The phrase "with the first being" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to express that something is the first of a series of items. For example, "I will discuss three important aspects of the topic, with the first being its historical background."
WrestleMania XXIV was the second WrestleMania to be held outdoors, with the first being WrestleMania IX, held in Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The method was designed such that both questionnaires would be implemented on the same day at the same health facility, with the first being administered by interviewers to caregivers of children aged <5 years and the second being anonymously completed by individual health workers.
Essentially, there are two stages of learning in Pluto's vision, the founder says, with the first being to engage kids in a game while they hear the songs, and the second being actually learning to play what they've heard.
Two oxidation processes are observed on all of the investigated electrode materials, with the first being assigned to the oxidation of iodide to triiodide (confirmed by UV/visible spectroscopy) and the second being attributed to the oxidation of triiodide to iodine.
In FBA simulations, g d splits into two kinds of reactions with the first being a distribution of metabolite d to the different microorganisms in the community and the second being different transport reactions, where each reaction represents transport of glucose to one organism [ 31].
The music psychotherapy process displayed two phases, with the first being emotionally more challenging than the second.
Casa outlined the three key steps to treating exertional heatstroke, with the first being quickly recognizing the signs and symptoms.
Thus the data form a tensor or datacube with three modes: the first being 6 experiments, the second being the 758 GeneIDs, and the third being the 69 GOs.
The film will be DuVernay's third collaboration with Oyelowo, the first being Middle of Nowhere, which won DuVernay a best director award at Sundance in 2012.
The reinvention of porcelain was the second time German ingenuity brought Europe up to date with China – the first being Gutenberg's revolution of the book.
Often he appeals to an analogy with light: the first being fills "all things like light cast over the universe.
