Example sentences of "[be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be the first UN mechanism with a clear mandate to examine cases of detained prisoners of conscience anywhere in the world . |
| 2 | I cherished the ambition to be the first ( perhaps the only ) Italian writer to describe the Yiddish world . |
| 3 | This appears to be the first contradiction which the bishops later sought to resolve by withdrawing from the direct contact method . |
| 4 | The Harvest Holiday , as the report suggested , would be introduced in late October and would be the first of a series of changes to age-hold British holiday customs . |
| 5 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 6 | ‘ Would n't be the first time your husband 's come back when you did n't expect him , would it ? ’ |
| 7 | This will be the first time that an introduction to the range of MEDIA initiatives will have taken place in the city . |
| 8 | In most unintentional stalls , the stick position on the back stop will be the first symptom to be recognised . |
| 9 | Under the new régime we would be the first province to disenfranchise them . |
| 10 | It is the development of ‘ clear and practical standards for forest management ’ that will be the first aim of the new Forest Stewardship Council ( FSC ) . |
| 11 | That means it will be the first time abortion has been debated as part of government legislation , rather than on the basis of a private member 's Bill . |
| 12 | She will be the first woman in the award 's 10-year history . |
| 13 | This would be the first example of Community rules crossing the Atlantic . |
| 14 | It could be the first modern private toll road north of the border . |
| 15 | He said it would be the first of a series of ventures which Gooding was discussing with Japanese companies , aimed at bringing research and technology to Britain rather than just final assembly of goods . |
| 16 | Though its accounts of individual poems are as searching as anything in Davie 's earlier books ( we owe Carcanet a debt : this is to be the first in a uniform edition of Davie 's work ) , Under Briggflatts is also a mordant and compelling history of the social climates to which these poems were a response . |
| 17 | Sir : The Archbishop of Canterbury would be the first to agree with you ( 2 October ) that personal generosity is a Christian duty . |
| 18 | The Dutch are widely expected to be the first to try it . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | This will be the first time that the chief of the US central bank , effectively head-keeper of the capitalist conscience , has visited the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | ‘ We shall have to wait and see but Bobby Robson will be the first to hear , ’ Dalglish said . |
| 22 | The key thing appeared to be that Delander had fitted it with double wheel or duplex escapement — and it could be the first of the rare group of his clocks that include the feature . |
| 23 | If the Californian clubs progress it would be the first World Series — which starts on 14 October — between the two cities facing each other across San Francisco Bay . |
| 24 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 25 | ‘ We eat eggs all the time ; we 'd be the first to be affected . ’ |
| 26 | Rupert Murdoch told the annual meeting in Adelaide : ‘ This may well be the first year in some years when our earnings do not show their customary increase . ’ |
| 27 | Norrish was elected last May to be the first woman president of the 150-year-old club . |
| 28 | The animated film of the stories will be the first Western cartoon series to appear on Russian television . |
| 29 | The moves to stem wildcat stoppages , condemned by unions and the Labour Party and the independent Industrial Society — are thought to be the first time ministers have sought to legislate against the individual . |
| 30 | It will be the first time Michelozzo has tackled 1 ¼ miles , but he did win over a distance of 1 mile and 50 yards at Nottingham in April . |