Sentence examples for earliest to be from inspiring English sources
The iron and steel industry there was one of the earliest to be established in China.
Joseph Boillot's lavish book of zoomorphic caryatids is one of the earliest to be printed from both moveable type on the letterpress and copperplates on the rolling press.
Among the earliest to be built, in 1928, was 135 Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights, at the park's northern tip, across from the Brooklyn Museum.
One of the earliest to be discovered was tetracarbonylnickel, a volatile nickel compound that became the basis of a process for purifying nickel.
Two of the earliest to be opened for public use were People's Park in central Shanghai and Huangpu Park on the bank of the Huangpu River.
There seemed from the earliest to be an uneasiness and a lack of conviction among the players of both sides, hardly surprising since they had met at the same venue just two weeks before.
(Three days earlier, to be sure).
Two days earlier, to be precise.
