Example sentences of "[adj] is [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 | ( 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 . |
| 10 | A ‘ lie-in ’ of one to two hours but no more is permissible for the first day or so . |
| 11 | A total of $57 million is payable in the first year , with the remainder due over 20 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |