Example sentences of "[adj] [be] the first [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the first essential step towards practical project planning and development . |
| 2 | Event organiser Dave Sargeant said : ‘ This is the first major fundraising event on our calendar in what we hope will be a bumper year . |
| 3 | Project manager , Rob Bolt said : ‘ This is the first major rebuilding contract undertaken by a HAT and is a very different market for us , as construction managers . ’ |
| 4 | But this is the first major announcement of aid for the drug industry , apart from £9 million for biotechnology research last month . |
| 5 | But this is the first major study devoted to them , and the Chancery documents have provided useful supplementary material , including letters from performers and copies of contracts . |
| 6 | This is the first visible sign of a shareholders ' revolt against the chairman , Sir Derek Alun-Jones , since the discovery of a £185m fraud which threatens the group 's future . |
| 7 | As far as I am aware , this is the first homoeopathic book in birds . |
| 8 | This is the first predictive tool to appear that is based on the chemistry of the erupted lavas . |
| 9 | As this is the first Prime Minister 's Question Time since the Commonwealth conference , may I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his constructive and positive approach to the issues ? |
| 10 | Yet this is the first serious attempt to write about the revolution since the heyday of the early 1970s . |
| 11 | To our knowledge this is the first prospective study that has shown that bacterial pneumonia is associated with HIV seroconversion among intravenous drug misusers . |
| 12 | There is now a glimmer of hope … this is the first reasonable amount of water a pond in Blewberry has had for at least two years . |
| 13 | This is the first regional newsletter since 1988 when Rowan Callick , former editor of The Times of Papua New Guinea , edited WACC-PAC News . |
| 14 | Apart from winter fishing , this is the first real outing of the year , and always a super ritual for my father and myself . |
| 15 | The British and Irish teams was unsuccessful in this event , and this is the first international event not won by a British team for a very long time . |
| 16 | This is the first joint Fellowship established with natural scientists and ecologists from NERC . |
| 17 | This is the first joint report to be submitted to the House by the Select Committees on Social Security and on Health . |
| 18 | With a long journey ahead of me every morning and evening , I do n't hang about , and this is the first petrol-engined car I 've used that has given me over 45mpg on a run . |
| 19 | ‘ This is the first quantitative review of builders and the banks and the results are highly worrying ’ . |
| 20 | The Commission for Racial Equality has said that this is the first such ruling and extends the definition of unfair treatment , which may well influence other tribunals ' decisions in future . |
| 21 | It is believed that this is the first such interchange to be arranged between a British or a European social research group and one in the People 's Republic of China . |
| 22 | This time the communist threat has been absent ; this is the first general election in a major European country since the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall fell . |
| 23 | This is the first controlled trial of a bismuth enema preparation in patients with distal ulcerative colitis. 5-Aminosalicylic acid was used as the alternative treatment because it is one of the most effective topical treatments available . |
| 24 | To our knowledge , this is the first controlled trial to compare a polymeric formula enteral diet v steroids in the treatment of active Crohn 's disease . |
| 25 | Lord Fraser said : ‘ This is the first systematic research for a number of years on the operation of the hearings system . |
| 26 | It may be that this is the first post-modern war , not just because it 's ‘ screened ’ but because the consensus in the West for war appears to be reluctant . |
| 27 | Although this is the first recorded instance of a private undertaker being used by the royal household it is possible that they had been previously involved in some small way in royal funerals , for it is doubtful that the College of Arms provided coffins and it would seem probable that they contracted this out to the trade , to people such as William Russell — indeed , could it have been Russell who provided the coffin for Queen Mary in late December 1694 ? |
| 28 | As far as we know , this is the first detailed attempt to estimate the proportion of congenital abnormalities that are preventable . |
| 29 | This is the first big lesson to learn . |
| 30 | Telidon is already in use in several commercial view-data systems in Canada but this is the first big broadcast operation . |