Example sentences of "[adj] be [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is far from the first time that the Fnac has made a widely publicised intervention claiming that discounting favours the interests of the consumer . |
| 2 | And this is one of the first points to note about children 's gun play . |
| 3 | that 's , that 's er I know that Mrs has asked er youngsters at the Minster School to write in , and obviously this is one of the first of those . |
| 4 | Under most circumstances this is one of the first stages in the preparation of material for pipette analysis . |
| 5 | And this is one of the first , on the first day , he was astonished to see , an older male baboon intervene in a fight between two younger ones and stop it . |
| 6 | Her data from Dudley , West Midlands , shows that this is one of the first Creole features adapted to . |
| 7 | This is usual for the first week after a strike but it would not surprise me if things began to happen later in the week . |
| 8 | The first action using any new technique is usually one of the most interesting , for the simple principles can be seen without any complications of secondary purposes or complicated gear , and this is true of the first beach reconnaissance at Rhodes . |
| 9 | This was one of the first serious attempts to record the real lives of ordinary working people . |
| 10 | This was one of the first disc records to be marketed in Britain . |
| 11 | Who knows , maybe it will appear with time , and by the end of the year we will be able to look back at Figure 2 and say that this was one of the first proofs of the existence of the W particle ? |
| 12 | Second , this was one of the first commercial recordings to feature the work of the young Wolfgang Sawallisch , at that time conductor of a provincial opera house at Aachen . |
| 13 | The radical simplification of forms which characterizes the painting can be accounted for by the fact that this was one of the first canvases in which Braque attempted to work from memory . |
| 14 | This was one of the first musical instruments ever made . |
| 15 | This was standard with the First Church . |
| 16 | This was well before the First World War . |
| 17 | But these are different from the first . |
| 18 | ( Note how one of these is identical to the first Tristan chord ( Example 102 ) , with the addition of the bass D. ) One peculiarity to be observed is the leap B-G from one substitution note to another in the melody . |
| 19 | A ‘ lie-in ’ of one to two hours but no more is permissible for the first day or so . |
| 20 | That 's wrong in the first place . |
| 21 | The last two are different from the first five visual elements in that , although they also convey information , they are not part of the interaction in the same way . |
| 22 | A total of $57 million is payable in the first year , with the remainder due over 20 years . |
| 23 | ‘ When I realised the ring had probably gone back to England that was one of the first things I checked . ’ |
| 24 | And that was one of the first jobs I I practically did on my own . |
| 25 | Er and you , you , you provided yourself with the uniform before you came as a student nurse so that was alright for the first year , so you 'd no uniform to provide . |
| 26 | Following this there may be discomfort on urination , and a vicious circle is started in which memory of previous discomfort combines with apprehension at the possibility of its recurring and perpetuates the nervousness or fear that was responsible in the first place . |
| 27 | This last is one of the first essentials of a true Suffolk ; for it was bred for use on the farm , and for use on the Suffolk farms in particular , where it was the custom for the horses to work a long day from 6.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. without nosebag or any break for rations . |
| 28 | US Air and Trade Show at Dayton , Ohio in 1990 was one of the first public appearances of the F-117A stealth fighter , it also saw performances by the MiG-29 , YF-22 and XV-15 . |