Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] be the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domitian 's decree was the first recorded attempt to reduce a European winelake . |
| 2 | His response to this development in O'Keeffe 's art was the first positive assessment of the result of the effort she had made to have her intentions as an artist redefined . |
| 3 | Saturday 's rally was the first real indication of how much support the workers have attracted . |
| 4 | Peter Thornton 's book is the first serious study of this vast and sometimes elusive subject and the fourth in a series of thematically non-sequential books from Weidenfeld and Nicolson initiated by Mr Thornton with his richly informative Authentic Décor : The Domestic Interior 1620–1920 . |
| 5 | Judge Carlos Cerda from the Santiago Appeals Court was investigating the disappearance of several leading Communists and Valenzuela 's testimony was the first solid proof that the security forces had been involved in kidnapping . |
| 6 | Nguyen Co Thach 's visit was the first official visit to the US capital by a high-ranking Vietnamese official since the unification of Vietnam in 1976 . |