Example sentences of "[be] [art] first [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action was to have been the first brought under the Czech Republic 's software piracy laws . |
| 2 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 3 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 4 | Countries where prices have tumbled like our own have been the first to benefit from the spark in the market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change . |
| 7 | Sir Robert Carey , Warden of the English Middle March , had been in London visiting the queen , but had prudently arranged for relays of horses to be ready for him between the capital and Edinburgh , so that he could ingratiate himself with the King of Scots by being the first to arrive with the news that he was now King of England also . |
| 8 | With the race being the first nominated for the Commonwealth Games panel to ride , the 80-strong field contained a big 21 contingent of top riders and they closely marked each other for most of the race . |
| 9 | Just as the believer in Christ seeks to rise through the historical Son of man to the Son of God , so also in scripture the literal sense is the first rung on the ladder to the eternal spiritual meaning . |
| 10 | That is the first rung on the ladder of karate learning for the black belt . |
| 11 | 4.1 The period of the licences shall begin on the date of this Agreement and end on whichever is the first to occur of the following : |
| 12 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 13 | Mina was the first to leave for the fields . |
| 14 | Arabella Buckley was the first to recover from the shock of that strange outpouring . |
| 15 | Despite claims made by Henry Faulds , who was the first to publish on the subject , the importance of Herschel 's contribution is generally recognized . |
| 16 | Cargo discharged from the vessel Ruth-W was the first handled by the new CCL terminal . |
| 17 | The desire to establish that one was the first to arrive with the finding , and the priority disputes which are part of the scientific game , are testimony to the point . |
| 18 | Loretta was the first to arrive at the restaurant . |
| 19 | Leamington Spa , the 17th largest society in 1990 , was the first to exit from the market via a merger after declaring a loss . |
| 20 | The soldier was the first to die along the Syrian-Israeli border since 1975 . |
| 21 | The aircraft was the first salvaged from the Soviet Union to arrive in the UK . |
| 22 | He was the first to emerge from the water , partly because he had an appointment with Rose , partly because he could see Araminta leaving . |
| 23 | My name was the first to go on the Dux board in the school hall of the brand-new , glass-walled building only just completed the year before . |
| 24 | Designed to minimise deforestation of primary rainforest by planting tree farms for use by commercial timber companies , the project was the first approved by the World Bank 's private-sector arm , the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) using GEF funds . |
| 25 | Resolution 686 was the first passed by the UN Security Council on the Gulf crisis since that of Nov. 29 , 1990 [ Resolution 678 — see p. 37870 ] , which had provided the authority for the military action of the US-led coalition forces launched on Jan. 16 [ see p. 37934 ] . |
| 26 | Indeed , Jennens was the first to speak about the financial aspects of the project . |
| 27 | It was Metzinger who , in his Note sur la Peinture of 1910 , was the first to write of the fact that Picasso and Braque had dismissed traditional perspective and felt free to move around their subjects , studying them from various points of view . |
| 28 | Sara ( Brinkley Dream Come True to Palamine ) was the first to win at the world famous show when , in the 1986 , she was judged best the in the Post Graduate class . |
| 29 | Morgan was the first to learn of the Armistice in the trenches , where he intercepted instructions from the German GHQ ordering the generals to lay down their arms . |
| 30 | But Pinsent was the first to concede after the comprehensive three and a half lengths reverse : ‘ The best team won . |