Example sentences of "[be] the first world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided he is not forced to drop them it may be that Gorbachev , ironically , could be the first world leader to actually reduce a country 's intelligence agencies on the grounds that there is less for them to do . |
| 2 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 3 | Oh yes it says this is the first world cup the new way of playing the qualifying rounds , this is the first world cup where every team has to play each other and it should mean the best sides make the semi-finals . |
| 4 | Oh yes it says this is the first world cup the new way of playing the qualifying rounds , this is the first world cup where every team has to play each other and it should mean the best sides make the semi-finals . |
| 5 | Among them is the First World War poet , Wilfred Owen , who wrote the following lines , under the title , ‘ The Parable of the Old Man and the Young ’ . |
| 6 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 7 | George Albert Smith was later of course erm to come on and make a big name , a world name for himself as the inventor of the first colour process , a very simple , two-colour process , but it was invented by him in Brighton , and it was the first world colour process . |
| 8 | The initial defence of his title was the first world championship held in Scotland . |
| 9 | In a nation which is as sports-crazy as Brazil , and which has produced a number of greatly distinguished drivers , of which Emerson was the first world champion , the interest is hardly surprising . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister was the first world leader to announce his intention to attend the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro this June . |
| 11 | Some have maintained that the Liberal Party was being rapidly undermined before the First World War and that its decline was almost inevitable , others , however , assume that it was the First World War which was responsible for the decline of a vapid Liberal Party — the divisions within Liberal ranks creating the political vacuum into which the Labour Party slipped . |
| 12 | It was the First World War because it affected most of the people of the world . |
| 13 | For Virginia Woolf , it was the First World War that broke something undefinable , something precious , in social intercourse : |
| 14 | The most popular suggestion is that it was the First World War , and in particular the huge sacrifices of men in the battle of the Somme and the other slaughters on the Western Front , which made the change of attitude , or rhetoric , necessary . |
| 15 | It was the First World War that finally killed off the " legion of Leagues " , but it had ceased to be a problem before 1914 . |
| 16 | And it was the First World War that killed him , he had a brain damage , you know a stroke . |