Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | McCarthy is a 21-year-old central defender from Sherbourne , while Barry Ryan and Michael Curley are both from first division champions Limerick . |
| 2 | The tallest , heaviest boys were in the A group ; the next size down was B and so on until F. F was the group for the real tinies , the handful of Alec Davidsons who were mostly in first year . |
| 3 | Their line and length was immaculate and after 16 overs Park were still in first gear on 28 for one . |
| 4 | I thought you were here at first , or just nipped to the pub or something . ’ |
| 5 | Publications of this sort broke sharply with the anonymity and complete immunity from public scrutiny which had hitherto marked foreign offices , and were therefore at first greeted in them with doubt or hostility . |
| 6 | The complexity of new technology ( for users ) is high at first , but again decreases with subsequent releases of the product . |
| 7 | I think if the Liberal Club was only like First World War it was n't there it has n't always been there but the Conservative Club was there as long as I can remember . |
| 8 | It was low at first , then we could hear it rising until the whole auditorium was engulfed in gales of laughter at the poor preacher who had been duped by the Mau Maus . |
| 9 | In St Petersburg in 1789 the French ambassador was publicly congratulated by the Grand Duke Alexander ( later Alexander I ) on the fall of the Bastille , while Alexander 's younger brother the Grand Duke Constantine , who was later to become an extreme reactionary , was also at first an enthusiastic partisan of the Revolution . |
| 10 | The subjection of the industry to ‘ financial disciplines ’ was inevitably at first a slogan rather than a policy . |