Example sentences of "[be] the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sticking-point seemed to be the Burmese demand for the Frontier areas to be brought into the constitutional process . |
| 2 | A fierce aunt shocked me by telling me shyness is a form of rudeness and selfishness , and that I had to be the first to talk to two people . |
| 3 | Sometimes an expedition under orders from the Sibirskii prikaz ( Siberian Department ) in Moscow would be the first to penetrate into a region ; at other times hunters and traders would investigate a new river system on their own , later reporting their success to the local military governor ( voevoda ) , who would then penetrate the region asserting government control over the inhabitants . |
| 4 | you 'd be the first to say to her |
| 5 | Grant and Larsen would be the first to go into action , their mission to break into the house itself , having penetrated the enemy territory via a gap cut in the fence . |
| 6 | They will be the first to go in a slump . |
| 7 | This litter , born on 5 December 1965 , was to be the first born in Victoria and was registered under the Heatherglen prefix . |
| 8 | Obviously if you have family living near enough , they would be the first to turn to for help of this kind . |
| 9 | And when those bombs start falling he 'll be the first to dive into it . ’ |
| 10 | If British evidence is anything to go by it is often large and relatively dated production units that tend to be the first to close in periods of rationalisation . |
| 11 | Sir : The Archbishop of Canterbury would be the first to agree with you ( 2 October ) that personal generosity is a Christian duty . |
| 12 | The exchange/refund scheme is thought to be the first offered by a major manufacturer in the UK and relates to all new cars sold to retail customers from last Tuesday . |
| 13 | Although the Somerset levels is one of the strongholds of the country 's 3,000 barn owls , the pair were believed to be the first to breed in Avon for six years . |
| 14 | POLAR adventurer David Hempleman-Adams has set off leading a five-man British team attempting to be the first to walk to the north geomagnetic pole without dogs or air-drops . |
| 15 | Initially , while the UK catches up with countries such as Canada [ there are 30 filling stations in Toronto alone ] it is likely to be the depot-based high mileage fleets that will be the first to benefit from NGV technology . |
| 16 | It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change . |
| 17 | London-based Ideal Business Solutions Ltd claims to be the first to market with an 80486DX 66MHz notebook computer , the EPS-486 : the machine has a 10″ active matrix colour display , PCMCIA slot , 4Mb of memory , 128Mb of RAM , a removable 200Mb hard disk , and a portable expansion unit , housing three 16-bit expansion cards ; it weighs 6.4 lbs and costs a phenomenal £2,000 . |
| 18 | Director of OEM and technology licensing for IBM 's advanced workstations and systems division , Lucian Bifano said ‘ Since the [ PowerPC ] agreement with Motorola and Apple 18 months ago , we speculated on who would be the first to market with a product ; we certainly did not expect it to come four months after our October announcement of the first silicon ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Which of you vermin wants to be the first to burn in hell ? ’ |
| 20 | If I was injured , he 'd be the first to come to my aid . |
| 21 | Males compete mainly , say Packer and Pusey , by trying to anticipate oestrous in a female to be the first to consort with her . |
| 22 | But she did n't want to be the first to speak to him , and he never looked at her . |
| 23 | ‘ The neighbouring countries would be the first to suffer from more general sanctions against South Africa , and for very understandable reasons have not imposed them themselves . ’ |
| 24 | A £1.9M grant to supply three duck processing plants to China — believed to be the first supplied by a British company — has been awarded by the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 25 | Believe me , when I do n't want you prying into my life you 'll be the first to know about it . |
| 26 | We were not the first and I am sure we will not be the last to respond to financial pressures by selling off rare books . |
| 27 | They were to be the last to escape from the Teeth of the Storm . |
| 28 | No 86 MEFS at Bloemspruit will continue to train for those bound for Daks and bigger transports and is tipped to be the last to convert to the ‘ new generation ’ Dakota . |
| 29 | We would be the next to follow in the great man 's footsteps . |
| 30 | Such areas also tend to be the cheapest to get into . |