Example sentences of "be [adv] [prep] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keegan said : ‘ I 've told players that if they are not in the first team here they can always impress somebody else . ’ |
| 2 | But you can see , you can see already that the production rate is no where near good enough to meet the programme and if it 's only on the first part of the seventh floor , bearing in mind we 've got to be working on three floors at the same time , we 're only on the first part of the seventh floor and already we 've got overlaps on day Granted , it 's a major problem . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've known just what sort of a woman you are ever since the first time I was unfortunate enough to meet you — though I confess I did n't realise even you could stoop quite as low as you have this time . ’ |
| 4 | Although they are not competing this year , Tatra trucks are usually among the first home in the gruelling Paris-Dakar rally . |
| 5 | They are still in the first flush of passion . |
| 6 | For those who came in late , the essay titles are up on the first year notice board . |
| 7 | Brothers and colleagues statistics show that the majority of car accidents are mainly within the first year of people passing their driving test . |
| 8 | Its restaurant and coffee bar are now on the first floor but once were on the ground floor where the bank is now . |
| 9 | Gloucester against Bridgend … that 's the game tonight … its more than a run out too … next week the cherry and whites are back in the first division fight at Northampton … but no chance of planning ahead six first teamers are missing |
| 10 | They must be all done or they would n't be down in the first place would they ? |
| 11 | One school of thought argued that mobile , offensive operations were no longer possible and future wars would be more like the first world war than the second . |
| 12 | Sunsoft Inc has admitted that a fully binary shrink-wrapped version of Solaris 2.0 on Intel wo n't be out until the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 13 | Support for DEC 's Alpha Windows NT will be out in the first quarter of 1994 . |
| 14 | The company , which was to have introduced a mid-range , 80486-based TC1000 series of fault-tolerant systems earlier this year ( UX No 378 ) , says they 'll also be out in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 15 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 16 | I hope to be back for the first leg with Manchester United . |
| 17 | He would be back in the first week of July and at home all month until they went to Scotland for the opening of the grouse shooting season on the twelfth . |
| 18 | Headingley saw a cracking match , and anyone lucky enough to be there on the first day is unlikely to have forgotten it . |
| 19 | Perhaps you only forgot things you did n't want to be there in the first place . |
| 20 | Presumably the Soviets that argued that these protesters should n't be there in the first place and they have the right to apprehend them if , if they want to ? |
| 21 | On the one hand opinion polls showed Chirac to be the right-winger most likely to be ahead on the first ballot of a presidential election , making the RPR anxious to win agreement on primaries . |
| 22 | But there are twelve fewer non-North American galleries this year , and forty-two dealers nearly twenty-five per cent of the fair are here for the first time . |
| 23 | And , most of all , Trent would like to have known why the photograph he had taken from Don Roberto 's house had been there in the first place . |
| 24 | The simple fact of the matter is that we should never have been there in the first place . |
| 25 | I know , you would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 26 | Of course , if I 'd really had any sense I would n't have been there in the first place . |
| 27 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | Well it is three hundred and twenty thousand pound that they 're paying to this person that should not have been there in the first place , he walked on there , he built places there without planning permission and I think if the council had played their cards right , they could have got him off without paying out this three hundred twenty thousand pound . |
| 29 | He succeeded in doing so , but confided afterwards that no single examiner thought me worthy of a first , but when the marks were added up , mine were within a few marks of those who were obviously in the first class , and so my name was added to the list of three others . |
| 30 | The Navigation Acts were not in the first instance devised to make up for the fact that some English revenue was devoted to colonial defence , but defending the colonies came to be seen as an integral part of the Old Colonial System . |