Example sentences of "that [noun prp] be the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody knew that Eve was the first woman . |
| 2 | The LJV claimed that Rios was the first name on a " hit list " of 127 public figures whom it considered to be involved in corruption , prominent among whom were former President Jaime Lusinchi and his wife and former secretary Blanca Ibáñez . |
| 3 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 4 | The selection board said that Gerstner was the first person they had spoken to when they began their quest for a new chief in January . |
| 5 | I beg to differ with J Williams ( Letters NI 207 ) that Sunday is the first day of the week . |
| 6 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 7 | Writing in the mid-seventh century , probably in Burgundy , the chronicler known as Fredegar recorded the tradition that Priam was the first king of the Franks . |
| 8 | If I say that Wednesday is the first day of the week , they say , ‘ Yes , Sir , you are right ’ . |
| 9 | There is widespread agreement that Mark was the first Gospel to be completed and that he became a prime source of both Matthew and Luke . |
| 10 | He believed now , though this belief may have been a mythic smoothing of his memory , that Val was the first person his undergraduate self had spoken to , socially that was , not officially . |
| 11 | It is no surprise that Tanzania is the first country in Africa to introduce a less centralised and examination-oriented system of selection for secondary schools and that Zambia intends soon to follow suit , nor that Kenya and Ghana are much concerned with giving primary leavers the skill and the incentive to set themselves up as entrepreneurs when they leave school . |