Example sentences of "[be] the [num ord] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops .
2 It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change .
3 They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm .
4 No 86 MEFS at Bloemspruit will continue to train for those bound for Daks and bigger transports and is tipped to be the last to convert to the ‘ new generation ’ Dakota .
5 We would be the next to follow in the great man 's footsteps .
6 Taking in both Madrid and Barcelona , the four-day Spanish mission , supported by the Clydesdale Bank , will be the fourth undertaken by the SCDI .
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