Example sentences of "be the first [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 2 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 3 | Bleach are the first truly mind-boggling band ever to come from Ipswich , an archetypal Suffolk market town , once home of Bobby Robson and erm , that 's it . |
| 4 | It will be the first completely free election in East Europe in more than 40 years . |
| 5 | It will be the first completely non-smoking salon in the Colchester area for staff and clients . |
| 6 | When somebody breaks my British record , I 'll be the first there with my good wishes . |
| 7 | The new 0662 family is a line of 1.0Gb 1″ high , 3.5″ disk drives claimed to be the first anywhere to store 1Gb in a 1″ high unit using a second generation magneto-resistive head for areal density of 354M-bytes per square inch . |
| 8 | But from 1 January 1993 the three will join the UK 's fully fledged car company bosses ; the Marcos Mantara , Caterham K-series and Westfield ZEi will be the first ever kit cars to be sold fully built up , thanks to a helpful new bit of bureaucracy : Low Volume Type Approval . |
| 9 | The event that set the modern Pacific on its unrelenting climb towards world dominion happened , by an entirely appropriate coincidence , to be the first ever shown clear across America , on coast-to-coast television . |
| 10 | They are claimed to be the first ever to enable system administrators to monitor and manage all their computing resources — computers , networks , and relational database applications — from one central management console . |
| 11 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 12 | This will be the first ever opportunity for editors of Christian magazines in the Middle East to meet to share their common concerns and examine their role in the Church and in society . |
| 13 | In France it would be the first ever 8c+ . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the union said that if negotiations failed , there would be no alternative to strike action.If the strike goes ahead it will be the first ever nationwide strike to take place in The Royal Bank of Scotland . |
| 15 | If that is the case you 'll be the first ever case of a Western government being so reprimanded . |
| 16 | This was not one of life 's big surprises and actually it set one to wondering if he might be the first ever since the whole shameless , glittering , addictive business began back in 1927 . |
| 17 | Those that were n't instantly flattened proved to be the first genuinely air-worthy chickens I had ever seen . |
| 18 | He adds : ‘ If you long for the day when Britain can claim to be the first mainly Afro-Asian part of Europe , vote Conservative or Europe . ’ |
| 19 | Ironically , in view of Tanzania 's later advance along a socialist path , this proved to be the first entirely commercial radio service in English-speaking Africa . |
| 20 | Late last week , Hewlett-Packard Co released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 21 | Hewlett-Packard Co has released HP OpenWarehouse , claiming it to be the first fully scalable open system for data warehousing and contrasting it with mainframe-based and proprietary data-warehousing offerings , and saying that the open systems approach enables it to offer data warehousing at a small fraction of the cost of proprietary systems . |
| 22 | Being the first ashore was an honourable achievement which brought its own reward ; respectability was what Fastolf was claiming . |
| 23 | This was to be a great success for him , being the first ever history of an English county . |
| 24 | ‘ Outernational ’ is significant in being the first purely solo Mackenzie work . |
| 25 | He is the first today . |
| 26 | It is the first commercially available ODBMS on NeXT . |
| 27 | It is the first commercially published book illustrated by photography . |
| 28 | Mr Hockney , 55 , has taken his role as designer seriously — this is the first completely new Hockney design to be seen at Covent Garden . |
| 29 | The new Waterbase brush from Hamilton Acorn is the first specifically designed for water-based paints — gloss and satin , plus woodstains and varnish . |
| 30 | At 18 , Wren Karen McCurdy is the first fully qualified female Port Diver in the Royal Naval Reserve . |