Example sentences of "[adj] [is] [adv] the first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For this is not the first such episode . |
| 2 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 3 | I think it is only fair to point out that this is not the first major development on the Ringdufferin Road . |
| 4 | Okay good now this is probably the first real go at doing pie charts that you 've had is n't it ? |
| 5 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 6 | This is why the first Christian believers were able to proclaim the good news about Jesus so fearlessly . |
| 7 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |