Example sentences of "but it [be] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 2 | It was also increasingly a city of white-collar and service workers , but it is the first category — manual workers in small manufacturing enterprises — that is best represented among the 161 fathers . |
| 3 | That is pretty obvious , but it is the first time the Najibullah government has said so . |
| 4 | But it is the first time that we have seen such a phenomenon on a large scale . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is the first time we have established formal procedures which ensure that we deliver and measure against set and agreed criteria . |
| 6 | But it 's the first day of the rest of my life when I get out there . |
| 7 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , fishing is my hobby , but it 's the first time I 've caught a squirrel . |
| 9 | But it 's the first time he 's broadcast to people OUTSIDE campus . |
| 10 | But it 's the first time a cell has been set alight since the brand new modern jail was opened . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ I know that getting the sack is an occupational hazard in football , but it 's the first time it has happened to me and it hurts . |
| 12 | But it 's the first time I 've ever known Mark 's to do a catalogue with their gifts in . |
| 13 | Well normally they 'd given them dressing gowns before but it 's the first time they 've had gowns is n't it ? |
| 14 | Catherine says : ‘ I do n't want to call Spartacus a stepping-stone , but it 's the first record people will hear from me and I think it 's a classy piece of work . |
| 15 | But it was the first drug generally recognized as life saving in tuberculosis . |
| 16 | I do n't know if it 's the sa I do n't think it 's the same one they have today but it was the first Land Rover that I can ever remember coming to the borders . |
| 17 | It was tense for a few minutes … but it was the first home game … and the first win at stake . |
| 18 | This was going to cause more problems than she 'd thought , but it was the first place to try . |
| 19 | But it was the first place they 'd owned together , after years of managing hotels for other people . ’ |
| 20 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 21 | In practice , she learnt to ski ; but it was the first time she had been away from her friends and family , the first time she had been on a plane , the first time she had been abroad , and she was desperately unhappy . |
| 22 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 23 | But it was the first time Saddam Hussein had ever offered to withdraw his troops from Kuwait . |
| 24 | But it was the first time these five principles had been drawn together and proclaimed specifically for the Gulf . |
| 25 | It was n't the first time Luke had contacted her since their sight seeing expedition — the flowers that by now she was coming to expect had arrived promptly next day , and with them a handwritten note — but it was the first time that she had heard his voice . |
| 26 | But it was the first time they had ever lived privately together . |
| 27 | ‘ Richard has done it before , but it was the first time I have abseiled down a mine-shaft and the last , ’ said John , of Whitton Close , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |
| 28 | The possibility of ending of National Service was not mentioned in these guidelines , but it was the first item on the agenda of subjects to be discussed , and it was seen in the Whitehall market-place to be the political ‘ Blue Chip' stock of the year . |