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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It is one of the first operas I conducted when I went to Ulm . |
| 13 | It is one of the first of its kind and won the COMDEF award in 1991 for the most innovative software solution . |
| 14 | The generosity of machine knitters comes as no surprise to us — it is one of the first things one notices about them . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But it is true of the first use , also . |
| 17 | It is identical to the first carriages provided for the W.C.J.S. and may well be one of them . |
| 18 | — 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 . |
| 19 | It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments . |
| 20 | It is inconsistent with the First and Fourteenth Amendments . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 25 | ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . " |
| 26 | Sheffield Wednesday 's chief goalscorer made it nine from 13 games in the defeat of QPR but later revealed he is happy for the first time this season . |
| 27 | What is necessary in the first instance is a shift in the surrounding social relations and economic conditions . |
| 28 | ‘ An inquiry whether anything and if so what is due to the first defendant for any and what costs charges and expenses properly incurred under or in respect of the said mortgage debentures and mortgages including the costs of this action . |