Example sentences of "be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am the first to admit that it is not easy , although I do wonder why we in tennis still use that argument as an excuse for not seeing what the Americans call ‘ minority ’ players more prominent in the British game . |
| 2 | I am the first person to admit that success is not that frequent at Athletico and on those rare occasions when it comes we are always left with a nasty aftertaste to spoil it . |
| 3 | I am the first musician in my family . |
| 4 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 5 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
| 6 | I do not suppose I am the first naive monolinguist who thought he could pick up the language on the street , somehow acquiring it passively just by basking in the babble of the market , like getting a tan . |
| 7 | I am the first living contact to consult , Coffin thought , lying back in his hard bed under Mrs Lorimer 's roof . |
| 8 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 9 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 10 | Sister Cooney had been the first to hint it to him . |
| 11 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 12 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 13 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not be able to survive the revolutionary climate of popular anger . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 16 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 17 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 18 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 19 | Property developers have been the first to suffer , with credit lines cut off , interest costs rising and prices beginning to slip . |
| 20 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 21 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 22 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 23 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 24 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 25 | There will always be the question as to what would have happened if the last remedy had been the first prescription but in my experience that 's the sort of question homœopaths ask rather than patients ! |
| 26 | Liveseys ' would only ever have been the first rung of the ladder , to him . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 28 | This lass had been the first cause of Eachuinn Odhar thinking of an alliance with the Campbells ? |
| 29 | Boyle had been , with one short break , continuously in Government office for eleven years and was to be the last Minister of Education , as Butler had been the first . |
| 30 | The great hero Rodrigo del Bivar — El Cid — had been the first person to use the weight of heavily armed cavalry against the more lightly clad Moors . |