Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adj] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | In these 239 murals , covering a surface of 1,585 square metres , there are traces of many influences making up a popular and forceful imagery : ‘ The codices , pre-conquest sculpture , popular art , the study of living people , the colour of nature as well as the paintings of the misnamed Italian Primitives , together with the modern artistic tendencies to which Rivera himself had contributed during his stay in France , all went to form his own peculiar style , which is apparent for the first time in these frescoes . ’ |
| 2 | Longman had a very , very er , very good increase in profits and the Addison Wesley loss , which is bigger in the first half than usual er , is n't something that bothers me particularly , I 'm really quite relaxed about full year performance , but just to make sure they 're er , attacking erm , expenses , travel , administration , that kind but nothing in the erm , book investment programme . |
| 3 | However , in Amphioplus there is a more or less superficial second papilla next to the infradental papilla which is homologous with the first oral tentacle scale . |
| 4 | Er , the this generator er ran into some development difficulties er a while ago and er Eurofighter chose , say I say , a a standby or an alternative generator which is suitable for the first three prototypes and er again the cost of that particular delay will fall to industry . |
| 5 | The expansion of dictionary definitions does not appear to provide any further useful information than that which is available at the first level . |
| 6 | Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year . |
| 7 | Also , 50% of the teenagers have an estimated hazard which is larger after the first three months , although more than half have a larger estimated reservation wage in the second period . |
| 8 | Freud 's view here is Comtean ; he thinks in terms of three stages for the progress of civilization , beginning with the animistic phase , to which modern obsessional or paranoid neurotics regress , going through an intermediate phase of religion , which is different from the first because people give the powers and omnipotence to gods , and not to themselves as they do in the magical phase of animism . |
| 9 | In terms of your research on the the action book itself , or th , or the reports or whatever you said , sorry , there 's nineteen on the first floor you say ? |
| 10 | Hair is always on show and it 's one of the first things to suffer from the effects of poor diet , pregnancy , the menopause and stress . |
| 11 | It 's one of the first ones and it sounds really good . |
| 12 | Another point : the intruder who has been denied a quick escape route is unlikely to remain in the house for very long ( it 's one of the first things he sizes up after breaking in ) . |
| 13 | It 's one of the first things you have to face up to . |
| 14 | It 's one of the first meets of the season . |
| 15 | Implicitly it is consistent with the first stage of a two-stage budgeting procedure , with investors initially deciding on the level of investment in a particular location and then determining the asset allocation of that investment . |
| 16 | unc It is apparent from the first that the vector elements are changing sign ; so we do not reduce a homologous element to unity ( though in general we might periodically remove a power of 10 ) . |
| 17 | If the latter 's optical axis is parallel to that of the first crystal than the beam is totally transmitted , if it is perpendicular to the first optical axis none of the beam gets through . |
| 18 | It is one of the first operas I conducted when I went to Ulm . |
| 19 | It is one of the first of its kind and won the COMDEF award in 1991 for the most innovative software solution . |
| 20 | The generosity of machine knitters comes as no surprise to us — it is one of the first things one notices about them . |
| 21 | As it is one of the first international environmental GIS , the CORINE experience will be valuable in stimulating other , similar , projects and in providing experience on which other projects can draw . |
| 22 | But it is true of the first use , also . |
| 23 | It is identical to the first carriages provided for the W.C.J.S. and may well be one of them . |
| 24 | — This best selling program lacks nothing , it is obvious within the first five minutes of using the program that the author has listened to end users and their requirements . |
| 25 | It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments . |
| 26 | It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments . |
| 27 | Once LIFESPAN knows about its media types , available units and has some media items available for use ( ie. in State 2 ) , it is ready for the first Offline run . |
| 28 | He is working on the making of a crystal-wireless set ; he is one of the first men in Scotland to produce one at home . |
| 29 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 30 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |