teachers , lecturers , and trainers , as well as senior staff in colleges , schools , and training centres . |
| 7 | The second defendant also drove negligently and collided with the vehicles that had been involved in the first accident , killing the plaintiff . |
| 8 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 9 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 10 | The US , where Tie Rack now has 41 shops , has also been responsible for the first half loss . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , if he was repairing the machinery , it ca n't have been safe in the first place , can it ? ’ |
| 12 | By now a consequence has emerged which has been implicit from the first in the whole enterprise of grounding valuation in awareness , that Good has now the same claims to objectivity as Truth . |
| 13 | Dixons has been one of the first retail chains to suffer from the slowing of retail demand . |
| 14 | As the surface of the primeval Earth cooled , carbon will have been one of the first elements to solidify . |
| 15 | The Bodrum peninsular , within sight of the Dodecanese islands of Greece , has been one of the first areas of Turkey to attract British tourists . |
| 16 | Surely she would have been one of the first to hear . |
| 17 | Seppings , who used to say ‘ partial strength produces general weakness ’ , seems to have been one of the first Naval Architects to have a clear mental picture of the stress systems in a ship 's hull . |
| 18 | Public health had been one of the first major areas of government social intervention , beginning with the Public Health Act of 1848 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Having addressed the President and the Congress , and having conducted what must have been one of the first lecture tours of the United States , Owen set up a village of Co-operation at New Harmony , in Indiana . |
| 21 | Some of the government appointments as heads of the programme companies were proven professionals — under ORTF : for example , in 1978 , the head of TFI , Jean-Louis Guillaud , had previously advised Pompidou on broadcasting and prepared the launching of the third channel ; the head of A2 , Maurice Ulrich , would later be ‘ Chef de Cabinet ’ of Chirac when premier ( 1986–8 ) ; Claude Contamine , head of FR3 , and later ( 1986–9 ) head of A2 , had been one of the first — when assistant DG of ORTF in 1964 — to commission work from independent producers , despite ORTF 's formal monopoly of production ; further proof-if it were needed — of the longevity of the connection between broadcasting and the state . |
| 22 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 23 | The USSR had been one of the first governments to recognise the state of Israel in 1948 , but Soviet support was thereafter thrown behind the Arab cause and behind the Egyptian war effort in particular . |
| 24 | Combe Bank could be regarded as an attempt to reduce the four-corner-towered form of , for example , Lord Burlington 's Tottenham Park to the scale of a villa ; at Whitton Place he appears to have been one of the first Palladian architects to employ the three-sided bay-window motif ; and his stable block at Althorp , Northamptonshire ( 1732–3 ) , with its portico derived from St Paul Covent Garden is exceptional for the time in its exploitation of the bold simplicity of the Tuscan order . |
| 25 | He is alleged to have been one of the first Scots to take a degree at Cambridge . |
| 26 | Few had come that way since the Deosil Gate had been one of the first to collapse in a shower of white-hot embers . |
| 27 | England had been one of the first countries to adopt Gothic designs but was one of the last to relinquish the style which passed into a Perpendicular phase unique to the British Isles . |
| 28 | Recently Thresher has also been involved in the development of a national vocational qualification at levels 1–4 through the retail Certificate and it has been one of the first of three British companies to offer an opportunity for staff to obtain NVQ recognition through all stages . |
| 29 | Oh yes , yes she does , but , that 's about all she 's got two cousins , that 's right , and one of them 's married and got children and she used to have in the north , the great friend Sylvia from school days and Sylvia would of been one of the first Anglican Deacons to be ordained as a , as a priest |
| 30 | They 've been yo-yoing between the First and Second Divisions for as long as I can remember — at the time of writing , they 're well on their way to the Premier League . |