Example sentences of "be among [art] first [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Unix bigots initially thought these long-term investments might be among the first to go . |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend repeat the commitment given by the Secretary of State for the Environment when he said that the new councils of Avon , Cleveland and Humberside would be among the first to receive the benefit of that new commission ? |
| 3 | Furthermore , those species that accidentally forged some connecting suspension for the front legs independent of the skull would be among the first to walk , otherwise the head would have to turn constantly from side to side as it did so . |
| 4 | Consequently , those British cities and towns which have large numbers of people using injectable drugs may be among the first to experience full-blown AIDS/HIV epidemics , not just because needle-sharing can spread the virus between drug users , but because infected drug users-particularly the young and single-are likely to spread the virus to the wider population through sexual contacts . |
| 5 | You will be among the first to know how a new release can really help you , already evaluated and tested by our experts . |
| 6 | We will keep you informed of developments , but if you wish to be among the first to know you should sign on to our mailing list if you have not done so already . |
| 7 | ‘ May I be among the first to offer my congratulations ? ’ |
| 8 | If war and destruction were to break loose , the small landlords with property easily burnt would be among the first to suffer . |
| 9 | North Yorkshire chief executive Ron Leyland said they were glad to be among the first considered but felt the present system worked well . |
| 10 | The company plans to concentrate on Britain , Germany and Belgium — the areas expected to be among the first to benefit from a turnaround in the property sector , especially in industrial and office buildings . |
| 11 | We 're going live to Gloucester , where Kim Barnes is with a group of women who hope to be among the first to benefit from today 's vote . |
| 12 | They are among the first to acknowledge their relative inexperience in the shortened version of the game , pointing out that sevens has not captured the imagination of Southern Africa and that Hong Kong was Namibia 's first international sevens appearance . |
| 13 | Eleven middle managers in the Health Service in the Oxford region are among the first to take part in a new management training programme . |
| 14 | The evidence indicates that the polar regions are among the first to detect changes arising from greenhouse warming . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Women in Cheltenham have been among the first to try out the NORPLANT contraceptive . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | GUINNESS HAS PULLED OUT ALL THE technological stops in its latest marketing drive — and employees were among the first to see the imaginative Taste Sensation before it went out on the road . |
| 19 | Americans were among the first to collect Monet , and Boston , where this show originated , possesses more examples of his work than any other city except Paris . |
| 20 | Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey were among the first to import them into England , and the painter Hans Holbein has since had a particular type of design named after him because of the number of times it featured in his portraits of Henry and the English Court , Similarly , the Flemish painter Hans Memlinc provides ample pictorial evidence of the passion for oriental rugs in the Netherlands and the Northern Europe . |
| 21 | From January 1990 famous exiles were no longer stripped of their Soviet citizenship : the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich , the opera diva Galina Vishnevskaya ( who was married to Rostropovich ) and the theatre director Yury Lyubimov were among the first to return as citizens . |
| 22 | Having raised quite unreasonably high expectations , the intellectuals were among the first to invoke God 's judgement against those very processes they had so recently emancipated from God 's direct intervention . |
| 23 | It could be that your ancestors were among the first to abandon the idea of hunting and gathering in favour of cultivation and husbandry . |
| 24 | Two ambulancemen , Mr Alan Woods and Mr Rob Lloyd of Putney Ambulance Station , who were among the first to arrive at the scene of the disaster a year ago , watched the morning trains speed by . |
| 25 | The late-night satirical shows such as Not So Much a Programme , More a Way of Life and That Was the Week That Was ( TW3 ) were among the first to cause the NVALA concern . |
| 26 | When the exodus of children from Germany and Austria began , they were among the first to respond . |
| 27 | The Greek philosophers were among the first to grapple with language . |
| 28 | Beetles had fed on the pollen of cycads and they were among the first to transfer their attentions to the early flowers like those of magnolias and waterlilies . |
| 29 | American firms were among the first to confront a national mass market since the market for consumer goods was huge , the whole of the country being a free trade area for business firms . |
| 30 | Renault , for example , pioneered extension of annual holiday rights in France ( Anastassopoulos 1981 : 109–11 ) , while state industries were among the first to introduce ‘ contrattazione articolata aziendale ’ ( i.e. formal plant level bargaining ) in Italy in the early 1960s ( Martinelli 1981 : 94 ) . |