Example sentences of "been [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hitherto the focus of economic restructuring had been on the first ( and to a lesser extent the second — see above ) . |
| 32 | We were there , too , as we have been on the first weekend of June in each of the past four years ; the roistering boys whose fever for drink and song has been jaded , ever so slightly , by contemplation of middle age and the fingering of indigestion tablets . |
| 33 | The writer was Ford Madox Ford , who was among the most loyal as he had been among the first of Pound 's friends ; in the twenties he was as penurious and as out of fashion as Pound . |
| 34 | The aqueous micelles comprising droplets of 1-octanol stabilised by octanoate ( surfactant is generated upon addition of sodium permanganate , which oxidises the alcohol to give the salt ) , could have biological relevance , because these may have been among the first prebiotic structures able to self-replicate . |
| 35 | As Ellen Wilkinson ( who in the 1920s had been among the first women in the Labour Party to support family allowances ) wrote in 1938 : ‘ what the Amery type want is to feed the existing and potential cannon-fodder with the greatest economy and lack of waste . |
| 36 | But the Pharisees would have provided him with some of his most loyal and fervent followers , and would have been among the first to regard him as the Messiah . |
| 37 | He was secure enough to mint his own silver pennies , which must have been among the first of the new coins to be produced and an indication of the economic vitality and continuing independence of his kingdom . |
| 38 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 39 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 40 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 41 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |